The Online Meeting Survival Guide

Survive and thrive in shared online work environments with the Online Meeting Survival Guide by author Paul Richards. This book will bring you up to speed on the latest online communication and collaboration technologies available to increase your personal and professional productivity capabilities. Familiarize yourself the world's most popular online meeting technologies, and learn how to use the most effective features these solutions have to offer. From unified communications, to collaboration and online meeting solutions, this book is a welcomed tour of the world's best software solutions along with a guide on practical use. Part one of this book, looks at the online communication space from a high level to help you better understand modern communications and online workspaces. In part two, business leaders and managers alike can take a deep dive into the top online communication solutions such as Google Meet, Facebook Rooms, Skype, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom. Part three, is all about productivity and best practices for making the best use of online communications. Finally, you will be presented with a forward thinking perspective of where online communications are headed. When is a webinar better than a meeting? How does live streaming fit into your sales and marketing plan? When is collaboration counterproductive and how can your teams meet more effectively. Richards draws from Joseph Pine's Experience Economy, Jonah Berger's Invisible Influence, Morten Hansen's Collaboration!, and Malcolm Gladwell's Tipping Point to apply research of top authors to meeting productivity in a way that can make deploying online communications for any business more effective.