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...
by Rosemary Ravinal | Jul 12, 2021 | Video Conferences, Zoom Score
When you are communicating your big ideas, persuading, and inspiring others, it is your voice that helps establish your authority and humanity. You have heard from me and others that 90% of what people communicate is visual. Hence the enormous benefit of video...
by Rosemary Ravinal | Apr 12, 2021 | Home Featured, Presentation Skills, Video Conferences, Zoom Score
Simple hand and arm gestures may be more effective than emoticons to improve engagement during Zoom meetings. Research from the University College London (UCL) in the UK shows that an intuitive set of hand signals can warm up the virtual meeting room and help...
by Rosemary Ravinal | Feb 1, 2021 | Presentation Skills, Public Speaking Tips, Video Conferences
Most of us are not tapping the power of body language when we speak on Zoom. When you consider that close to 90 percent of the information our brains process during video calls comes from visual data, the way we communicate non-verbally speaks...
by Rosemary Ravinal | Jan 11, 2021 | Executive Communications, Video Conferences, Video Meeting Management, Zoom Score
At the close of 2020, there are many lessons learned from a year on Zoom. And, what started as a short-term way of getting work done in our pajamas while children, roommates and pets frolicked behind us, has now become the workplace for the foreseeable future for many...