Podcasts about online collaboration

John Reynolds52 years oldBorn and raised in New Jersey, moved to North Carolina in 2017Married to Andrea for 28 years3 kids 24 / 22 / 20Faith: Roman CatholicCareer: Currently Vice President, Technology for a small Online Collaboration consulting firm, Social Edge Consulting. 12-year-old company been there 11 years.Joined F3 March 8 2021 @ Mamba Monday, EH'd by Special KFounding Site Q @ Lightkeepers in my neighborhood, a 7AM Tuesday bootcampCOMZ Q and 2nd-F Q 2023 on SLTNation Q of Maps 2022-2023Nantan 2024 (current)

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Welcome to Two Minds today! In the dynamic realm of online work, mastering effective virtual communication is paramount for success and productivity. Join us as in this episode as we delve into three vital aspects that can enhance and up your online work dynamics. First, we unravel the significance of concise communication, where the art of conveying ideas simply and concisely can make all the difference in grabbing attention. Next, we uncover the transformative power of personal introductions, setting the stage for not just connections, but lasting relationships in the digital sphere. Lastly, we expertly navigate the intricacies of seamless time zone synchronization, a crucial skill for fostering successful remote collaboration across global borders. Get ready to elevate and enhance your online work prowess with insights that truly matter for today's interconnected world!

Unleash your inner digital nomad with today's episode of the Dark Horse Entrepreneur Podcast, 'The Digital Jungle: Mastering the Art of Online Collaboration and Fair Play.' Discover how the laws of the jungle apply to the world of digital marketing and learn to navigate this landscape like a pro.   As, we delve into the importance of recognizing your role in the digital ecosystem. Whether you're the lion leading the hunt or the fox contributing to a larger cause, understanding your position is key to success. We also explore the art of rewarding fairly, a crucial strategy for building strong, successful collaborations in the digital world.   But that's not all. We've got a third, game-changing insight that's guaranteed to revolutionize the way you approach your digital marketing efforts. Curious? You'll have to tune in to find out.   So, are you ready to conquer the digital jungle? Listen to 'The Digital Jungle: Mastering the Art of Online Collaboration and Fair Play' now, and take the first step towards becoming the ultimate digital entrepreneur. #DigitalMarketing, #OnlineCollaboration, #FairPlay, #DigitalNomadLife, #RecognizeYourRole, #RewardFairly, #Entrepreneurship, #GlobalDigitalMarket, #CollaborationSuccess, #DigitalEcosystem #ParentEntrepreneurs #DigitalNomadLife #WealthCreation #DanKennedy #MindsetMatters #BusinessGrowth #SideHustles #WorkLifeBalance #FinancialIndependence #EntrepreneurialJourney #SuccessMindset #BusinessTips #Entrepreneurship #BusinessStrategy #EntrepreneurLife #BusinessSuccess #Motivation #Inspiration   #makemoneyonline #businessideas #digitalnomad #passiveincome #escapethe9to5 #quityourjob #entrepreneurship #digitalmarketing #socialmediamarketing #contentmarketing  

Join our resident Business Ninja Jamie together with Vincent Forese President of Link-Systems International, they provide integrated technology and service solutions to educators in order to improve the quality of education and ensure student success.LSI is a market-leading educational technology company whose student-centered suite of interoperable products and services is currently producing measurably better learning outcomes and increased retention rates in hundreds of K-12 schools, higher-ed institutions, and academic support organizations throughout the world.LSI is the leader in providing integrated technology and service solutions to educators in order to improve the quality of education and training, ensure student success and retention, and provide affordable education to students, workers, and their families. Founded in 1995 and based in Tampa, Florida, LSI has long been at the forefront of innovative online instructional resource development. They are the first educational technology company to offer a high-quality, one-on-one online tutoring service that covers virtually every subject area and can be accessed on an anytime/anywhere basis. They are the first to integrate into their online tutoring process a proprietary, state-of-the-art whiteboard specifically designed for online learning environments. And no other educational technology company has gone to greater lengths than LSI to ensure that its web-based applications can be easily integrated with one another and can operate compatibly with virtually every Learning Management System.Learn more about them and visit their website http://link-systems.com/-----Do you want to be interviewed for your business?  Schedule time with us, and we'll create a podcast like this for your business:  https://www.WriteForMe.io/-----https://www.facebook.com/writeforme.iohttps://www.instagram.com/writeforme.io/https://twitter.com/writeformeiohttps://www.linkedin.com/company/writeforme/https://www.pinterest.com/andysteuer/Want to be interviewed on our Business Ninjas podcast? Schedule time with us now, and we'll make it happen right away! Check out WriteForMe, more than just a Content Agency! See the Faces Behind The Voices on our YouTube Channel!

In May 2022, an academic research paper titled “Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation” was published in Nature (one of the most prestigious scientific publishers). They tested how the transition from in-person to online interaction affected innovation (measured by collective idea generation) and concluded that video calls were bad for brainstorming.The media derived: “Zoom is a creativity killer.”But, as (online) facilitators, we have first-hand experience with remote teams' creativity and effective collaboration. But, we haven't had hard evidence proving the study wrong.My guests on today's bonus episode, Elise Keith (CEO of Lucid Meetings, Author and Meeting Innovator) and Dave Mastronardi (CEO of the Gamestorming Group) have the ambition to test the hypothesis that online work killed creativity through a global mega experiment. As they kick off the project with a Symposium, Elise and Dave joined me to share their vision, drivers and open questions.Listen to this episode to find out about:The definition of creativity and how to measure itHow the project came to beThe bigger vision behind the project: How online collaboration can tackle global challengesHow you can get involved in the experimentDon't miss the New Rules for Work Experiment and SymposiumVisit the New Rules for Work WebsiteAnd, don't miss the next episode: subscribe to the show with your favourite podcast player.LinksWatch the video recording of this episode on YouTube.Read the Article published in ‘Nature'Read about the studyWatch the Youtube video: Why video calls are bad for brainstormingConnect to Elise and Dave:Connect to Elise on LinkedInConnect to Dave on LinkedInSupport the showCheck out the podcast map to see the overview of all podcast episodes: https://workshops.work/podcast-map

In this episode, we focus on the 21st Century Work Life podcast: how it's evolved and what it could cover in the future. And our guests have come wise words for you, our listeners. 00.00 mins Pilar shares how the show has evolved over the last 100 episodes. Some of the episodes she mentions are: episode 209 The Journey of the Remote Leader, episode 263 “Remote” is not the Only Challenge, episode 282 Asynchronous Facilitation and Online Collaboration, episode 286 The Challenges of Adopting Asynchronous Communication. 09.05 mins Bree and Pilar talk about the Connection and Disconnection in Remote Teams series and how the conversations around remote work in general changed during the pandemic. 15.39 mins We hear some general suggestions from guests about what they'd like a podcast like ours to cover in the future. Tim Burgess is first, he's been leading a distributed company for a few years - he would like to hear more “secrets” from people who are in the remote space. Then we hear from Theresa Sigillito Hollema, who as a guest has talked about leading global teams, her speciality. She's interested in the psychology of working away from each other. Theresa refers to My Pocket Psych, so its from its host, Dr. Richard MacKinnon, who we hear from next. He's also appeared on this show as guest, and as part of the Connection and Disconnection series. He would like the show to cover the “how to” for those new to the space (especially if it's evidence-based). He's followed by Mark Kilby, who's also been on this show a lot, (and who Pilar got to meet in person, in London!) and would like a mix of the “how” and the “why”. Then we hear from Pinar Akkaya, it's the first time she's guested on this show. She's looking for inspiration and “what if” scenarios. 24.49 mins Other guests have more specific suggestions. Simon Wilson kicks this bit off. He'd like to hear more - and be involved in conversations - about what asynchronous communication looks like in those teams embracing it, plus deep conversations about organisational culture. We then hear from Ross Winter, our podcast polisher, who would like to hear answers to questions like, Why are we spending so much time looking for connection online? Eva Rimbau Gilabert suggest we cover the transition to hybrid (of which there are many versions), especially when we can back it up with academic research, while Bree encourages us to continue with the diversity of perspectives and deepening the conversation about the future of work. 31.32 mins Finally, the guests have some final words for listeners of the show, and Pilar. We hear from Maya, Simon, Eva, Pinar, Richard, Tim, Ross (and cat!), Bree, Mark, and Theresa, who leaves us with an inspiring aspiration. And thanks to Anish Hindocha, for contributing to the two other parts of this episode! (By the way, Pilar has “podcastinitis” and hosts many shows!) And we have some outtakes from 40.03mins for your amusement after our MANY THANKS to all of you!

In this episode we are going to look at Network Trends.We will be discussing Recent Trends, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Online Collaboration, Video Communications, Cloud Computing, Technology Trends in the Home, Powerline Networking, Wireless Broadband, Wireless Internet Service Providers, and Wireless Broadband Service.Thank you so much for listening to this episode of my series on Introduction to Networks for the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA).Once again, I'm Kevin and this is KevTechify. Let's get this adventure started.All my details and contact information can be found on my website, https://KevTechify.com-------------------------------------------------------Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)Introduction to Networks v1Episode 1 - Networking TodayPart G - Network TrendsPodcast Number: 7-------------------------------------------------------Equipment I like.Home Lab ►► https://kit.co/KevTechify/home-labNetworking Tools ►► https://kit.co/KevTechify/networking-toolsStudio Equipment ►► https://kit.co/KevTechify/studio-equipment  

In this episode, I interview Ro Fernandez, the Co-founder and CEO at Nova Tools, a Vancouver-based online collaboration tool that helps innovation projects come to life by providing the tools and an optimized process all in one platform. The platform has helped numerous teams and made them successful. During Ro's time as a business consultant, she found that small and medium organizations struggle to find the time and resources to keep up with the market and she found herself repeatedly searching for tools and processes for the teams to collaborate and ideate. That's the time she created Nova and now with thousands of subscribers. Ro said that success for her is being able to help and mentor other companies and keep helping other businesses grow, being able to use platforms and technology to really find solutions for today's environmental and social challenges.  This Cast Covers:   An online collaboration platform that helps small and large teams to manage the collaboration and make better decisions. Making the idea come to life through fast implementation. Guiding multi-disciplinary teams through the ideation and strategy process. From ideation to strategy, template business processes and track how to build IP in a visual way. Having access to all the tools, resources, and collaborative space to make sure clients can collaborate. Learning the importance of businesses for society, creating jobs for people, and innovation. How businesses get to the trends, change for the society, and implement processes to get better. How small businesses and companies change the way people live by using the products they created. Making an impact by being able to use platforms and technology to really find solutions for today's environmental and social challenges. The importance of making a product that speaks for itself.       Additional Resources: Nova Buyology By Martin Lindstrom Influence By Robert B. Cialdini ………………………………………… Quotes:  “Success to me is being able to help and mentor other companies and keep helping other businesses grow.” —Ro Fernandez “Make a product that speaks for itself.” —Ro Fernandez “You need to love challenges to be able to wake up every morning and no matter how hard things get, you'll be able to take that.” —Ro Fernandez “Celebrate small successes.” —Ro Fernandez “Resources and contacts are the two things that are extremely important.” —Ro Fernandez ………………………………………… Music from https://filmmusic.io “Cold Funk” by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com. License: CC by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

We spend more time in Zoom and Teams than eating or sleeping. Does that mean we know what it takes for everyone to have a great experience in the hybrid workplace using these tools? The answer can be a resounding “yes” if we know how to tap into the vast amounts of data being collected [...]

The pandemic has brought about an opportunity for individuals to reflect on their lives, and most, in fact 77% of the legal professionals want to retain elements of this new virtual, remote working - to varying degrees. And critically, 22% said they are likely to leave if their employers didn't accommodate the new way they want to work. In this podcast, we will briefly discuss differing perspectives on remote working, the benefits and drawbacks to individuals, firms and clients to remote working, the impact on collaboration and differences by subgroup, working patterns, before and during COVID-19 and desired post-pandemic and which roles should remote working be available to, plus with or without restrictions. We will also understand where you fit in and how you can maximize your own and your teams' productivity as we progress into a new world of work with mixtures of both distributed and in person teams.  Moderator:  @Harriet Joubert-Vaklyes - Process Innovation Senior Specialist, Shearman & Sterling LLP Speakers: @Kristin Rhodes - Senior Practice Manager, Paul Hastings LLP @Natalie Runyon -  Director, Enterprise Content, Talent, Inclusion & Culture, Market Insights, Thomson Reuters Recorded on 10-26-2021​​​​​

Imagine a world in which middle schoolers fact check presidential debates and public officials publish transcripts of every conversation they have. That's the world that Audrey Tang, Taiwan's digital minister, has helped create, thereby fortifying Taiwan's democracy even as it faces increasing threats from China. Tang tells POLITICO's Ryan Heath what it's like to govern and live in the shadow of China. Audrey Tang is Taiwan's digital minister.  Ryan Heath is the host of the "Global Insider" podcast and authors the newsletter.  Olivia Reingold produces “Global Insider.”  Irene Noguchi  edits “Global Insider” and is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

In this episode of the Cohere podcast, Bill Johnston and Dr. Lauren Vargas welcome Nancy White back to the show. Nancy is a true polymath, involved in shaping the early online community and collaboration movement and also deeply versed in group facilitation. Nancy is the Founder of Full Circle Associates and has a long history of working with global NGOs and non-profits on large-scale collaboration and community initiatives. In the episode we talk to Nancy about her personal experiences during the pandemic, what changes she's observed in her communities and in her work, and explore how we might take what we have learned about collaboration and communities during the pandemic with us back into the world when we begin to emerge from the pandemic.

