For this Tuesday edition of the Remote Tools Blog, we want to make a different kind of statement.
This year, we have a lot to be grateful for. Our IT family is growing, we’re improving as professionals and as people, and we continue to be successful in providing the services the campus needs while at the same time taking care of ourselves and our emotional well-being.
We’re grateful for you: our readers and clients who keep us going. Thank you for your support and your camaraderie.
Thank you.
We’re all pros at conducting virtual meetings by now, but it never hurts to brush up on our skills! Here are five quick tips for you to incorporate into your meeting routine.
You’re at home — but this is still a professional venue! You may or may not have fuzzy socks on, but make sure at least your top half is presentable and isn’t distracting to your coworkers, students, or instructors.
Also, make sure to check your surroundings and, if possible, use a naturally well lit area (try not to have light behind you, because that can overwhelm your webcam).
Open the Zoom or Webex desktop app five to 10 minutes before your meeting, just in case the app needs to update. Nothing like needing to update your app and then being late to an important meeting.
This helps keep the background noise level down and prevents crosstalk. Of course, you’ll have to remember to unmute when you want to say something!
Before you press the “share” button when you need to have your coworkers see your screen, make sure any private or sensitive information is hidden and you have closed all the extra tabs you may have open.
You can be more visible during online meetings than you are in face-to-face settings, especially if coworkers and friends have their app set up to display everyone in the same panel (Hollywood Squares style). So pay attention to the meeting and stay focused — and definitely no eating.
There you have it: five tips for you to try out next time you’re on a video conference call. Subscribe for twice-weekly updates!
The following updates are now available:
Zoom: November 9, 2020 version 5.4.2 (58740.1105)
Webex: November 2020 version 40.11
For instructions on how to update your applications, visit the following support sites:
Make sure your applications are never more than a month out of date!
As always, visit our dashboard at MiamiOH.edu/ITStatus for up-to-date status information on your favorite Miami applications.
This update is for the group of folks in the Miami IT Slack instance. The Zoom plug-in has been enabled in Slack by our administrators, and you can now go zooming right along straight from the window you use the most.
Check out this helpful video for information on how to use the plug-in.
The Miami University IT Services Diversity Committee is excited to invite you to our November event: DEI in IT with Cisco’s Trey Boynton.
Trey is the Global Lead, Inclusion and Collaboration Strategy and Alignment for Cisco Systems. For nearly 20 years, she worked in equity and inclusion at the University of Michigan.
She shifted to the tech industry in 2017 at Duo Security as their first head of diversity and inclusion. In her current role at Cisco, as the Global Lead for Inclusion Strategy & Alignment, she delivers on inclusion promises at scale.
The conversation will take place Thursday, November 5, from 2 to 3 pm. You must register to attend this event.
For more information and to register, visit the IT News site.