by Rosemary Ravinal | Oct 4, 2021 | Video Conferences, Video Meeting Management
With video conferencing here to stay, remote workers fear that being “out of sight and out of mind” may jeopardize their career success. Similarly, being but one tile in the mosaic of faces during a meeting poses challenges when you want to be noticed and included in...
by Rosemary Ravinal | Sep 28, 2021 | Video Conferences, Video Meeting Management
Zoom fatigue entered our lexicon early in the lockdown. Dry eyes, neck pain, and dysmorphic disorder spiked as we overdosed on video conferences. In case you’re wondering, the latter symptom of video meeting exhaustion has to do with obsessive attention to perceived...
by Rosemary Ravinal | Sep 14, 2021 | Executive Communications, Video Conferences, Zoom Score
Video communication engages two senses of our five: sight and sound. But how can we stimulate the other three with the existing digital technology? We can do it through the memory of how things taste, feel and smell. Video calls favor what we see over what...
by Rosemary Ravinal | Sep 7, 2021 | Executive Communications, Video Conferences, Zoom Score
A female client in Colombia, a senior insurance executive, told me recently that she wears her favorite pearl necklace and a silk blouse every time she fires up her video to join a meeting. Another mid-level manager in healthcare with a dozen direct reports...
by Rosemary Ravinal | Aug 31, 2021 | Zoom Score
Why are you not you using a green screen when you Zoom? I ran an informal poll on LinkedIn this week and was surprised to learn that more than 80 percent of respondents do not use a green screen with a virtual background. That was disappointing but not...