In this episode we sat down with Gary Weis and Steve McCann, where we had a beautiful conversation about human connection in both online and offline worlds, the challenges we face with creating too many formal structures in online meetings, and how we can benefit from communities to connect.Both these guests brought serendipitous moments of synchronicity and wonder, and it was a pleasure to be on the ride. Here's a summary of what we covered:12:05 - remembering that we are all human13:19 - being 6 star means taking some risk 21:34 - understanding people is the centre of it all29:33 - the pain of taking on the wrong client37:14 - how remote working doesn't quite replace the physical41:00 - the beauty of human togetherness43:38 - meetings are far more than ticking boxes of an agendaEnjoy!Here is some information on our guests and where you can find them:Gary WeisFounder, CEO of WP Butler and SBIMFor the past 30 years Gary has worked in sales and marketing, business development, business consulting and marketing agency arena, specialising in high end retail, wholesale and professional service industries.  Gary is active in his local business community and is a member of the Innovate Moreton Bay Steering Committee and the School of Business & Creative Industries External Academic Advisory Committee for the University of the Sunshine coast.  Gary is the strategic marketing director of SBIM and a founder of WP Butler, Australia's Home of WordPress.Something Interesting About YouGary is an avid competitive cyclist and ex touring musician (drummer).Contact:FB: https://www.facebook.com/SBIMarketingFB: https://www.facebook.com/wpbutlerauLI: linkedin.com/in/online-marketing-brisbaneW: https://sbim.com.auW: https://wpbutler.com.auSteve McCannDirector, Rees McCannChief Tessellating Officer is hard to get past the spell check, and perhaps the sense check too, and it is what I most like to do - connecting and collaborating, working to find ways of putting the right people into the right space at the right time so that great things can happen. In the world of work that is likely to be related to remote working and events. Designing and facilitating and producing remote events, as well as developing and delivering online first team development training and working practice training.Look out for the institute of Online Collaboration - launching in June 2021.Something Interesting About YouI enjoy Triathlon and am part of a fundraising team aiming to raise £1 million for Great Ormond Street Hospital See https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/stephen-mccann11Contact:LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-mccann-5a0b573/T: https://twitter.com/mccannstevejW: https://www.reesmccann.com/The purpose of the 6 Star Business is to bring awareness, connection and ingenuity to businesses aiming to shine today and into the future through more than 5 star reviews.  We are here to lift businesses to create a better future. If you'd like to get in touch please contact us at contact@6star.business

New research links a deadly disaster in the Indian Himalayas to an avalanche of rock and ice. We hear about the new findings, revisit voices on the ground, and ask what can be learned from this as the climate warms.

British guitarist and composer Timothy Reid found a creative outlet in online collaboration during the pandemic. He found this podcast on his daily train commute in Osaka Japan. Lucky me (and you). He and I share the common threads of Kompoz.com and Peter Rand, who is a prolific member of the collaboration website Kompoz. Like me, Timothy was drawn to one of Peter's compositions and has since recorded music with him. Timothy has also recorded with several other artists on and off of Kompoz. Our initial conversations leading up to this interview were about Timothy's enjoyment of this podcast, which was heartwarming to hear. Peter Rand co-wrote my latest release ‘New Gods Part 2,' which dropped last Friday May 28th 2021. This means you can stream, purchase and or download it on most of the popular music services. Find direct links to some of those platforms on my website Robonzo.com. New Gods Part Two is my personal homage to Zeppelin, Genesis and prog rock with a little social commentary. I hope you'll check it out, share it, download it and maybe add it to one of your playlists. Timothy and I talk at length about his collaborations on Kompoz.com, how Kompoz collaborations helped him during the pandemic, his past and more recent work, and his musician life in general. Both Timothy and Peter Rand are prolific and versatile writers. You can find them both on Kompoz.com. You can also find Timothy at TomothyReid.com.  See the uncut video version of this conversation on YouTube (link below). I hope you enjoy my chat with Timothy  as much as I did. Audio Note I recorded the intro and mid-roll for this episode in a hotel room using the Trackd Music app for iPhone. My usual usual microphone and audio interface setup didn't make their way into my suitcase. Trackd Music to the rescue. I could have used my iPhone voice recorder, but Trackd Music is built for making sonic sense of a room, wherever you are. Visit UnstarvingMusician.com/Podcasts for related links, episode transcripts and past guests. Sign up for the Unstarving Musician email newsletter at UnstarvingMusician.com Stay in touch! @RobonzoDrummer on Twitter  and  Instagram @UnstarvingMusician on Facebook  and  YouTube

British guitarist and composer Timothy Reid found a creative outlet in online collaboration during the pandemic. He found this podcast on his daily train commute in Osaka Japan. Lucky me (and you). He and I share the common threads of Kompoz.com and Peter Rand, who is a prolific member of the collaboration website Kompoz. Like me, Timothy was drawn to one of Peter's compositions and has since recorded music with him. Timothy has also recorded with several other artists on and off of Kompoz. Our initial conversations leading up to this interview were about Timothy's enjoyment of this podcast, which was heartwarming to hear. Peter Rand co-wrote my latest release ‘New Gods Part 2,' which dropped last Friday May 28th 2021. This means you can stream, purchase and or download it on most of the popular music services. Find direct links to some of those platforms on my website Robonzo.com. New Gods Part Two is my personal homage to Zeppelin, Genesis and prog rock with a little social commentary. I hope you'll check it out, share it, download it and maybe add it to one of your playlists. Timothy and I talk at length about his collaborations on Kompoz.com, how Kompoz collaborations helped him during the pandemic, his past and more recent work, and his musician life in general. Both Timothy and Peter Rand are prolific and versatile writers. You can find them both on Kompoz.com. You can also find Timothy at TomothyReid.com.  See the uncut video version of this conversation on YouTube (link below). I hope you enjoy my chat with Timothy  as much as I did. Audio Note I recorded the intro and mid-roll for this episode in a hotel room using the Trackd Music app for iPhone. My usual usual microphone and audio interface setup didn't make their way into my suitcase. Trackd Music to the rescue. I could have used my iPhone voice recorder, but Trackd Music is built for making sonic sense of a room, wherever you are. Visit UnstarvingMusician.com/Podcasts for related links, episode transcripts and past guests. Sign up for the Unstarving Musician email newsletter at UnstarvingMusician.com Stay in touch! @RobonzoDrummer on Twitter  and  Instagram @UnstarvingMusician on Facebook  and  YouTube

Commercial Virtual Remote – the online collaboration platform the Defense Department used throughout the pandemic – is shutting down in just a few weeks. But like the other armed services, the Navy realized fairly quickly that it doesn’t want to do business without the capabilities CVR provided. So instead of taking years to build a long-term replacement, the Navy did it in just six months. Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu has more on what the project taught IT leaders about agile development.

Podcast Show Notes and Links: https://ukuleleunderground.com/2021/04/collaboration-sauce-uup11/ This week, the team explores the Secret Sauce in a good Online Collaboration. Aldrine walks through UU's Collaboration process, Aaron gives insight into the video side of things, and Kahai recalls videos where the guys added more after, or needed to prepare in advance. They also talk about some of their favorite collaborations, and share some behind the scenes details of their favorite videos. A member asks about the pros and cons of fingerpicking with 3 vs 4 fingers. At the end of the podcast, UU tries more hot sauce, and Aldrine shares his own Sauce recipe.

Cai Kjaer, Co-founder and CEO at SWOOP Analytics, tells us about the importance of measuring online collaboration. SWOOP is a leading enterprise social network analytics platform that uses data from Microsoft Teams, Yammer and Workplace by Facebook to help organisations and their people to become better collaborators. Cai stresses the objective is to have a two-way conversation rather than a one-way broadcast and to establish an authentic line of engagement between the CEO and the frontline.

This episode is really special for me. Last month for NaPodPoMo I had the extreme pleasure of chatting with Damon Castillo for this episode. Yes, THE Damon Castillo of the Mess of Me album that we've been using for the past 2 years in all of the Geopats Podcast Network shows. We talk about the longevity of the Damon Castillo Band, his geopatness, my favorite song on the Mess of Me Album (Saint Cecilia), his recording studio in San Luis Obispo, what music he listens to and some creative struggles.  Would love to hear from you! https://twitter.com/stephfuccio (Twitter), https://www.instagram.com/stephfuccio (Instagram), http://www.linkedin.com/in/dstephfuccio/ (LinkedIn) & you can even leave a voice message on https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/contact.html (Speakpipe). More info: https://www.stephfuccio.com/geopatsonline/27 (https://www.stephfuccio.com/geopatsonline/27) Ways to Support Geopats Online: Geopats Online is hosted on Captivate FM: An insanely Creator oriented hosting service with personality, marketing know how and more. So yea, I highly recommend them. https://my.captivate.fm/signup?ref=geopats (https://my.captivate.fm/signup?ref=geopats) Feel free to buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/geopats (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/geopats) Review this podcast on Podchaser:https://my.captivate.fm/%C2%A0https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/geopats-online-1324407 ( https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/geopats-online-1324407) Spread the word about our podcast services, including but not limited to podcast editing and podcasting workshops. https://www.stephfuccio.com/podservices.html (https://www.stephfuccio.com/podservices.html)

Join Jaclyn Townsend, Tanya Herwanger, and Carl Neuhaus as they discuss the changes that this year has brought to businesses, people, and our industry.TABLE OF CONTENTS00:00 - Intro01:17 -  Virtual Relationships & Getting Personal07:04 - The Growing Gap: Remote Limbo13:32 - Remote Work & Teams17:17 - Disconnection & Culture Shifts19:34 - Innovation Challenges - Define the Problem24:55 - Simulating the Virtual Water Cooler27:02 - Relieving the Anxiety34:46 -  A Way Forward37:45 – Conclusion EXPLORE MORE FROM THE EPISODEBuilding Productive RelationshipsNew Rules of Dating (Virtually)Virtual Sales amid COVID-19 and after5 Ways Sales Teams Can Adapt During COVID-19Mastering the Virtual Practice: Why Your Clients will Prefer Virtual MeetingsWork-Life BalanceHow to Dramatically Improve Work-Live BalanceForget Work-Life Balance: It's all about Integration in the age of COVID-19Online Gaming and TeamworkHow online gamers' participation fosters their team commitment: Perspective of social identity theoryDoes trust promote more teamwork? Modeling online game players teamwork using team experience as a moderatorHow I Use Online Games to Skyrocket My Remote Team's Productivity

This episode would be helpful for beginner like us who face the network glitch problem while recording. I spoked about the way how you can eliminate glitch or atleast fade up to the extent the glitching errors after online collaborating --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mangesh-jadhav-stt/message

This is the second in a multi-part series that covers the online music collaboration space. My guests this week, Alicia Rius and Arnau Bosch of SoundStorming, believe that online collaboration apps will feed the next iteration of the music industry and allow a new breed of fans to become part of the creative process. With fan engagement opportunities growing, online collaboration apps have the potential to help us re-imagine music discovery. Alicia was featured in episode 153 of the podcast where we discussed the inception of SoundStorming. Her partner Arnau is a music creator and together they're both passionate about what the SoundStorming team is building. In this discussion we talk about who's using their service, interesting trends on online collaboration, changes driven by the Covid crisis of 2020, the future of online collaboration and more. For full resources, show notes and episode transcripts go to UnstarvingMusician.com

This is the second in a multi-part series that covers the online music collaboration space. My guests this week, Alicia Rius and Arnau Bosch of SoundStorming, believe that online collaboration apps will feed the next iteration of the music industry and allow a new breed of fans to become part of the creative process. With fan engagement opportunities growing, online collaboration apps have the potential to help us re-imagine music discovery. Alicia was featured in episode 153 of the podcast where we discussed the inception of SoundStorming. Her partner Arnau is a music creator and together they're both passionate about what the SoundStorming team is building. In this discussion we talk about who's using their service, interesting trends on online collaboration, changes driven by the Covid crisis of 2020, the future of online collaboration and more. For full resources, show notes and episode transcripts go to UnstarvingMusician.com

