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VideoCallsThatSell

A collection of 265 issues

Where's Your Zoom Aura?

'The reproduction of art cannot replicate its aura' I adore this concept. Since discovering it earlier in the century, I've cited it plenty. It emanates from Walter Benjamin, circa 1935. But that's not what (or who) is important here. The title of the essay

Unbridled Young Singer Expression

I sought out the music of Olivia Dean after seeing her ebullient all-too-brief interview from the Glastonbury Sunday. A bit mono-mellow, sadly not my thang. Yet her dialogue approach certainly is. A number of aspects struck me. Not least of which was how she maintained levels of bubbly interest despite

Half Of Global Firms To Reduce Office Space

"A survey of 350 multinational companies that together employ around 10 million staff globally found that 50pc are planning to reduce their office footprint. Most are looking to cut between 10pc and 20pc of space." How The Telegraph reported a recent survey by London-headquartered property brokers, Knight Frank.

Remember Teleconferencing?

Less than a working generation ago, we'd sit in meeting rooms with a strange device permanently stationed in the middle of the table. Its design aesthetic often resembling a 70s sci-fi movie birdseye view of an Atlantis lair. Squashed. With rounded tentacles circling outwards. Keypad and mini-screen protruding

Your Sales Figures In Danger Of Matching Zoom Share Price Performance?

Above is the online dailymail graphics team linegraph of Zoom's share price over the past 42 months. It accompanies current revenue stall at around $4½bn and profit growth deceleration down to maybe ~3pc. I think I can just about make out a trader tell of the '

Video Meeting Transcription

Just Say No. That sums up my experience of outbound video calls and the wave of 'AI' automated video meeting transcription services. Even with internal meetings, I've seen transcription cause disengagement. Google Meets has a remarkable live transcription. People tend to be amazed when first encountering

Sticky Note On-Screen Comms

There was no source attributed underneath this image's appearance on London broadsheet The Telegraph recently. Nor could Google Lens provide one. Which is a shame, 'cos it's a cracker. I embed/link to it above as for pretty much all video calls I run, I

What The Overarching Threat Is Not

Here follows a widely shared excerpt from a speech this week by a backbench Westminster MP, Miriam Cates. Denuded (as far as I safely can, given her stance appears "not popular on either the small government right or the culturally radical left"), of political horseshoe setting in order

Why Your Video Selling Is Not Unleashing Productivity Gains

Remember when personal computers made us so efficient we only had to work one day a week? AI will be like that. — Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) April 16, 2023 This tweet above is one of legion recalibrations on the measure of AI. Many such satire tends to riff on the Solow

Early Breakfast Radio on TV

How about some tips from the twilight? Above is presenter James Max from the London Bridge studios of Talk TV-stroke-TalkRadio. Twenty-seven minutes past five in the very much A.M. of Wednesday 3rd May 2023. He's doing a review of the day's newspapers. Having just snapped