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Article / Updated 02-19-2021
Like many apps and web-based services today, Zoom requires users to establish accounts online if they want to host meetings. If you're working from home as an independent contractor or freelancer, you need to create your online account.
Someone in your organization may have already created a Zoom account for you.
Zoom into the new world of remote collaborationWhile a worldwide pandemic may have started the Zoom revolution, the convenience of remote meetings is here to stay. Zoom For Dummies takes you from creating meetings on the platform to running global webinars. Along the way you'll learn how to expand your remote collaboration options, record meetings for future review, and even make scheduling a meeting through your other apps a one-click process.
Article / Updated 08-14-2023
This list provides some quick advice on getting started with Zoom, maximizing its benefits, and minimizing the issues that you experience with it. No, the following pages do not represent a comprehensive list of what to do and not to do, but I have condensed my suggestions into a snackable list. ©Cabeca de Marmore/Shutterstock.
Article / Updated 08-14-2023
Screen-sharing and annotation tools have been around for decades. In fact, if Zoom had failed to include these valuable features, many people would rightfully consider them glaring omissions, including yours truly.Meetings & Chat is more than up the task. You can share your screen with others and even allow them to control your computer’s mouse and keyboard.
Article / Updated 08-14-2023
No one forces you to enable video during your Zoom meetings. You can always join via audio only. Still, from time to time you’re going to want the world to see you. ©Toltemara/Shutterstock.com
Looking your best in Zoom
A seldom-used Zoom feature called Touch Up My Appearance purportedly helps smooth out the skin tone on your face.
Article / Updated 08-14-2023
As former president Dwight D. Eisenhower once astutely observed, “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” In the context of Zoom, convoking a spontaneous meeting makes sense in certain circumstances, especially when text-based communication just isn’t working. Taken to the extreme, though, any given person’s work life would be unmanageable and even downright chaotic if she couldn’t at least try to plan her days.
Article / Updated 08-14-2023
Just like in real life, you won’t always host a Zoom meeting. Sometimes you’ll participate in meetings with people from external organizations. Zoom makes it remarkably simple to join an existing meeting, whether you know the host’s PMI or the meeting’s URL.
Joining a meeting using the host’s PMI
Walter invites you to a meeting via email.
Article / Updated 08-03-2020
Developing a base understanding of Zoom’s core functionality will help you use the service intelligently What’s more, it minimizes the chance of committing a faux pas or, even worse, exposing yourself and others to security or privacy issues.
Zoom appropriately names its flagship service Meetings & Chat because it performs both functions — and admirably to boot.
Article / Updated 08-14-2023
Zoom calls its impromptu virtual get-togethers Instant Meetings or Meet Now. To start a meeting, launch the Zoom desktop client. Click on the Home icon and then on the New Meeting icon.You are now hosting a live, one-person Zoom meeting, as this figure displays. Zoom user interface during active meetings.Astute observers may notice several things about this figure.
Article / Updated 08-14-2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked devastation throughout the world; in February, 2020, companies and individuals began turning to Zoom as a way to continue conducting business meetings (from individual home environments) and to stay connected with friends and family. Even many televisions shows have adopted a Zoom format for interviewing guests.