ANNOUNCEMENTS The July Edition of the HSS Song Contest is over with Gary Brun coming out on top as the winner. Gary’s song was chosen by a panel of judges that I had arranged to be on the show for the livestream. (https://youtu.be/j0FMqBJ6ypY) The August Edition of the HSS Song Contest is on! (https://bit.ly/August-Song-Submissions) -One file per submission -No copyrighted material -MP3 or WAV format  Wanna join the HSS Session Players? (https://bit.ly/Session_Player_Sign-up)   EAR TO THE GROUND -THIS MONTHS 3 FREE PLUGINS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY ONLINE COLLABORATION TOOLS- 1. Flock With Flock, team members can exchange messages, share files, host video conferences, manage to-dos, and set up calendar events all from one easy-to-use app. Flock integrates with popular business tools such as Google Calendar, Google Drive, Asana, MailChimp, and Twitter, making it easier for team members to stay on top of things without juggling a dozen different apps.  Flock’s free plan gives your team: Unlimited team members and one-to-one messages 10 public channels for group conversations Unlimited 1:1 video calls 5GB storage for file sharing and 10K message history for quick search Built-in productivity apps such as shared notes, polls, and reminders  Unlimited integrations for third-party services, such as Asana, Jira, or Google Drive Need more room? Flock PRO unlocks enhanced admin controls, group video conferencing, unlimited channels, guest accounts, more file storage, and access to priority support. At just $4.50 per user per month, we think it’s a steal, but our free plan is pretty generous and well, free. It’s your call. I like the sound of this one so much that I am going to try and integrate this immediately to see how it works! Wanna test it with me? (https://hsscollab.flock.com?i=1k8l2322e813eli1) 2. Slack If you’ve heard of team chat, you’ve probably heard of them. IM, channels, video calls, integrations and bots for hundreds of third-party tools; Slack has it all. But the free plan limits you to 10 service integrations, so choose wisely. Slack’s free plan Unlimited users, messages, and channels Unlimited one-to-one voice and video calls  5GB storage for file sharing and 10K message history Up to 10 apps or service integrations For video conferencing (up to 15 participants) and guest accounts, you’ll need to upgrade to a Standard plan that costs $6.67 per user per month. There’s also a Plus plan that adds more features at $12.50 a user per month.  3. Microsoft Teams Initially an exclusive for businesses with Office 365 subscriptions, Microsoft Teams has since launched a free plan for small businesses. We love its innovative features such as inline translation for messages and the ability to record meetings with automatic transcriptions. Also a plus, its deep integrations with OneDrive and Office 365 services. Microsoft Team’s free plan Up to 300 users Unlimited messages, channels, and search Unlimited audio and video meetings with up to 250 participants 10GB of team file storage + 2GB per user 140+ apps and service integrations For advanced collaboration features such as meeting recordings and automatic transcriptions, you’ll need to pony up for an Office 365 subscription.  Office 365 Business Essentials costs $5 a user per month and the full-featured Office 365 Business Premium will set you back $12.50 a user per month.   MAIN THOUGHT 1. Check File Formats Producers: Be clear about what format you work with — bit rate, bit depth and file type. Musicians: If you don’t know what the producer needs, don’t be afraid to ask! They’ll probably appreciate that you did. If you aren’t sure how to calibrate those sorts of parameters in your DAW of choice, the producer will probably be able to guide you. (Hint, it usually just involves a couple of clicks in your DAW’s “preferences” menu.) 2. Deliver Same-Length Consolidated Tracks Producers: When you send off files to your remote collaborators, the easiest thing to do is usually to provide a mix of the song with a couple of bars of silence at the top. If you want to go above and beyond, you can include a 2-bar count in. Musicians: When you prepare your takes to send off, it’s usually easiest to make sure they’re the same length as the mix you were tracking to. If there was silence at the top, leave that in your tracks. The producer should be able to import your tracks into the beginning of their session and start working with them right away. Preparing tracks in this way works more or less like printing stems. Cakewalk has this option and it’s really easy! Please, whatever you do, don’t send anybody a bunch of short files that have to be lined up manually. 3. Label Tracks Properly If someone hires you to play on their song and you send them back a bunch of files with names like “Audio02.0003,” I promise you they will never hire you again (especially if you also ignored my previous point). Give tracks names that illustrate what they are: “dark synth pad,” “bridge flute melody,” “backup vox 1a,” etc. Labeling tracks clearly is especially important when sharing instruments recorded with multiple mics, like a drum kit. Don’t assume that a producer will be able to hear that “Drum 5” is a floor tom and “Drum 7” is an overhead. Give those tracks and files names that make it clear exactly what you’re handing over. 4. Provide BPM, Charts, References & Mock-Ups This point goes out to producers specifically: the best way to get great takes from remote session players is to set them up to succeed. Find out what supplemental materials and information will help them the most and give it to them. Clearly labeling BPMs is a good first step, and if you’re sending a temp mix for players to track to, including BPM somewhere in the file name is a good move. Some players may prefer having the song broken into multiple stems so they can build their own monitor mix. If so, ask them how they’d like those stems broken down. If you’ve made a mock-up of the part they’re recording, they’ll likely appreciate having that on a separate track that they can mute while recording. Many players will also appreciate getting some sort of written notation. Even if a full-on score isn’t necessary, chord charts and notes on the structure of a song can be very helpful. Remember, every minute a session player spends trying to understand what you’re asking from them is a minute they’re not spending recording their parts. Make their lives easy and they’ll repay the favor by giving you takes that you love. 5. Set Clear Expectations When I have someone record tracks for me remotely, I usually trust them to apply whatever processing they think helps make their instrument sound good. Some producers may prefer to get tracks bone dry. Some producers may want that screaming guitar solo you just recorded to come with a clean DI take to have as a backup. The point here is that everyone works differently, and it’s never safe to assume that a collaborator will automatically know what you need from them. If it’s unclear what a collaborator expects from you, there’s no shame in checking in with them. Remember, it’s much harder to get what you want if you never really ask for it! 6. Provide Alternate Takes This point goes out to musicians recording parts remotely: If a producer is giving you free reign to “do your thing” on their track, they’ll probably appreciate having a few different versions to work with. A standard way of approaching this is to provide “mild, medium and spicy” takes that range from being more sparse to more adventurous and busy. The producer may have more specific ideas in mind though — a take with a swung feel, a take in a higher octave — so get clear on what they’d like to have from you. Keep in mind — providing lots of alternate takes doesn’t get you off the hook of having to deliver files that can be organized easily. Be prepared to label the different takes in ways that make clear what they are, or to provide notes when you share files. 7. Record at a Healthy Level In the days when all recordings happened on analog tape, a producer’s MO was usually to capture signal as hot as possible without clipping, so that it would sit above the noise floor introduced by all that analog gear. That hot signal would also benefit from some natural compression introduced by hitting the tape hard, and sweet saturation from almost everything in the chain. In the average home recording setup, though, we’re more likely to run into a different set of issues. Most home studios now don’t include any kind of tape setup, and the noise floor introduced by a buzzing refrigerator in the other room or a busy city street outside your window is only going to get louder as preamp gain goes up. And while vintage consoles often really shine when driven to the edge of the red, the preamps on a mid-shelf audio interface are more likely to introduce brittle, shrill distortion when cranked. I usually ask long-distance collaborators to record tracks with peaks around -12 dBFS. Signal at that level is loud enough to sit above most noise floor introduced by recording gear, but far enough from the ceiling that no distortion will be introduced by the preamp being used. 8. Leave in Some Noise There’s some pretty sophisticated noise reduction software available these days, and chances are your producer has access to some of it. It can be tempting to want to clean up noise in dead spaces of a song, either by manually deleting spaces between phrases or using a gate. I do appreciate it when collaborators do some of that cleanup for me. In order to get the most out of noise reduction plugins like iZotope’s RX suite, though, it’s much easier to have a section of pure noise that the software’s algorithms can “learn” in order to more fully remove it. As always, the safest move is to check in about what the producer prefers! For those of us who have only used our home setups to record demos, it can be daunting to have to record tracks that will go on someone’s record. For producers who are used to sitting in a room with an artist while they record takes, it can be difficult to get what they’re looking for without being able to give feedback in real-time. Fortunately, it’s only getting easier to clear these sorts of hurdles, even if we all have to make some adjustments. Hopefully, now you’ve got a sense of some big ways you can make long-distance collaborations go more smoothly. What other sorts of problems have you encountered with recording remotely? And what kind of creative solutions have you come up with? Let me know in the comments! Alright, that wraps up today's episode of the HSS Podcast. If you’ve found it helpful drop a comment and let me know. Feel free to share this with anyone that you think it may help as well, and remember if you’re watching this on the YouTube channel to Subscribe to the Channel and hit that beautiful little bell icon that alerts you when there is new content dropping or a Live Stream is about to go down.   Home Studio Simplified exists to simplify the complexities of the Home Studio and to help you make professional music in a less than professional space. We can Dream alone. We can Create alone. But Together we can achieve so much more.  

ANNOUNCEMENTS The July Edition of the HSS Song Contest is over with Gary Brun coming out on top as the winner. Gary's song was chosen by a panel of judges that I had arranged to be on the show for the livestream. (https://youtu.be/j0FMqBJ6ypY) The August Edition of the HSS Song Contest is on! (https://bit.ly/August-Song-Submissions) -One file per submission -No copyrighted material -MP3 or WAV format  Wanna join the HSS Session Players? (https://bit.ly/Session_Player_Sign-up)   EAR TO THE GROUND -THIS MONTHS 3 FREE PLUGINS HAS BEEN REPLACED BY ONLINE COLLABORATION TOOLS- 1. Flock With Flock, team members can exchange messages, share files, host video conferences, manage to-dos, and set up calendar events all from one easy-to-use app. Flock integrates with popular business tools such as Google Calendar, Google Drive, Asana, MailChimp, and Twitter, making it easier for team members to stay on top of things without juggling a dozen different apps.  Flock's free plan gives your team: Unlimited team members and one-to-one messages 10 public channels for group conversations Unlimited 1:1 video calls 5GB storage for file sharing and 10K message history for quick search Built-in productivity apps such as shared notes, polls, and reminders  Unlimited integrations for third-party services, such as Asana, Jira, or Google Drive Need more room? Flock PRO unlocks enhanced admin controls, group video conferencing, unlimited channels, guest accounts, more file storage, and access to priority support. At just $4.50 per user per month, we think it's a steal, but our free plan is pretty generous and well, free. It's your call. I like the sound of this one so much that I am going to try and integrate this immediately to see how it works! Wanna test it with me? (https://hsscollab.flock.com?i=1k8l2322e813eli1) 2. Slack If you've heard of team chat, you've probably heard of them. IM, channels, video calls, integrations and bots for hundreds of third-party tools; Slack has it all. But the free plan limits you to 10 service integrations, so choose wisely. Slack's free plan Unlimited users, messages, and channels Unlimited one-to-one voice and video calls  5GB storage for file sharing and 10K message history Up to 10 apps or service integrations For video conferencing (up to 15 participants) and guest accounts, you'll need to upgrade to a Standard plan that costs $6.67 per user per month. There's also a Plus plan that adds more features at $12.50 a user per month.  3. Microsoft Teams Initially an exclusive for businesses with Office 365 subscriptions, Microsoft Teams has since launched a free plan for small businesses. We love its innovative features such as inline translation for messages and the ability to record meetings with automatic transcriptions. Also a plus, its deep integrations with OneDrive and Office 365 services. Microsoft Team's free plan Up to 300 users Unlimited messages, channels, and search Unlimited audio and video meetings with up to 250 participants 10GB of team file storage + 2GB per user 140+ apps and service integrations For advanced collaboration features such as meeting recordings and automatic transcriptions, you'll need to pony up for an Office 365 subscription.  Office 365 Business Essentials costs $5 a user per month and the full-featured Office 365 Business Premium will set you back $12.50 a user per month.   MAIN THOUGHT 1. Check File Formats Producers: Be clear about what format you work with — bit rate, bit depth and file type. Musicians: If you don't know what the producer needs, don't be afraid to ask! They'll probably appreciate that you did. If you aren't sure how to calibrate those sorts of parameters in your DAW of choice, the producer will probably be able to guide you. (Hint, it usually just involves a couple of clicks in your DAW's “preferences” menu.) 2. Deliver Same-Length Consolidated Tracks Producers: When you send off files to your remote collaborators, the easiest thing to do is usually to provide a mix of the song with a couple of bars of silence at the top. If you want to go above and beyond, you can include a 2-bar count in. Musicians: When you prepare your takes to send off, it's usually easiest to make sure they're the same length as the mix you were tracking to. If there was silence at the top, leave that in your tracks. The producer should be able to import your tracks into the beginning of their session and start working with them right away. Preparing tracks in this way works more or less like printing stems. Cakewalk has this option and it's really easy! Please, whatever you do, don't send anybody a bunch of short files that have to be lined up manually. 3. Label Tracks Properly If someone hires you to play on their song and you send them back a bunch of files with names like “Audio02.0003,” I promise you they will never hire you again (especially if you also ignored my previous point). Give tracks names that illustrate what they are: “dark synth pad,” “bridge flute melody,” “backup vox 1a,” etc. Labeling tracks clearly is especially important when sharing instruments recorded with multiple mics, like a drum kit. Don't assume that a producer will be able to hear that “Drum 5” is a floor tom and “Drum 7” is an overhead. Give those tracks and files names that make it clear exactly what you're handing over. 4. Provide BPM, Charts, References & Mock-Ups This point goes out to producers specifically: the best way to get great takes from remote session players is to set them up to succeed. Find out what supplemental materials and information will help them the most and give it to them. Clearly labeling BPMs is a good first step, and if you're sending a temp mix for players to track to, including BPM somewhere in the file name is a good move. Some players may prefer having the song broken into multiple stems so they can build their own monitor mix. If so, ask them how they'd like those stems broken down. If you've made a mock-up of the part they're recording, they'll likely appreciate having that on a separate track that they can mute while recording. Many players will also appreciate getting some sort of written notation. Even if a full-on score isn't necessary, chord charts and notes on the structure of a song can be very helpful. Remember, every minute a session player spends trying to understand what you're asking from them is a minute they're not spending recording their parts. Make their lives easy and they'll repay the favor by giving you takes that you love. 5. Set Clear Expectations When I have someone record tracks for me remotely, I usually trust them to apply whatever processing they think helps make their instrument sound good. Some producers may prefer to get tracks bone dry. Some producers may want that screaming guitar solo you just recorded to come with a clean DI take to have as a backup. The point here is that everyone works differently, and it's never safe to assume that a collaborator will automatically know what you need from them. If it's unclear what a collaborator expects from you, there's no shame in checking in with them. Remember, it's much harder to get what you want if you never really ask for it! 6. Provide Alternate Takes This point goes out to musicians recording parts remotely: If a producer is giving you free reign to “do your thing” on their track, they'll probably appreciate having a few different versions to work with. A standard way of approaching this is to provide “mild, medium and spicy” takes that range from being more sparse to more adventurous and busy. The producer may have more specific ideas in mind though — a take with a swung feel, a take in a higher octave — so get clear on what they'd like to have from you. Keep in mind — providing lots of alternate takes doesn't get you off the hook of having to deliver files that can be organized easily. Be prepared to label the different takes in ways that make clear what they are, or to provide notes when you share files. 7. Record at a Healthy Level In the days when all recordings happened on analog tape, a producer's MO was usually to capture signal as hot as possible without clipping, so that it would sit above the noise floor introduced by all that analog gear. That hot signal would also benefit from some natural compression introduced by hitting the tape hard, and sweet saturation from almost everything in the chain. In the average home recording setup, though, we're more likely to run into a different set of issues. Most home studios now don't include any kind of tape setup, and the noise floor introduced by a buzzing refrigerator in the other room or a busy city street outside your window is only going to get louder as preamp gain goes up. And while vintage consoles often really shine when driven to the edge of the red, the preamps on a mid-shelf audio interface are more likely to introduce brittle, shrill distortion when cranked. I usually ask long-distance collaborators to record tracks with peaks around -12 dBFS. Signal at that level is loud enough to sit above most noise floor introduced by recording gear, but far enough from the ceiling that no distortion will be introduced by the preamp being used. 8. Leave in Some Noise There's some pretty sophisticated noise reduction software available these days, and chances are your producer has access to some of it. It can be tempting to want to clean up noise in dead spaces of a song, either by manually deleting spaces between phrases or using a gate. I do appreciate it when collaborators do some of that cleanup for me. In order to get the most out of noise reduction plugins like iZotope's RX suite, though, it's much easier to have a section of pure noise that the software's algorithms can “learn” in order to more fully remove it. As always, the safest move is to check in about what the producer prefers! For those of us who have only used our home setups to record demos, it can be daunting to have to record tracks that will go on someone's record. For producers who are used to sitting in a room with an artist while they record takes, it can be difficult to get what they're looking for without being able to give feedback in real-time. Fortunately, it's only getting easier to clear these sorts of hurdles, even if we all have to make some adjustments. Hopefully, now you've got a sense of some big ways you can make long-distance collaborations go more smoothly. What other sorts of problems have you encountered with recording remotely? And what kind of creative solutions have you come up with? Let me know in the comments! Alright, that wraps up today's episode of the HSS Podcast. If you've found it helpful drop a comment and let me know. Feel free to share this with anyone that you think it may help as well, and remember if you're watching this on the YouTube channel to Subscribe to the Channel and hit that beautiful little bell icon that alerts you when there is new content dropping or a Live Stream is about to go down.   Home Studio Simplified exists to simplify the complexities of the Home Studio and to help you make professional music in a less than professional space. We can Dream alone. We can Create alone. But Together we can achieve so much more.  

