Best Ways to Collaborate Online in 2021

Category: Technology

Collaboration is a messy word. Everyone seems to call everything collaboration these days. After 18 months of pandemic and never-ending lockdowns, we have all been forced to adapt and survive. But, as we move into the new normal of constant hybrid and remote meetings, what works and what doesn’t? col·lab·o·ra·tion /kəˌlabəˈrāSH(ə)n/ Noun: the action of working with someone to produce or create something. By this definition, everything is a form of collaboration! Phone calls, emails, text messages, slack messages and everything in between can be considered as collaboration. But our world changed, and now remote meetings require a new definition for collaboration. What is Remote Collaboration? Re-mote col·lab·o·ra·tion /rəˈmōt/ /kəˌlabəˈrāSH(ə)n/ noun: the action of engaging with our remote audience to make them feel like something was done. How many of us really engage with our meeting participants and make them feel like they had a memorable experience? How many meetings do you remember from last month? If you are like me, everything is a gray blur, and you rarely remember anything that was said or done in a remote meeting. In fact, most of us forget 90% of what was said within 48 hours. What are the best practices to change this? Let’s break it down. What is the best video conferencing app? A great meeting starts with a great video conferencing app. What is ideal for you? Here are my personal experiences. At the end of the day, every platform will give you the same basic features. Great screen sharing experience, good camera quality and audio. But there are differences to their user experience. Zoom Zoom is a leader (and arguably the most high-profile of the pack) in the VU\UC industry, tackling unified communications with their cloud platform for video, audio conferencing, collaboration, chat, and webinars across all endpoints.