Master of Zoom 🤠 and Free Tickets 🎫 - Issue #13

Hi y'all 👋

What is your favorite music right now?

Mine is this 🔥 set by Joseph Ray.

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Today's issue includes:

🎥 Zoom Tricks

🤠 The Master of Online Meeting Facilitation

🎫 Free Tickets for My Friends and Fam

Running Zoom Meetings: Breakout Rooms, System Audio, and Artifacts

On Monday I hosted my first public office hour with ~10 participants.

Not all roses, but some bright lights.

My main takeaways 👇

#1 Breakout Rooms Add Magic

Breakout rooms allow you to split a zoom session into 50 separate rooms.

Example: 100 participants -> create 10 breakout rooms -> = 10 rooms a 10 participants.

Why do it?

• Break up the monotonous flow of a presentation
• Add an interactive element for the participants
• Encourage participants to network and collaborate in smaller groups

People learn by doing and solidify their knowledge by sharing with others.

I should have done more breakout rooms.

I only did one. ☹️

#2 Music Eases the Mood

In Zoom you can also just share your audio.

Cool applications of music are:

• When participants join at the beginning of the meeting
• When participants return from breakout sessions
• When participants are asked to ideate/work on a task on their own (example: set timer to 3 minutes and let music play in the background)

🚨 If you plan to record your session you have to make sure that you don't infringe on anyone's IP via playing copyrighted music.

My solution: play creative commons music libraries like Lofi Radio 24/7.

Shoutout to my mate Alberto for the pointer.

#3 Artifacts Add Value

At the end of the session I shared something that participants could take with them: my personal documentation for the session

Why?

It adds more context/information than could be discussed in 60 minutes + adds value.

It includes:

• Detailed content outline of the presentation
• Meeting cost calculator for remote teams
• Links to further reading
• Best practices for remote team meetings
• Meeting preparation checklist

If you are interested, I'm happy to dive deeper into it in the coming weeks. 🤔

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Bottomline: A couple of good learnings but much room for improvement.

I will continue doing public office hours. Stay tuned.

Here is my documentation about my Zoom learnings 👇

The Master of Online Meeting Facilitation

My shoutout this week goes to Cam (yes, that's his actual name).

I'm lucky enough to have had a handful of sessions with Cam Houser - entrepreneur by day and uni professor by night.

During our sessions he shared some of his best insights:

• ALF Technique (= audio/lighting/framing) for good video quality
• PIBS Technique (= prompt/ideate/breakout/share) for good meeting facilitation

If you spend a lot of time in Zoom you should follow this man.

Here's a sample of his work 👇

YouTube

I learned most of the good Zoom stuff from him.

Also, he's just an all-around good dude. 🤠

You Can Get Free Conference Tickets From Me

OnDeck is hosting a learning conference next week.

Some killer speakers sharing their knowledge in 3 tracks:

• Personal Development
• Professional Development
• Organizational Development

This is a link to the conference 👇

The On Deck Learning Conference 2021 - Jun 09 | Hopin

Get tickets to The On Deck Learning Conference 2021, taking place 06/09/2021 to 06/11/2021. Hopin is your source for engaging events and experiences.

Tickets are usually $149 but since I'll be speaking on Wednesday I have a friends & family discount.

🚨 Please send me an email if you want to attend and I'll get you in for free. 🚨

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Stay happy, stay healthy 🙌

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