Welcome! Craig’s walking you through a deep dive of the Pros and Cons of Online Collaboration Tools for Businesses and the Security implications for Businesses who have Regulatory Requirements.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: Twitter wants to know if you meant to share that article DHS Warns on New Exploit of Windows 10 Vulnerability FBI Says Sudden Increase in Mobile Banking Is Heightening Risks For Users What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Social Engineering UPnP flaw exposes millions of network devices to attacks over the Internet --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Hey, do you know what demonetization is? Well, besides being a trend, it is, in fact, making a major impact on what you are seeing online. So we're going to get into that right now. [00:00:19] Hi, everybody, of course, Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining me. And, this is, this is just something that's been bothering me all week. I have to talk about this. It's been in the news. You know, I went to Google news and did a search for this and you know what? It doesn't show up in Google news anymore. [00:00:39] This is crazy because it really hit all of the news really when it was it probably Wednesday this week. It's crazy. But here's, what's happened. Google banned a website called Zero Hedge from its ad platform. And, you know, we've been looking at this for a while. What happens, what's going on with these ad platforms, right? [00:01:07] If, if you're basically, libertarian, as if you're conservative, you don't want to shut down free speech. If you are a socialist-communist or fascist, of course, you want to shut down free speech. And that's exactly what's been happening here. You see places like Zero Hedge require advertising revenue in order to stay in business. [00:01:32] Right. Is that what news organizations have done for forever? You have an article, people read your newspaper, your magazine, your website, in order to get at that article. And you've got ads, right? Used to be, you'd have classified ads and one section of the newspaper, right. You'd go to the C section and that was sports, or maybe it was B in your newspaper and there'd be ads for sportspeople in that write an ad for things like that, you know, baseball gloves that are, or games or maybe movies that are things they thought you'd be interested in were in that section of the newspaper. In the business section, they're not going to have ads that are for kids clothes. Right. That's very unlikely. But that's how they stay in business. It's all about advertising and the advertising revenue. So what's happening right now. What's going on and why is this happening? [00:02:34] It's happening more and more. Frankly, it's getting scarier and scarier. The left has figured out that if they complain if they say I was insulted by this content, They will pull the content. Right. What happened to the days when the editorial page had all kinds of stuff on there.  Frankly, they designed in some ways to get people to talk about it. [00:03:01] Cause that means we're thinking about it, right? It's just like these statues that are being pulled down. The problem I have with it is if they're up and we're talking about the things that these people had done that were evil, in some cases, we're talking about it. We're thinking about it. It's just like barring any part of history that we don't like, and don't agree with, it doesn't help us today. Yet, somehow these people just don't get it. Do they? These people are saying, Oh, we're going to tear this down. They're tearing it down. They're stopping free speech because they don't agree with it. [00:03:46] What happened to the days when universities were the place where free speech was praised, right? You remember way back when you might be too young to remember this? I know I'm, iffy too young to remember some of this stuff, but it used to be that in universities, there was very liberal thought. No. I'm not talking about liberal the way that for instance, Hillary Clinton defined it, which was early 20th century liberals in the United States, which was then renamed, the communist party of America, which people didn't like. [00:04:17] So they changed it to the liberal party. Right. So same people, same methodologies, same thinking, same idiocy. Right. and we seem to have forgotten about that. That somehow frees speeches bag that, does that make sense to you? The speech that should be protected the most is probably the most insensitive speech because people who are saying things that are racist or otherwise are obviously idiots at the very least. [00:04:54]Now we know they're not people that you really should be hanging out with. Don't you. Yeah, it just doesn't make any sense to me. So the left, which once touted itself as a bastion of free speech, when conservatives were running the universities nowadays, it's not so much, right. We can't have conservative-speech on campus. [00:05:19] We're going to protest, we're going to riot. We're going to make anything possible to make a free speech. More available. We're going to get rid of it. We're going to stop it, which is really concerning to me. So that's why I had to print this up, right? Yeah. [00:05:37] Yeah. We're going to get into the online collaboration tools. I think it's an important thing for us to discuss, but so is this so Google ban of the website, Zero Hedge from its ad platform. That's Demonetization. And in other words, zero hedge, if it was reliant on ads from Google, which it was in order to generate revenue can no longer generate revenue from that side. [00:06:09] Now the part of the problem is as a conservative or libertarian, we look at it and say, okay, well, Google has the right to do, basically whatever it wants with his platform. That's our knee jerk reaction. Of course, the less knee jerk reaction is that that's evil. You can't. No, no, you can't do that. You can't do that. [00:06:31] You can't have that speech. Well, The problem we have right now when we're starting to see this President Trump's been talking about it. But the problem that we have right now is Google and Facebook and Twitter. Some of these other platforms are protected under the law as an open forum. So if somebody says something on one of those sites that are offensive, or maybe even would normally be considered, something that under tort law could be prosecuted. [00:07:07] It doesn't matter because they are protected. So now here they are, they're protected from publishing people, publishing things on their platforms that other people might be offended by, or that might be against the law, frankly, Frankly, any other platform and they are censoring what's being said. So in this case, Google ban of Zero Hedge from its ad platform. [00:07:36] Over comments that were made on articles about the riots that are going on. No, of course, you know, the news. If they reported it at all, NBC reported it as a Google's banning website, Zero Hedge from its ad platform over comments on protest. Again, civil libertarians conservatives were all for free speech. [00:08:01] If you want to have a group of people in the streets, protesting something, by all means, please do it. It's part of free speech. It's part of what so many lives have been lost over so much. Blood has been shed over in this country is free speech. So do it. [00:08:21] However, writing doesn't fit in. So Google said, because of things, users have commented because of things that comments have said on your platform, we're going to ban you now. [00:08:38] Behind this is also NBC. Apparently it was NBC that reported this to Google saying, ah, people who are saying bad things about the protests going on, they're calling them riots and rioters, and we've got to stop that. In other words, one so-called news platform complaining about another news platform. [00:09:14] To get them to put out of business because that's effectively what happens when you're demonetized. So when we get back, I got a little bit more to talk about this here. this is something else because guess what? It's not just Zero Hedge. It's the Federalist, another conservative online. News site so stick around. [00:09:36] We'll be right back. This is Craig Peterson and online Craig peterson.com. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. 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Welcome! Craig’s walking you through a deep dive of the Pros and Cons of Online Collaboration Tools for Businesses and the Security implications for Businesses who have Regulatory Requirements.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: Twitter wants to know if you meant to share that article DHS Warns on New Exploit of Windows 10 Vulnerability FBI Says Sudden Increase in Mobile Banking Is Heightening Risks For Users What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Social Engineering UPnP flaw exposes millions of network devices to attacks over the Internet --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: This is probably one of the most requested shows ever. We're going to talk about online collaboration. We'll the stuff that's needed absolutely needed for working from home. So stick around for the whole show. We got a lot to talk about. [00:00:22] Of course you're listening to Craig Peterson. I am so glad you're here and online. Craig peterson.com. In fact, that's where I've been getting a lot of feedback from you guys. And I want to thank everybody that sent me a no talking about the types of things you want to learn more about. And today that's precisely what we will be talking about. [00:00:43] We're going to go through the. Top online collaboration tools that are out there. We'll be talking about WebEx, which is by far my favorite. It's what we use because of the security, the flexibility. But we're going to get into that. We're going to talk about Zoom and that's what we used for my daughter's wedding a couple of weeks ago. [00:01:04] Why would we use that one? It's so insecure. Well, we're going to get into Zooms biggest features, Microsoft. Teams is a fairly new player on the block, but we're going to talk about them and the pros and cons, and then the granddaddy of them all. We're going to be talking about, go-to-meeting. They've been around a very, very long time. [00:01:26] They have pros, they have cons. We're going to be talking about that as well. And we have a number of articles to get to in this week's news. But we'll see just how far we can get with some of those things. But there are two things we have to get to right now at the top of the show. And one of them is about the latest windows 10 upgrade that they came up with. [00:01:52] Now, the May updates are starting to roll out, in a little bit better speed. Now, if you can believe it here we are the middle of June and, the windows, what the 10th of May. It's starting to roll out to everybody because of all of the problems. And unfortunately, that's the big problem we're seeing right now with windows 10, version 2004. [00:02:18] Now, if you have a computer, one of the best things you can do for that computer to protect your data from a crash, not from the bad guys, but from a crash, is to have something called Raid, which stands for redundant array of inexpensive disks. And the idea here behind raid is that you can have multiple disc drives and [00:02:43] it will store the data on those multiple disc drives, but it stores it in such a way that if a block goes bad on one of those drives, it can pull that block from another drive because essentially it keeps two copies of all of the data you technically, it's not really two copies, but we don't need to get into that right now. [00:03:05] So if you lose a whole disc or you lose a part of a disc, even as small as one block, hopefully, can be recovered. Now, there are a lot of different types of raid out there. Many of them are done in hardware and can provide you with some really great defense. Those are the ones I've been using for probably about 30 years now. [00:03:25] Now with my customers, but there's something else that I've been using for almost as long, ever since it came out, it was developed by Sun Microsystems and it's a file system called ZFS. Now. It's absolutely amazing. It is continually every time you read that disc, it is checking the checksums, see if anything might be wrong with it, if there's anything wrong with it, it recovers that block because there's something known as bit rot when we're talking about computers and discs and even memory, frankly, but particularly with disks. [00:04:01] And that is over time, mathematically, we can figure out how much of that data. That you haven't changed that it's being stored there, the emails, but more importantly, things like your accounting files, et cetera, how just individual bits can decay literally decay because remember they're magnetic. Remember they're on magnetic media. Nowadays that magnetic media is usually on a piece of glass. [00:04:31] That's sitting inside that disc drive. Well as decay, the problem is that the numbers change. So you could have something that says a million dollars and because of bit rot, it changes to, again, could change to zero, right? Because just one bit flips from a one to a zero. That's all it takes. You could lose data storage because a bit flipped inside your directory structure. [00:05:02] You can lose bits on the discs at any time. And they do decay over time. I remember there's a French aerospace manufacturer who we put a proposal to, and I did all of the math. I showed all of the research or some great Ph.D. research that I had found that showed how over time, regular raid devices are not going to help them with longterm retention of the data because they made parts for airplane engines and they had to keep all of the data, all of the scans, the X rays, everything they did, they had to keep it for decades. [00:05:43] As long as that blade that was in that turbofan for that engine for a plane. As long as that blade was out there. In the field in use, they had to keep all of the original data. And so I showed them all of the studies cause I knew what they were looking at. They were looking at just standard grade stuff, Hitachi data systems and some others and, you know, pretty high end, very, very, very expensive hardware. [00:06:12] And I showed how it was impossible for them to keep that data long term. If they put it into a normal raid system. So I proposed, this was some years back, but I proposed a system where there were multiple machines and each machine had what was called the ZFS, which is a Zetta-byte file system on it. Then on top of all of those machines was another distributed file system and I showed how they would not ever lose any data for decades and decades and decades. Now they'd have to replace just drives as they went bad and we have the system set up, so it would inform them about a bad drive so they could replace it. They could actually lose three drives with each one of these data set handlers, just a fantastic system. [00:07:03]It is the type of system we've been using for our clients forever because nowadays, under the federal rules of civil procedure that every business has to follow. You have to have plans in place to keep things like the purchase orders, the bills you send out, even emails have to be retained longterm, IRS and others require you to have policies, retention policies in place, and to keep that data. [00:07:31] You can't do that with regular raid for the longterm. So I brought all of this up because of what Microsoft is doing right now with windows 10 version 2004, Microsoft introduced something that. Is kind of patterned after this ZFS that I talked about. ZFS is just phenomenal. I typically use the two or three, for those of you that are really technical and know what that means in order to help keep the data safe. [00:08:00] And then. Of course, I encrypt it all, push it up into cloud storage, which also has raid, but guaranteed, the data will never be lost. So Microsoft said all this is just wonderful. Wonderful, wonderful. And so they came up with their own version. Apple came up with a version as well. They started to use EFS. [00:08:16] And then when Sun Microsystems went under basically, and their technology was acquired, and this particular ZFS technology, I think it was Oracle that managed to glom onto it. There wouldn't be licensing issues. Apple said, okay, well, we got to do our own thing. So Apple has some very cool advanced file system that is on the SSDs that are in so many of our machines today. [00:08:42] So there's a lot of cool stuff, but Microsoft has stored spaces. Now I don't trust it. I never trusted it. I always use EFS even in the Linux world where they've come up with their own version of the software. That's kind of patterned after ZFS. ZFS, just been around for so long and, and is just so stable. [00:09:03] That's what I use. Cause it's available for them. Really everything out there. But this particular thing I'm talking about storage spaces is a feature Windows and Windows server, and it supports systems with multiple drives and lots of users put those drives together into bundles and create a pool of storage that you can then use to store your stuff. [00:09:26] And the idea is if a disc goes bad, just like raid, just like ZFS have a disc goes bad. You can recover. Now, one of the beauties of the systems we've designed for our clients over the years on ZFS, and you can do this yourself. If you're a little bit more advanced is, as I said, you can guarantee the data never goes bad because every time it's red, it is checked. [00:09:48] Now, if you're using hardware raid or some of these other storage systems that combine desks, it's rare that it's ever checked. Ever checked. Right? So you can check to make sure that that raid array is working properly, but you cannot check that the data in that array has not been damaged. Maybe it was damaged by the raid controller itself or the disc drive or the cashing function on the disc drive, or it lost the power at the exact wrong time. [00:10:22] And now you lost even more of that data. Well, Microsoft has come to yet a new low, well, I don't know. Should we call it a new low? Why not? Okay. A new low. And it turns out that their storage spaces, software that's designed to keep your data safe. Apparently can mess up all of your data. How's that for fun. [00:10:48] And that's particularly from Windows 10, version 2004, Microsoft apparently didn't bother testing it or at least testing it thoroughly enough. And according to these articles, I'm seeing online, like right now, I'm looking at one from ZDnet. It's saying when using some configurations partitioned for storage spaces might show as raw in disk manager. [00:11:12] Microsoft has advised against running the check disk command on any device affected by this issue because fixing your disc is going to make things even worse. Oh gosh. So if you're using storage spaces wise up, get something better. And secondly, don't upgrade yet. It's just like, the May release. It's not out there yet. [00:11:37] Anyway, stick around guys. We'll be right back listening to Craig Peterson and we've got a whole lot more coming up and yes, we're going to get to collaboration. I guarantee. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Welcome! Craig’s walking you through a deep dive of the Pros and Cons of Online Collaboration Tools for Businesses and the Security implications for Businesses who have Regulatory Requirements.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: Twitter wants to know if you meant to share that article DHS Warns on New Exploit of Windows 10 Vulnerability FBI Says Sudden Increase in Mobile Banking Is Heightening Risks For Users What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Social Engineering UPnP flaw exposes millions of network devices to attacks over the Internet --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Well, we've talked about GoToMeeting. We've talked about Zoom. We've talked about Microsoft teams. Now it's time to talk about my favorite. How should you be collaborating in your business? Maybe your organization, your agency there's really. Only one solution and I'll tell you why [00:00:23] Hey, welcome back everybody. Craig, Peterson here, we have had quite a week this week and it's been quite a year, right? It's a Jumanji season. I don't know if you ever saw that movie, but I think somebody playing Jumanji was set here in New Hampshire. The latest Jumanji movies out is actually pretty good I watched it with the grandkids. [00:00:47]I quite enjoyed it. And they're always right. There are some issues with it and yeah, you have to just ignore you, ignore those things. but anyway, that's me. Right? [00:00:59]We've been talking about online collaboration tools. Now, if you're like most of us and you had to have some people working from home. [00:01:09]Even if you're. A business that was considered essential. And you had people who were in the office all day, maybe your accounting people worked from home. Maybe if you had to deal with an attorney, it was remotely. It was from home. And how did you do that? We've been going into businesses lately that have been having troubles and having a look at this very question, how did they do it? [00:01:37]I think really it boiled down to one of two products that people were using. One of them was the Microsoft team's product. I was actually quite surprised to see the number of companies that were using the Cisco WebEx teams. Now I was surprised because I didn't know that many people really knew about it. [00:02:02] How many people knew about WebEx teams? It was a frankly, it was a surprise to me, but WebEx teams is the only product out there right now that is fully compliant with the federal government requirements. So that includes things like DFARs, fed ramp, et cetera. Microsoft is promising that they will be compliant sometime in July. But at this point, they're not compliant. So if you have HIPAA regulations that you have to follow, or you have  ITAR or any of these other federal government requirements, there's only one option, that's WebEx teams. Now, oftentimes when there is a government mandate to use something and it's terrible. [00:02:57] Right? How many times have you had that? You have to get her driver's license in order to drive on the road, not only in your state but another state. So that. It is a terrible experience, right? Going to the DMV, trying to get that all taken care of. It's not something I look forward to, but you get even into worse spots. [00:03:18] I remember doing some work for the US Navy. As a subcontractor and all of the hoops who had to jump through all of the things that we had to do. And that was a few years back. Now, we're doing work with government subcontractors that are doing work for the US Navy. And I thought after these years, things would be a lot tighter. [00:03:42] And in fact, they are. In fact, the new regulations, the CMMC regulations are much tighter with way more teeth on them. People will be going to jail. We're talking about huge multi multimillion-dollar fines. Even for a small company. So it is a very bad thing here to mess up on some of these regulations. So I've been surprised when I go in and find them using things like Microsoft teams, heaven forbid they've been using Zoom, which they have been. [00:04:22] And they are a federal government subcontractor, in fact, for the DOD department of defense. Because again, what did we talk about? Then, all those stuff routed through China. China isn't just looking for military information. China is looking for information from our companies that they can use to compete against us are designed so that they can use they're selling it to their allies. [00:04:49] The same thing is happening over North Korea. An article came out just this week, that North Korea has 7,000 highly trained hackers. That is aiming directly at our businesses here in the US in order to cause economic harm, but also those hackers to gain access to potential military information. So think about that. [00:05:15] Think about how bad all of that stuff is and companies just don't understand what they should be using. So yeah, you had an excuse during COVID to not use something that's secure. I do get that. Believe me, don't know that the government regulators are going to be happy with you. You may go to jail, but I understand it. So for instance, for the HIPAA requirement, those were loosened because of COVID-19 the federal government said, Hey, listen, if you're a doctor in one state, you don't have to get licensed in another state in order to do the telemedicine stuff that made just a ton of sense They also, because of that loosened some of the HIPAA regulations, which they pretty much had to do. [00:05:58] Right. Cause they didn't loosen the HIPAA regulations. You couldn't do the Teladoc across state lines. And you sure as heck could not do Teladoc using Zoom. So they just loosened it all up, but that's not going to last. All right. So start paying more attention to some of this. And some of these Teladoc things have their own platforms. [00:06:20] Your doctor, you get paid per whatever it is, hour or patient, whatever it might be. And you're not worried about the platform. And you're probably okay. If that platform is not secure in just speaking in general terms. Because you don't know anything about it, but some of these telemedicine companies that have these apps, et cetera, should be anyways, that gets into WebEx teams here. [00:06:46] Some of the advantages that have made it the most popular web conferencing solution today. Number one, it's a software as a service. You just have to subscribe to the surface, you have internet access and you're ready to go. WebEx teams is also one of the oldest out there that you can use. And I think that's really kind of cool when you get right down to it. [00:07:12] And remember I mentioned a little bit early. that, it was the GoTo meeting was one of the older ones that were out there. You might remember some of the ads I do from WebEx, that it has been around a long time, but WebEx was founded in 1995. It really is the grandpa out there. It has been doing the software, this meeting software for a long time. [00:07:38] So it works everywhere. Unlike zoom, you do not have to have a desktop app to do pretty much everything or anything that you might want to do on WebEx, which is a very big advantage. You don't have to have a download your audience doesn't need to be a subscriber to watch and listen. Which is not true for some of these other products that we've talked about today. [00:08:01] It also, I think it very, very successfully combined your online viewing with the ability to teleconference easily. And you can connect to the webinar via just the webinars access code. You can have passwords and whatever you might want to do. And this lots of presenters know who is actually there during the presentation. [00:08:24] You don't have to have a time consuming, roll call or anything else. It's right there. You have. Also, of course, the chats, you have the questions and answers and you can have automatically in this space, a meeting, just take place as scheduled one or just ad hoc. So let's say you have a space in WebEx teams, that's for the team to discuss some part of some project. [00:08:50] And so you're going back and forth, back and forth. I said, okay, look, let's just hop on right now. You, you just hit the button, the meet button, and poof in comes. You're now in a meeting and people can call in on the phone. They can connect via their smart device. Anybody that's in the room's going to get notified that there's a meeting on right now can go from your desktop. [00:09:09] It is phenomenal. Just a simple click is all it takes. Then anybody who's in the meeting can present. You can use a built-in whiteboard, it can take remote control of your computer. Are you kidding me? Why would anyone not use this? And it's using the military-grade encryption that we were kind of talking about earlier, right? [00:09:31] The exact opposite of what zoom has been using it also. It allows you to do what we do ourselves and what we do for our government subcontractors. And that is we host the encryption key for all of the meetings and all of the communications. So the only way anyone can see any of this stuff, There was in a meeting is to have this encryption key. [00:10:01] It's absolutely phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal. You also have your own site. So for instance, my company has a site at, you know, company named.webex.com. If you want to meet with me again, it's just. Company name.webex.com/meat sauce. Craig Tata, you are done. They've got tons of training articles for subscribers to use. [00:10:24] It uses a proprietary network that has nodes all over the world. It's reliable. It's secure. It is absolutely amazing. You have to use it. You have to try it. And I advise people to use WebEx over anything out for almost anything. All right. You and you can have conferences. For instance, my room allows up to 10,000 people into it, 10,000. [00:10:53] You know, where else can you get that? But you don't have to have that bigger room if you don't need it. It is just phenomenal share files. Oh, videos, chat back and forth. Multiple spaces are what WebEx calls them. Ad hoc meetings, conferences. It is the tool to use. And you can find out a lot more by just going to webex.com. [00:11:20] If you would like a demo, you can just get one right there. You know, I'm not going to make a dime off of it. Okay. It's not like I own WebEx or own any stock in it. Cause I don't, but it is the way to go. And if you'd like me to help you with it, well, that's a different story. You can get help from me about almost anything we talked about here on the show. [00:11:41] You can just email me. M E at Craig Peterson dot com and we help people out every day. It doesn't have to do with WebEx. It doesn't have to do with anything that you're buying from me. I just make myself on my team available. We have a, an offer going where we had 20 companies that we selected from people that applied, that we provided an hour of tech support for anything they wanted. [00:12:09] So that went really well. We've done that before. We may be doing the. The whole cyber health assessment thing. Again, we'll see how that goes. We did those for free about a year ago. So we may do that as part of our security summer this year, but the only way you find out about all of this stuff is to be on my regular emails, my weekly emails. [00:12:30] And you do that. By going to Craig peterson.com/subscribe. 