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VideoCallsThatSell

A collection of 246 issues

Great Return Concept Creep

How does the fact that WFH as a mandated activity is ending, eventually lead to demise of video calls from the office? The snap above was widely shared this past week. Taken by a government minister appalled at the total absence of civil servants in this public sector office space.

Zoom Panes; Pt 4 Windows

"windozsh" Here I try to curate unusual examples of windows as video backdrops from rolling news slots. The general rule though, is for our business calls to avoid window intrusion as much as possible. Let's start with a rare sighting of night-time window on the world, courtesy of a music

Zoom Booths; Pt 3 Cars

Hello Road Warriors. For many years we've been phoning from our motors. Can we now do the occasional video call from our treasured vehicles too? Well. The answer - provided we are not actually driving at the time - could be found from these examples. Perhaps then, the right place

Zoomscapes so far of the 20s; Pt 2 OBs

Outside Broadcasts. You ever been on a telephone conference call when outside? Then you'll know the travails of pressing the number for the 'mute' key when you want to toggle between your vital utterings. Else the whistling wind, street bustle or car engine surrounding you will make everyone mad with

Video Cellscaping Tips From Clips; Pt 1 Bookcases

The first in my review series of our two years of mass zoomin' self-portrayals should appeal to those for whom the twitter feed of Bookcase Credibility [https://twitter.com/BCredibility] became indispensable, whilst it ran. > "What you say is not as important as the bookcase behind you." Wise words indeed,

8 Things Creatives Showed Us About Our New Videolink Epoch

> pic.twitter.com/o7fWqgdWdt [https://t.co/o7fWqgdWdt] — Cursed Commercials 📺 (@CursedAds) March 5, 2021 [https://twitter.com/CursedAds/status/1367688902409084929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Don't be like Coffee Steve. There's been plenty of promo piggybacking on WFH zoom calls. Above is one example, from a US coffee brand. > 'when your

You Don't Need To Spend A Grand, Unlike Adele

The snippet above links to a bookshop 'mole', confiding Adele's approach [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10679869/EMILY-PRESCOTT-Adele-spends-1-000-Chelsea-book-splurge.html] to curating her zoomscape. In short, she wants a certain style of backdrop for videoing from home. Decides she needs books behind her. Nips down to a fancy bookstore. Spends

Spring Statement Speech Sorter

Perhaps the most underused function in slideware is the ability to see all your slides at once in thumbnail. Known variously as the slide sorter view (Powerpoint), light table (Keynote) or grid view (Google Slides). It's where you can truly gauge the flow of your precious presentation. Measure how the

Old School Work Check Grade A Zooming

The geek in me loves screen-sharing, annotating multi-access docs and using apps such as online whiteboarding. Yet I constantly find myself urging those in video meetings to mix it up a little bit. I was privy to a meeting with around a dozen attendees. The 'host' was in effect, checking

Comic's Big Top Needs

Here's the final paragraph from a London broadsheet pr interview promoing the upcoming stand-up tour of Dylan Moran. > "He gets out a sheet of paper and asks me what I want from comedy. “I want a lot,” he says, “I want redemption. I want to be saved. I want to