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Google Voice: nuova interfaccia e tornano le chiamate a tre
#Aggiornamenti #Android #App #Comunicazione #ConferenceCall #Google #GoogleVoice #GoogleWorkspace #InterfacciaUtente #iOS #MaterialDesign #Notizie #Novità #Restyling #TechNews #Tecnologia #UI #VoIP

https://www.ceotech.it/google-voice-nuova-interfaccia-e-tornano-le-chiamate-a-tre/

Busiest Day Ever

I can’t even tell you how busy this work day has been. I haven’t had a minute over the last four hours where I haven’t been on a conference call. It’s nuts. I have to go pee, and I need to eat lunch, and neither is an option right now and won’t be for a while.

Here’s a cat. I hope it helps.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54489460153/in/datetaken/

#Busy #Cat #conferenceCall #iphoneography #Kitty #meetings #photography #robin #work

Teams: I hate it from the bottom of my heart for everything that is wrong with it. But......2 amazing features that other chat applications do not have

1. Spatial audio: switches emphasis on right or left depending on where the speaker is on the dashboard so I do not need to search out to understand who is speaking
2. Call Hold: I can switch to another call which puts the current one on hold. This way I do not need to figure out which call I was on last.

#teams #microsoft #conferencecall

Network Fun

I had 15 minutes to go until a meeting with a customer. Not just any meeting, but a meeting where I was going to have to present something to them. Now I don’t talk to customers directly. It’s not in my job description. That being said, we’re all in this together and we are all one big happy team, and if the folks who usually do talk to the customers directly are tied up in other things I am happy to pitch in. Happy yes, stress free? Hell no.

The information I needed to present would, best case scenario, involve two, maybe three sentences and that was it. If they asked me questions I told the people I was covering for that I would panic quietly and then mumble responses until they stopped asking. I was kidding, of course. I didn’t expect any questions. I expected my speaking time to be wrapped up in a manner of seconds. Still… yikes.

Then that happy moment, about 15 minutes before the meeting… when our entire network went down. Oh… no… now what do we do??

I wasn’t going to be able to join the call… potentially neither was any of the other 50-70 or so people who were scheduled to represent my company… and we had no way of letting each other know, and no way of letting the customer know. What do we do?

One guy in my building who fortunately sits near me found a work around and yelled it out. Everyone else yelled it out too. I got onto the call with seconds to spare, then waited about 20 minutes for my turn to speak, then spoke my two sentences and asked for questions and there were none.

Oh, what a relief that was. Over and done.

After that I spent two hours on another meeting and now I am going to spend the next 90 minutes on yet another meeting. What a thrill! I just want to go home and go to bed.

#communication #conferenceCall #customers #fear #meeting #nerves #network #networkOutage #presentation #Stress #systems #videoConference #work #zoomMeeting

Handcuffed

We just had a really frustrating issue come up at work. The customer had access to their system locked down hard, for perfectly valid and acceptable reasons. They had issues with applications crashing and we couldn’t get in to see what happened. There were a slew of people from my company, the hardware vendor, and the customer on a conference call and we were all totally stumped. Then one of our tech guys and one of the tech guys from the hardware vendor started hammering away at it and they figured it out.

Sometimes this software support stuff can be incredibly frustrating, but when those frustrating moments get resolved… oh man is that satisfying. Even in a case like this where the folks who support my application ended up being innocent bystanders (the issue and the fix ended up having zero to do with us) it is still immensely satisfying.

Huge tip of the hat to the two guys who eventually worked it all out. As the commercials used to say, it’s Miller time*.

*It’s not Miller time for me. I don’t drink. The sentiment still works though.

#conferenceCall #customerService #customerSupport #frustration #satisfaction #satisfied #software #tech #technology #work

I downloaded #Jami to test it out but even though they state their communication are #P2P you still need to create an account and therefore connect to a server...

This is not what I want...

When the connection was bad we had all these P2P applications, now that the connection is good we do not have anything that is P2P anymore, perhaps for communication there is still #Briar but it looks to me a bit extreme: it is also one of those applications that once you use it quickly you have all the security agencies targeting you... 🤔

I can't avoid to think that P2P application were criminalized because inconvenient since authorities and governments can't shutdown distributed networks. Speaking of communication software today we have plenty of solutions that are challenging to each others to be most privacy oriented, but all rely on a centralized server, this means that governments and law enforcement — of any grade — have a single point of attack if they want silence or tracking down someone or the entire network.

The ones behind these projects will reply to me the reason for a centralized server is to provide the best service possible to their users/customers, and while this sound reasonable I think that I don't need the state of the art of the open source communication software that aims to compete to the proprietary counterparts, on the contrary I need a service that is managed by nobody, and it is resilient because distributed. I don't care about quality of service or performance, I care about freedom, sustainability and resiliency (intended as distributed network). These are the characteristic I would like to have for my messaging and conference software.

#freedom #freesoftware #instantmessaging #conferencecall #distributednetwork

The CEO of Netflix had a #ConferenceCall.

With reporters.

And no cameras.

To talk about transparency into viewer data.

Vulnerability is the new strength.

Conference calls are truly an innovative solution for so-called Zoom fatigue.

#Vulnerability #strength #Innovation #data #transparency #Netflix #collaboration

https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/12/12/netflix-releases-viewing-stats-for-nearly-all-titles-for-first-time.html

Somehow, we managed to dial into and collaborate via conference calls without this challenge.

Maybe there are other reasons for the under-stimulation?

#stress #fatigue #stimulation #collaboration #Zoom #ConferenceCall #culture #COVID19

Adam Grant
@AdamMGrant
Zoom fatigue is not burnout. It's boreout.
New study: when meetings are virtual,
we're not overwhelmed—we're
understimulated. Cardiac measures show
drowsiness, not stress.
The antidotes are common sense but not
common practice: fewer, shorter, more
interactive online meetings.

This is what we used to call a #ConferenceCall.

Make Conference Calls Great Again

#MCCGA

@lzg

I've just spent over 3.5 hours in #ConferenceCall and I have another one coming at 3pm. #WorkFromHome has its perks, but my ears could do with a little bit of rest 8-)

We have an hour-long Friday morning call. Everyone hates it. There’s rarely anything on the agenda yet the call somehow manages to drag out for most or all of the hour. I *HATE* unstructured calls like this.

So now I run a teams chat where we “wager” how long the call will go. Today’s had a 5 minute topic, we’re 31 mins in so far…

#CorpLife #Leadership #ConferenceCall

Here's an idea. At the start of every Teams call, we go around the room and tell everyone what our sweatpants look like.

#ConferenceCall #WFH

WES conference call out today - abstracts due 28/4/23 Join us in Glasgow next September! https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/bsa-work-employment-and-society-conference-2023/ #conferencecall #BSA #WES

How I feel at the end of another ridiculous Monday. But I still have one more #conferencecall. #CorpLife

If an audio-only meeting with many participants is from the Microsoft Teams region, then it’s classified as misery, otherwise it’s just a sparkling conference call.

#conferencecall #remotework #officehumor