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Welcome! Craig’s walking you through a deep dive of the Pros and Cons of Online Collaboration Tools for Businesses and the Security implications for Businesses who have Regulatory Requirements.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: Twitter wants to know if you meant to share that article DHS Warns on New Exploit of Windows 10 Vulnerability FBI Says Sudden Increase in Mobile Banking Is Heightening Risks For Users What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Social Engineering UPnP flaw exposes millions of network devices to attacks over the Internet --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: We just talked about NBC news to put their competition out of business when it comes to Zero Hedge. Well, now we're going to talk about what they did to The Federalist. What does it mean to free speech in America? [00:00:17] Hey everybody, Craig Peterson here. Thanks for being with me today. I'm a little worked up about this, as you can tell, and you know probably already, I'm an immigrant to the United States. I don't know. Sometimes I think immigrants, we care, I don't know that we care a little bit more, but we tend to be a little more vocal when some of our rights, the rights that we went out of our way to obtain when those rights are taken away from us. [00:00:45] It's just crazy. Well, NBC also was behind a crackdown on the Federalist, according to Fox news. This is absolutely crazy. Now our friends over at Google said, Oh, no, no, not at all. We, we talked to the Federalist and, yeah, yeah, yeah. They've, they've straightened out their games, so we're not going to demonetize them. [00:01:11] Can you believe that? No, I'm glad to learn NBC news is the role in trying to stop the Federalist, from saying anything that might be conservative or libertarian heaven forbid. Right? it's just absolutely crazy here, but. Many members of the media out there are activists disguised as journalists. [00:01:36] It's just, it's crazy. They're not reporting the news. So I think they've just exposed themselves for who they are. Frankly. It's clear that they don't have any objectivity. Now it's become even more clear. Ben Shapiro was talking about that this week as well. There's the Federalists ended up taking down the comment section after Google deemed it dangerous and derogatory, that's the part that just blows my mind away. No, the comment section, that's kind of like the letters to the editor. I get it that it is more of the wild West, right? There are certain things newspapers would never have published, in the editorial section, certainly. and would never have published in letters to the editor. [00:02:27] So I, I get that. Right. But, and frankly, Looking at websites and some of the comments, some of these comments are just out, out outlandish. Unbelievable. So I get all of that stuff, but Hey man, we need an equal footing out there somehow. And I don't know, I don't know where to go. I have been using parler. [00:02:52] Or Parler, P A R L E R, which is a new app. It is also a website and it is really for free speech. That's what they're for. You can basically say anything on there. Obviously slander, libel, is not welcome there. But there are a lot of great conservative voices. So you might want to check it out. Parler, P A  R L E R  and I, I do think he came from Parler pronounced par-lay, which is a French word for all of that sort of thing. But man, things are, they've gone too far and I don't know what's going to happen. You know, the typical pendulums swing we've seen over the years may or may not work now. Some of our listeners are going to be dropping off because my whole show is not carried on all stations. [00:03:44] And so I just want to let you know, we're going to be doing deep dives and you may miss part of it, but you can get. All of it. If you go to Craig peterson.com online. [00:03:59] Okay. So we're talking about Go-to-meeting, Cisco's WebEx. We'll be talking about Microsoft Teams and Zoom. We're doing deep dives into all of these, and if you're on my email list, we're working right now. [00:04:15] On a special report that totally deep dives into all of this stuff and tells you the pros and cons. we're putting together a little table of some of the features on these. We might be adding a couple of others as well beyond these four, which are really the top ones out there. [00:04:35] We're not going to be getting into Slack really, because although that is somewhat of a collaboration platform and it does have some conferencing abilities, it's really not like the other ones. So I don't know that we'll really get into that one very much, but a Slack is something I've used in the past. I don't use it anymore. Cause I'm using Cisco WebEx, which has pretty much all of the features that Slack has, they were aiming for Slack parody in some of the angles. [00:05:05] Of course they're much better than Slack in some of the other angles. So if your station is dropping me off, make sure you're on my email list. Craig peterson.com/subscribe. I'll be sending something out. Probably this week, but maybe not until the week after where we get into these deep dives on these collaboration platforms, we may also be doing some lives on Facebook and on YouTube, maybe on webinars, you know, we'll, we'll figure this out. [00:05:36] Love me. No. How about we do this, everybody? What's the best platform for you? Send an email to me, M E at Craig Peterson dot com. You know, I answer all of them. It might take me a day or two or three because I do have a lot of emails I have to go through and I do try and answer them all personally, but send me an email. [00:05:57] It's me. M E at Craig Peterson dot com. I'm not going to be harassing you. Okay. And this is all wonderful free stuff. And it's the stuff you need to know to deal with. If you're on that at Craig peterson.com/subscribe, you'll be sure to get that email once we've got the special report on the collaboration systems, ready to go. [00:06:19] So we'll be sending that out. You can download it. I'm not somebody that's just going to be harassing you continually. if you're on my email list, you're going to get it. And you don't have to sign up for anything. You don't have to pay for anything. It's not part of some big upsell or anything else it's just there and it's there for you. [00:06:39] So Craig peterson.com/subscribe. We're getting, going into all of that here in just a few minutes, as I said, a lot of you guys are going to be dropping off. So before you drop off, I want to let you know about a couple of big issues this week. We already talked about it. Windows 10, 2004. Now that's not, when it was released, Microsoft has gone to this. [00:07:07] Basically they have daily internal builds and then they name the release after the build number. So it's 2004 and the major problem that's happening right now with their raid alternative. If you miss that, make sure you visit me online. Craig peterson.com or. Just subscribe to my podcast as well. [00:07:28] It's everywhere. And I described what it was, what it's all about, but we also have a major problem right now with D-link. You know, we are not upgrading our firewalls. We're not upgrading our wifi routers. Particularly in our homes. And how many of us as business people are using consumer-grade homes systems to try and protect our small businesses. [00:07:57] We see it every day. We just, just on a Thursday this week, I was talking. With one of our lead techs and he was helping a business that helps businesses with their networks and securities and backups. And it turned out that they had a major, major problem. That they weren't aware of at all until we installed some special security software, the stuff we use with all of our clients. [00:08:26] And we found out that his backup software was not anywhere near compliant with even the most basic of regulations. It's just crazy. But anyway, we have to upgrade the firmware in our routers. So right now we've got a new release from d-link that we're getting warnings about from everywhere. They've got a firmware update to address three major security flaws that are impacting one of their home router models. [00:08:58] They're not going to mention the model number because I want you guys to everybody, whether you're running on something from dealings or from somebody else, make sure you upgrade it. But, this is just crazy here. They've got a command injection attack problem. They've got a cross-site request, forgery high severity, by the way, both of these critical severities, it goes on and on they're pseudo-random number generator, major problem, by the way, not fixed, not fixed. [00:09:29] Anyhow, make sure he visited me online. Get on that email list. So you don't miss a thing. Craig peterson.com/subscribe. Go there right now, everybody. Hey, have a great day. If you're losing me, if not stick around, because we're going to be getting into this, we've got a lot more to come. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. 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Welcome! Craig’s walking you through a deep dive of the Pros and Cons of Online Collaboration Tools for Businesses and the Security implications for Businesses who have Regulatory Requirements.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: Twitter wants to know if you meant to share that article DHS Warns on New Exploit of Windows 10 Vulnerability FBI Says Sudden Increase in Mobile Banking Is Heightening Risks For Users What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Social Engineering UPnP flaw exposes millions of network devices to attacks over the Internet --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: We've talked about, go to meeting Microsoft teams. We've mentioned the WebEx team. We've mentioned Zoom. Now we're going to start delving into that even more. We're going to be talking right now about Zoom, the pros, and cons. It's probably the one you've been using. [00:00:23] How do I know it's probably the one you've been using because that's kind of been the default. Zoom has a lot of advantages and some serious disadvantages as well. So we'll talk a little bit about those, but the number one problem that we've had with Zoom over, frankly, the years has been security and lies. [00:00:47] Did you know that Zoom has misrepresented so many times about, their ability to encrypt what they're doing, where they're routing. It is been, it's just been crazy what these guys have been up to. So it is no end to end encrypted. Let's just start with that, which means that anybody who is potentially in the middle. [00:01:12] Which is by the way, Zoom itself is somebody who can listen in on the conversation. Now, remember what I said about zoom and that their developers are many of them. At least I think it might be most of them, but they're in China. And we had a big story that I don't think I ever really talked about on the radio here, but it had to do with China and Zoom routing people's phone calls to China, which was absolutely a huge thing. [00:01:46] Then zoom had excuses for it. Well, you know, we have data centers all over the world. We try and run them back and forth. Oh, okay. Yeah, exactly. I absolutely get it. But there are articles online, have a look at the intercept. For instance, they are generating their encryption keys in China for Zoom that's absolutely incredible. [00:02:11] Zoom has also just in the last week or so it's been exposed. They have been cutting off some of the Zoom user's meetings because China objected to China. I didn't want some of these people who were talking about China and some of the bad things China has been doing. And in reality, we haven't been talking about these anywhere near enough here in the United States, but Zoom. [00:02:40] Has capitulated to the Chinese government, the socialist over there. It's absolutely amazing. What has it been going on? And they're using some old versions of encryption that have been easily hacked. They've got the worst type of AES keys out there. Then, the researchers have confirmed that they're using 128-bit keys for their communications. [00:03:08] In other words, Even the encryption that they have, which is extremely limited, is extremely poor. It's just amazing. And they keep saying, Oh, you know, we're fixing it. Or we have fixed it. And they keep getting caught in what the media has been calling lies again. And again. And these encryption keys in China and routing the data through China and capitulating to what China wants them to do. [00:03:36] I don't know about you, but to me, that's a very, very big concern, right. These guys just have not been upfront and honest with people. It's, it's a terrible situation. Zoom is something I absolutely would never. Use for anything that really mattered. So if you're talking about some business process that might be confidential, if you're talking about some intellectual property things which is confidential business information. If you're talking about banking information, if you're talking to your accountant, if you're talking about anything that could be used by hackers or nation-States anybody malicious. Don't use Zoom. Now I get it. I understand why people used it. I have used Zoom and I'm probably still going to continue to use Zoom for certain things. [00:04:30] The big advantages to Zoom are. Number one it's easy to use and set up and manage. It is quite straightforward. Now. Unfortunately, unlike WebEx teams, you do have to install a client. You have to install software on your computer. Guess what? That's another area. Zoom has been caught doing some things that are very, very poor practices from a programming standpoint and nefarious. If you want to look at this through a slightly different lens, when it comes to Mac computers, they were installing a whole server on your computer that allowed remote access to pretty. Everything on your computer. Can you believe these guys?  It's really crazy, but you know, Zoom, you don't need its team to manage it. [00:05:18] You don't need to have somebody like me come in and get everything set up, help explain it to you. Cause there are not very many functions in it. There are not very many features. It's not like a WebEx team, the room, and spaces that can all be tied into other devices and get set up on your mobile devices. [00:05:38] And maybe like I have sitting right here, I have this amazing WebEx teams displayed. It's just absolutely amazing. We were using it yesterday for a meeting and it has a built-in whiteboard and I'm just drawing on this screen. It's it is really quite impressive, but. You don't need any of that with Zoom. [00:05:56] And that's why so many people went on and used it. And frankly, they've more than doubled in size over the last six months or so. It's been huge. So you with Zoom, you can get up to a hundred participants standard on your Zoom account. You can have a quick one-on-one meeting, which is handy. You have your own Zoom room. [00:06:16] In fact, the Zoom rooms have been where most of the Zoom bombing has been going on, where people drop in and just take pornography in the middle of your meeting. It's been happening for schools. It's been happening for everybody. Who's been using them by the way. If you're a school, don't use Zoom, get something good. [00:06:33] Get again, WebEx teams, Hey, listen, we sell it. We use it. We do that because we love it. Believe me. It's just phenomenal. You can have your meetings on Zoom phone webinars, chats on Zoom, which is really kind of handy. They do also have the ability to with browsers tend, excuse me, some of the meetings. They have conference rooms and mobile devices. [00:07:01] I really like conference rooms. That's what I used to run the FBI's InfraGard webinars for a couple of years. It works pretty darn well for that sort of stuff. Zoom also has some of these one-on-one or excuse me, all in one in appliances, which makes it even simpler to deploy, manage, and scale the room experience. [00:07:21] But again, Those all in one appliance have been found to be anything but secure. It's just crazy. These guys,, they just don't get it. They either don't know anything about security or they just don't care about it. Right. So these all in one appliance has it been shown from Zoom to be very, very insecure and it's very cheap. [00:07:46] It's inexpensive to do it. And it does have some integrations with Google and Microsoft. So you can use their app marketplaces over 200 integrations with things like Slack and PayPal and many others. In fact, that's what we did with the FBI InfraGard program. We had some that were paid, some of these meetings that were paid, and that went over like a lead balloon. [00:08:11] Let me tell you, but at any rate, that was kind of one of the final straws when I left doing that for the FBI InfraGard program, because so much of this information, I'm trying to get it outright. Why should people have to pay for some of these webinars where the presenters are, volunteers, like me running the webinars for the FBI InfraGard program volunteers, and then they start charging people. [00:08:38] And then there, they, in a couple of cases, they actually paid behind the scenes, the people who were doing the presentations, but for the most part, they weren't getting paid anyway. So I don't know, maybe that's a little inside baseball. Okay. Now, why am I still going to use Zoom? In some cases, Zoom is just what everybody knows. [00:08:58] It's what everybody uses. It just makes life so easy. And I think I would probably continue to use it for some people. Some people have a hard time with anything new, but you know what, now that the majority of people know how to use zoom, because they've had to, because of working from home. With the coronavirus thing, the zoom is going to be a platform that's going to be around for quite a while. [00:09:24] And yeah, it's got its drawbacks as I just talked about, but the fact that it's kind of ubiquitous, everybody knows that everybody can use it. Everybody has used it. It is not going away anytime soon. So stick around if you missed any of today's show, make sure you go to Craig peterson.com. You'll find it all there as well as on your favorite podcast app and stick around. [00:09:49] Cause we're going to talk about my favorite collaboration system when we get back. So stick around. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. 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Welcome! Craig’s walking you through a deep dive of the Pros and Cons of Online Collaboration Tools for Businesses and the Security implications for Businesses who have Regulatory Requirements.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: Twitter wants to know if you meant to share that article DHS Warns on New Exploit of Windows 10 Vulnerability FBI Says Sudden Increase in Mobile Banking Is Heightening Risks For Users What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Social Engineering UPnP flaw exposes millions of network devices to attacks over the Internet --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: We're going to finish up our discussion about Microsoft teams. What are some of the things you might want to use it for? What is this? How was it different from Zoom and everything else on the market? So let's get going. [00:00:21] Hi everybody. Craig Peterson here. Thanks for being with us today. I really appreciate all your comments to me M E at Craig Peterson dot com. A lot of people just respond to my weekly show notes. You get those by signing up for my email list to find out what's going on, what you should be doing, what free trainings we have, what paid courses there are. [00:00:46]We are coming out with a free again, free, free, free. I'm trying to help out here. It really is for you. Okay. A free, special report about all of these apps we're talking about today. So Karen's been working really hard on that with me, and we hope to have it out either this week or maybe the week after. [00:01:09] And it's going to be. Pretty detailed about some of the pros and cons when you should be using it, what policies should you have in place for your employees when it comes to these collaboration apps? So I think it's very important topic, you know, so many of us just knee jerk our way into this with the COVID-19 thing, and we needed something now, please, anything. [00:01:36] And we jerked into Zoom. Most of us, some of us started using Slack. All of these things are, are up in usage. In fact, WebEx had so many people applying for it because it's really the only one. If you're a business that you should be using. That they had to cut back. They were giving it away for free for like two or three months. [00:01:58]Even though they have a huge worldwide infrastructure, they still had some problems with the onboarding, getting everybody set up and ready. So there may or may not be free WebEx stuff going on right now. They're supposed to go. Maybe it was through the end of June until the end of July. I'm not sure what it is right now, but anyway, We're talking about Microsoft teams right now. [00:02:21] Okay. so as I mentioned at the very end with Microsoft teams, you need to integrate your Skype went and we already know Skype is not. Considered to be overly secure. It was actually a little more security before Microsoft bought it. And then Microsoft changed its entire architecture to one where it goes through Microsoft servers. [00:02:45] And that way, if you're in China, Microsoft can sensor you. Or if the law enforcement agencies in the US want to hear what you're saying, Microsoft can provide it to them and they couldn't do it before. So yeah. A little bit of resentment there. You probably noticed in my voice, right, Danielle, back to Microsoft here. [00:03:07] The second big thing is it has this integration that a lot of people are looking for with your business apps. So you can use word Excel, PowerPoint, one-note planners, share 0.1 drive. All integrated with Microsoft teams. And that is a huge win because all of that stuff is right there. Now the integration isn't as clean or as neat or as easy as maybe it should be. [00:03:36] But it is there and it will get better over time. You can still use all of those tools, word, Excel, PowerPoint, et cetera, et cetera, with pretty much any of these apps. They're all designed to be integrated to varying degrees, but Microsoft ultimately will win this battle. Because they own the source code, right. [00:03:58] They own the programs. They're going to take care of themselves first. And they've been sued about that before. So no, no news there. Next point, customized workspace, and every team is different. So Microsoft teams is customizable so that you can integrate it with third-party apps, as well as Microsoft apps. [00:04:21] You know, that's really the trend right now. I see that across all of the industries, Cisco has done an interesting thing, and that is a couple of years ago. They decided to do a policy called API first. Now Microsoft is not doing this, but the whole idea behind API first is. That I'm like Microsoft that tries to play everything close to the chest and give itself advantages over all of its competitors. [00:04:49] Right. And we've seen suits on that forever, like integrating internet Explorer, right into the kernels, supposedly. And so that you could not use other browsers. You always had to have a ye initially, and then they allowed other browsers, but you still had to have I E, and then the courts ruled against them yet again. [00:05:09] And so unlike Microsoft's approach to try and lock you in, Cisco has decided that they want to make. All of the Cisco software uses the same interfaces that third-party vendors have to use. And that is phenomenal when it comes to integration. So if you want to use WebEx or WebEx teams or any component of any of the Cisco stuff, including their firewalls and the routers, et cetera, et cetera, you can. [00:05:41] They've got API APIs for everything. Cause that's the only way they can access their own software. It says absolutely phenomenal. So Microsoft teams do have some third party integration available on it, which can be handy. You also get real-time communications, which as I mentioned can be a problem. [00:06:02] This isn't just true with Microsoft. This is true for WebEx teams and Slack and everything else out there. But it's real-time. So a smart person's going to do something different with email excuse me. something caught in my throat, but, email, you typically try and delay, right? I try and read my email once a day and that's it. [00:06:29] And if someone really needs to get ahold of me, but they probably know how to really get ahold of me. Right. So I'm not getting interrupted. I can work on the stuff I need to get to work on. No, I'm putting his stuff. Together for my lives for my webinars, for my radio show for everything else. And if I get interrupted, particularly if I'm doing some programming work, it can cost me hours of time. [00:06:56] So I put off email and only go through it maybe once a day. Sometimes I'll go two or three days without really paying attention to my email. So I apologize to you. If you send me an email and you're hoping for a quick answer, I don't always get back to you very quickly. Right. I have other people in my team that that's what it's for. [00:07:15] So when we're talking about communicating in real-time with some of these collaboration apps, It's a double edge sword. So instead of having emails, bouncing back and forth, which might take hours and hours, right? Because someone says something and half an hour later, another person reads it and responds. [00:07:36] Now, then that first person an hour later read to them a response, you can just have it go over very quickly. It's phenomenal for productivity. When you need quick productivity, the high priority initiatives that you have can really move a lot faster because it's not an email. It's not getting a push back while you were waiting. [00:07:57] This is really instant messaging. Think of it like texting, right? So everybody can be on the same page with these team's apps you can see who has seen your messages and people can respond to them. They can start a thread. normally how does it work? You're well, you might send an email to everybody. Giving them an update, right? [00:08:18]they reply to you, but maybe not to everybody that happens all of the time. I know people that I, you know, I expect them to copy all because I, you know, I've got two or three people on it that are need to know, and they don't, they just reply directly to me. with these types of teams, apps, everybody's on the same page. [00:08:39] Everybody can see everything. This conversation with email can split into a bunch of different conversations with ideas, being directed at one person when it really should be a group discussion. So keep that in mind as well. When you're considering some of these team's applications, everybody knows what's going on, what the status is, and productivity. [00:09:04] Just keeps flowing. You're listening to Craig Peter's son. I appreciate your being with me today. And of course, you can get me online as well. Craig peterson.com. Make sure you sign up to my email list. Kirk peterson.com/subscribe. And that gets you an email every week. Oftentimes it's Saturday mornings lately. [00:09:27] It's been more like Mondays, you know, summertime COVID-19 every excuse in the book, right. As to why it's been a little bit more delayed, but you know, expected by Monday. And it's got my summary for the week. It's got links to my podcast and also info about classes and courses and lives when they happen. [00:09:46] And then of course, here on the air, take care of everybody. We'll be right back, stick around. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Welcome! Craig’s walking you through a deep dive of the Pros and Cons of Online Collaboration Tools for Businesses and the Security implications for Businesses who have Regulatory Requirements.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: Twitter wants to know if you meant to share that article DHS Warns on New Exploit of Windows 10 Vulnerability FBI Says Sudden Increase in Mobile Banking Is Heightening Risks For Users What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Social Engineering UPnP flaw exposes millions of network devices to attacks over the Internet --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Well, we went into our first collaboration product and now we're going to get into our next product. And this one is actually more of a team collaboration rather than just a video conferencing setup. Really, as I mentioned, GoToMeeting's been around a long time, man. They'd has its pros and its cons and its pros really have to do with frankly how long it has been around, because that makes it more stable. Right? They've been addressing every problem. They've seen every problem in the last, my gosh, how long has it been for them? [00:00:43] 16 years. So Go to my meeting, a very, very stable product, something you might want to consider. [00:00:49] I want to move into our next collaboration tool, which is Microsoft teams. Now, most businesses today are using a whole array of tools. The reason I bring up Microsoft teams is because so many of us are using what's now called Microsoft Three 65. [00:01:12] It used to be called office 365, but now it's Microsoft 365, which is a little bit misleading because office 365, depending on which level you were on, gave you access to all of Microsoft office tools and where you could get windows as well, windows licenses, they pull it all under one roof and as would be expected from Microsoft or frankly, almost any company out there. The price has risen and dramatically in some cases. [00:01:47] So Microsoft 365 has some inexpensive offerings we're talking just dollars per month, or if you're an actual business that needs to get something done. Cares about having backups, cares about having an email with the proper email filters in place, and the cares to have some of these collaboration tools. [00:02:10] While now you're in the 30, 40, 50 dollars per person per month range, which is pretty high when you get right down to it. [00:02:20] Not out of the ordinary, not just a totally out of the question, but it starts getting much more expensive there, including things like Microsoft windows licenses themselves. So you can really make sure all of your software from Microsoft is up to date and that you have the appropriate licenses for it because many of us, unfortunately, Just just don't have that. [00:02:47] Right. What's one of the reasons that we're not keeping our software up to date. Well, one of the reasons that I've seen again and again, is that Microsoft charges you in order to get an update in an upgrade. [00:02:59]The first little bit of advice here is if you are a business, even as SOHO, small office home office, make sure you get the enterprise versions of Microsoft 365. [00:03:12] And typically those start with an E and I don't recommend anything less than an E3 and it goes up from there there's three and four and five and there's one and two and stuff. they change it frequently. So who knows this week, right? It might've changed. And I didn't notice, but either three is where you want to start. [00:03:32] And that's going to give you access to all of the basic stuff that you need. Now. Typically we'll put a Cisco email firewall in front of Microsoft and their outlook and exchange servers. The reason for that is the Cisco email filters, just so much better than the stuff Microsoft offering. Plus you also can still use, and you still do use the Microsoft filters, but once they've gone through those incredible Cisco filters, those Microsoft filters, just frankly, don't add up to much, not much at all. [00:04:10] That's what we normally do. But a lot of companies, they just stick with the regular Microsoft stuff. Now I get questions a lot of the time about Google and whether or not they should get to Google because Google has their Gmail, but they also have offerings for businesses. I have mixed feelings on that, but basically I say, No! [00:04:34] Don't use the Google tools. Google has been decent at security. No question about it better than Microsoft that's for sure. Microsoft security is not their product. Let me tell you, but remember the Google's product is you, even if you're paying them. They are watching your emails. They are selling that information and who knows whose hands it ends up in, even if it's supposedly anonymized. [00:05:02] That doesn't mean it's truly anonymous data. That data can be de anonymized. We talked about that on the show before. So we're talking about Microsoft and if you already have a Microsoft license, like the older office, 365, or the newer licenses that are known as Microsoft 365. You have the option of getting Microsoft teams. [00:05:28] And that's what a lot of people have done. They saying, Hey, listen, we're already using all this Microsoft stuff. We're just going to start using teams. Now I have to give a kudos to Microsoft because they have come a long way. Their software was terrible for years for a decade or more, just terrible. They would put every feature under the sun, into their software. [00:05:51] Not that it worked, but people, when they're doing a selection, they're not looking for what they want. They're trying to eliminate the things they don't want. So if you're a vendor and you have some things missing in the mind of your prospect, You're not going to get that sale. It's just not going to happen. [00:06:12] So Microsoft would throw everything, including the kitchen sink into their software. And most of them had a lot of bugs. Now Microsoft still has tons of bugs, still tons. It's crazy. And those bugs drive me nuts. Sometimes it's like the moment we talked about at the top of the show, major, major bug in some of their software, that's supposed to keep your data secure, basically from hard disk crashes and from data loss. [00:06:41] And in fact is barely done the exact opposite. So I'm not a big Microsoft fan, but they're tools that they've been developing more recently for online have been a lot better than anything they've had before. I guess that's faint praise, right? Because what they had before was just so terrible, but anyhow, Microsoft has their teams app. [00:07:06]A lot of businesses that are already using Microsoft have said, well, we'll just use their teams because you know, it's Microsoft and that's the employee they have used since day one, they tried to build up a name for themselves. They destroyed competitors by having people just waiting because they knew Microsoft is going to come up with something. [00:07:27] So we'll just wait and see, because Microsoft announced something that not only did they not have in development, but apparently. We're barely even thinking about and just trying to put the competitors out of business and test the marketplace. Right? That's that's what it is. So where are you using this businesses today? [00:07:45] A whole bunch of different tools for communication and collaboration and Microsoft teams. It might be something not just for your business, but if you have a nonprofit or a small family businesses, something you might want to look at. Because teams is designed to be collaborative and it does tie in a lot of Microsoft's other tools. [00:08:07] It allows you to deploy it company wide and that can help to bring together employees. Now it can also make it so that your employees can't get anything done because they're constantly getting notes and messages from other employees, but. If your employees get some decent training and you kind of help them out that overload that can come with some of these teams tools can basically go away. [00:08:34] So here's a few different ways that using a team tool could help you out your business. One company-wide chat, which is kind of handy. It helps you to get your overall company message into the hands of all your employees. That's a very good thing. And that chat functionality is one of the main value adds of a team's application over something like Slack, that designed more for some typing back and forth, or some of these other things like go to meeting or zoom that are designed primarily for you to hold a meeting. [00:09:13] All of the teams, apps, Microsoft, and WebEx, both have what's called threaded conversations. Now you'll see that in Slack where someone will make a comment in a channel, and then you can have a thread off of that comment. So that people that are looking through the channel or the space or whatever it's called and the software you're using, don't have to see all of the comments about some. [00:09:39] Main item that's in there. So threads that's important to have and Microsoft and WebEx teams both have that everything's recorded in one easy to find place so that all of your conversations are right there in the channel. You know what they are, and you can find them. A WebEx teams recently has set it up so that, yeah, everything is right there in that space, but it also has a separate set of tabs that let you look at just the files that were uploaded or just the meetings that took place in that space. [00:10:15] I love that about WebEx. There's no more digging through your inbox, looking for emails or just all of a sudden there's 50 emails that come in because. Everybody had a comment on an email that somebody else sent. So you don't get that mail bomb when you're using these teams apps. And that helps a lot making a, you know, a filter because we're so overloaded in all of our lives. [00:10:42] Now, your conversations in these team maps can take place as a team discussion, or you could have private chats or private meetings. It really, this changes everything. If you haven't used either Microsoft teams or WebEx teams, and there's the ability to integrate Skype, to have audio and video conversations. [00:11:02] That's true in Microsoft teams. If you're using WebEx teams, you have much better options. And we'll talk about those in a, an upcoming segment here. let's see, I think next segment. Yeah. Next segment. We're going to finish up a discussion about Microsoft teams. There are still a few more things we need to talk about. [00:11:21] We're going to also get into Zoom's pros and cons. What can you use zoom for? Why did I use Zoom? I still use it. And why? Both for marketing and for business and for family. So we'll talk about all of that and some other options that are out there that Google has. And also Apple has some just amazing things. [00:11:44] What you can use to communicate securely and privately all of that right here and online@craigpeterson.com. Stick around. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. 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Welcome! Craig’s walking you through a deep dive of the Pros and Cons of Online Collaboration Tools for Businesses and the Security implications for Businesses who have Regulatory Requirements.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: Twitter wants to know if you meant to share that article DHS Warns on New Exploit of Windows 10 Vulnerability FBI Says Sudden Increase in Mobile Banking Is Heightening Risks For Users What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Social Engineering UPnP flaw exposes millions of network devices to attacks over the Internet --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Now, we're starting to talk about collaboration systems, the things you can use, like I did for a wedding, and people are using constantly now for business. Which are the best ones? What should you be using? You know, it's time for us to get our act together because we are back in -- business. [00:00:23] I think we're going to start here with the oldest one. The oldest is Go To Meeting. We'll start there because it's actually the most mature in some ways of all of these products. What we're going to talk about is the pros and cons of different features. You're going to want to look at them and the problems with 'em. You know, and that's part of the pros and cons. [00:00:44]Since we're starting with Go To Meeting, let's start about the con, okay. The basic con for this is, it is only really for meetings. It lets you do some collaboration in meetings, but it is really mainly for meetings, unlike the two teams product we're going to be talking about as well that are for ongoing collaboration and meetings. [00:01:10]Go To Meeting here's the big, big things that you're going to want to consider. First of all, it is the easiest to use collaboration product on the market, even though it is aimed mostly at meetings, it lets you collaborate during those meetings. It has video conferencing in high definition and it just plain works. [00:01:35] They have been able to, because they've been around so long, really master the whole concept of high availability and high bandwidth streaming to multiple locations.  There is nothing better on the market today when it comes to having the ability to have conferences and meetings with people that might be on very slow internet lines that may be sharing their home internet with users who are watching TV. You know, they're streaming Netflix while you're trying to have a meeting, what's a matter of these people. [00:02:13]Go To Meetings is very good for that sort of thing and again, very mature product. It provides generally a great experience for people who are on it and because it's the oldest, it is well understood in the business world. Now it's not that well understood how to use it by a lot of people who are new to this online space. [00:02:38] Those people are most likely to use Zoom. And I'll tell you why. I just used Zoom just a couple of weeks ago at my daughter's wedding, but this is one of the big reasons is Go-to-meeting is known. It's used a lot by business and has been for a very long time, but it is not well known by end-users. So, you know, you've got to consider that as well. [00:03:07] You know, how well is it known by people, but it is pretty easy to use. And it started in 2004, they use the screen-sharing technology from GoToMyPC and go to assist and they have changed ownership back in 2017, I think it was, it became a product of Logmein. I know a couple of the founders over there Logmein. [00:03:30]So kind of a small world, I guess when you get down to it, Now Go-to-meeting also supports mobile users. Cause it's allowing people to attend meetings on Android devices, as well. As of course Ipads and Iphones and you can host go to meeting very well on an iPad or an iPhone. It's really, this is a business-centric product, very business-centric, as are some of these others, these team applications. [00:04:01] Now you can achieve a significant return on investment because of the features that they have. They've got HD faces video. They have a flat fee, but I got to say. Of all of them go to meetings. Fees can be pretty high. So it depends on whether or not you need that kind of high availability flexibility when it comes to the devices that you're watching it on, et cetera, pretty easy to manage a lot of administrative capabilities. [00:04:32] It combines this practicality with cost-effectiveness and it has. Very good security. Now Zoom, when we get into it, I'm going to have a lot of complaints about security and how Zoom effectively has lied to us over and over again. You're not going to see that with GoToMeeting, Zoom routed these meetings through China, Zoom uses Chinese developers, which is all well and good, except remember that in China, almost everything is owned by the people's liberation army and is run by it. So when they're routing meetings through China, There are some problems with Zoom, Go-to-meeting. Doesn't have any of that. We'll talk about the Zoom stuff when we get around to Zoom here, but it is very good on the security side and it is something that you can use to increase sales. [00:05:29] You know, me guys, if you have been following me for a long time, you know, I run webinars, these free webinars, right? In some of them, I offer some products for sale. In some of them, I offer some information products, some hardware products. You know, we talk many times about what you should be doing as a business, not using some of the home equipment for a small business because that can be a nightmare. [00:05:56]I'll have webinars and I'll talk about it and I'll make an offer for people who want it. Right.  I don't do anything high pressure, but that's something to consider. When it comes to Go-to-meeting, is there something that you want to offer and would do well in a webinar Go-to-meetings at a great webinar platform. [00:06:16] I use a product called, a Webinar jam for webinars. I have really liked it because for having webinars where I'm interacting with people who are really potential clients or just trying to learn. I like, I like Go-to-webinar for that, but it's not secure. That's where you get Go-to-meeting.  [00:06:39] So let's talk about three big things Go-to-meeting has that you might want, it is great for presentations, so it can help you with, if you're a sales, professional marketing professional, to get prospects and gauge target audiences and qualified leads. Now we use Go to a meeting, you know, I've been involved with the state reopening I'm on the governor's task force for reopening schools. [00:07:07] Of course, I'm on the technology task force. We used Go to meeting it. Wasn't my choice. It wasn't my account. It's something the state had. It worked really well for that. It's also great for demonstrations. So if you are a sales rep of some sort and you want to conduct live demonstrations of products for prospects or give one-on-one impromptu presentations during cold calls. [00:07:34] It's a great way to do it a very easy way to do it. but I gotta say. I have a little bit of a preference for Zoom for those types of meetings where you are just doing something impromptu because so many people now know Zoom. Okay. But go to meetings. It's been good for that for a long time. It's good for collaboration. [00:07:57] Every professional who wants to collaborate in real-time can get on there. It worked really well for us and the governor's task force and Go-to-meeting can grow so that you have thousands of people at a meeting as well. All right. You can share any application on the presenter's desktop, even if the application is not installed on the attendee's computers, and we're seeing this more and more Zoom still requires an application to be installed, but a WebEx does not and Go-to-meeting does not. [00:08:32] It'll just run right there in your browser. And I think that's a very important thing because who wants to install software, particularly in this day and age where you don't know if it's legitimate or if it's malicious, et cetera. On the followup side. There is an extra trip that people have to take some times, but Go-to-meeting has some really great stuff for followup. [00:08:58] It lets you put URLs over in the chatbox that can stay there. So if there are some materials you want people to get pumped. Right up there in the chatbox and it stays there even though the chatbox may be strolling scrolling, I should say that goes right to the top of that chatbox, which makes it really nice. [00:09:20] And well, I've used that many times where I'm doing training with GoTo meeting where we've got a URL that we want people to see. So there it is. And that's part of the thing I like about webinar jam as well as I can put things out there. I can have links, I can put graphics in there and it just stays there. [00:09:40] So it, it does help you with converting leads, tie up loose ends, review contracts, closed deals a lot faster. So Go-to-meeting. Great alternative. Been around a long time. 2004 is a long time, particularly in this space, and is something you should seriously consider. And I consider it as well. I tend to not use it, frankly. [00:10:09] Because I think people nowadays are much more in tune to use Zoom. Now that's great when it's initial talking, but if I am doing something with a prospect that we have a. A signed contract with, even if it's just a nondisclosure agreement, I would never ever use Zoom for those. I use WebEx for a very, very good reason. [00:10:37] And you can still get it for free by the way, WebEx, I think it's through the end of July, I might be wrong on that, but the real commercial versions, like the ones that we use where everything's integrated. You must, must sign up through a reseller. We're a reseller of that, just, you know, just to make sure I've got all my proper disclosures, in fact, sitting right here, right next to me right now. [00:11:04] I've got this demo unit. That is, it's just absolutely amazing from our friends at Cisco and Cisco owns WebEx. Now they have for a while, but this thing is just so cool. It's a 27-inch display and it is set up. It's got a camera on the top. Of course, it's an HD camera and they also have the 4K cameras and everything right here, it's a touch screen. I've got a whiteboard I can make phone calls as well as get into my WebEx rooms and conferences and chat rooms. It's it's dedicated. It is just absolutely amazing. It also ties in with our phone system, which we have. We have a WebEx phone system that lets us make private call secure calls, end to end, as well as get on calls with people who are outside of our business. So it's very, very cool. I think this is like a $12,000 device. It is not cheap, but it's very, very cool. [00:12:08] Most of the time I'm just using either my computer, or my phone or, my smartphone with WebEx. It just, it ties into everything. It's phenomenal. [00:12:17] We've been talking about Zoom. We've been talking about WebEx and some of the real pros there. And we're also going to be talking about Microsoft teams when we get back. So keep an eye on that. And when I'm talking about WebEx, by there, I'm talking about WebEx teams, not just the stuff for video conferencing. [00:12:35] Alright. Stick around. Visit me online. Craig peterson.com is we're losing some of you guys right now. Again the station's going away. Craig peterson.com/subscribe. And you can hear the whole thing. Stick around. We'll be right back.   --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

In this episode of The Blue Couch, we are joined by Elvis Kafilongo and Chanel Long, both professionals in the field of Instructional Design and Online Course design. With years of experience, they share the importance of encouraging online collaboration. We explore the benefits, fundamentals, and practices that come effectively creating an environment that cultivates and fosters online collaboration. Join in on the fanatical learning! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thebluecouchpodcast/message

Distance learning has quickly become a new way of life. Stillwater Schools have taken a collaborative approach to eLearning so that the band program remains unified pedagogically grades 5-12. Stillwater School District Band Faculty Dennis Lindsay, Band Director, Stillwater High School Michael Walk, Band Director, Stillwater Middle School Megan Holroyd, Band Director & Vocal Music, Stillwater Middle School Robin Vought, Band Director, Oak-Land Middle School Joel Bryan, Band Director, Stillwater High School, Aston Lakeland Elementary, Brookview Elementary, Andersen Elementary Mara Syman, Elementary Band Director, Rutherford Elementary, Lake Elmo Elementary, Stonebridge Elementary and Lily Lake Elementary --- Show timings: (00:00) Introduction (03:37) Online Platforms with examples of use (16:45) Overarching goals for High School Students (18:18) Goals for Middle School and Elementary Students (20:21) Assessing the student's work and progress (27:27) What we have learned and what might stay following COVID-19 (32:05) Closing And that wraps up this episode. If you enjoyed this episode or any other episode, please consider leaving a review on any of the platforms that you listen to the show on: Apple Podcast, Anchor, Breaker, Spotify, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, and Pocket Casts. Your reviews, with or without written feedback, help get the word out about the show. Thank you again for listening. Other Resources Show Hosts Jerry Luckhardt https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/luckh001 Bradley Mariska https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradley-mariska-63ba2855 Stillwater Bands https://stillwaterbands.net Facebook Website (Band in Minnesota) https://www.facebook.com/Band-in-Minnesota

Join us for our latest Highlander Chat with Amit Panchal '09 MBA, Director of Competitive Strategy at Microsoft as we discuss competition in the online collaboration space.  Support this podcast

Hey, #GrowGetters!Today we dive deep into the world online collaboration. Are you trying to plan for the future? Collaborate with a partner? Brainstorm with your team via Zoom? We certainly are - and we thought there have to be some awesome hacks to make this “new norm” easier for us all.We will kick off today’s episode with a mastermind framework we absolutely love, we cover the basic tips and tricks to help you and your team brainstorm online and we run through some of the hottest collaboration/ brainstorm tools we’ve worked with and found.At the end of the episode, we hope to come away with legit tips and tools so you can get your online brainstorm on!! Because right now - its the only way for us to collaborate.Our episode recommendations this week included:ONLINE CONCERT: Global Citizen’s ‘Together At Home’TOOL: Miro (Online whiteboard options)TOOL: Stormboard (Online whiteboard options)TOOL: Sketchboard (Online whiteboard options)TOOL: Conceptboard (Online whiteboard options)TOOL: MURAL (Online whiteboard options)TOOL: GoToMeeting (Video Conferencing options)TOOL: Zoom (Video Conferencing options)ARTICLE: Why Brainstorming Groups Kill Breakthrough Ideas (and What to Do Instead)TOOL: Slack (Online Collaboration tool)So strap yourselves in, grab your notebook, make your fav bevy, and let’s get started!Plus...If you want some more sweet sweet inspo, check out our Insta page and please follow us at @growgetterspodcast !! :)And if you’re still hungry for more, we've got a MONTHLY BUMPER NEWSLETTER that'll keep you up-skilled and up-to-date on all the latest tips, models, and trends - so sign up at www.growgetterspodcast.com/newsletterYour hosts are:Award-winning brand strategist and writer, Tanya Garma (@tanyagarma)Forbes-listed startup founder and entrepreneur, Tiffany Hart (@tiffanyclairehart)

If you’re familiar with Trello you’re right there with me. But if not, Trello is task management, online collaboration and project management tool that is essential to getting stuff done with VAs. In this episode I will walk you through the process I used to set up trello boards complete with workflows and due dates, to publish three books in one year! To hear the full podcast, head on over to Spotify, iTunes or any other pod player to listen to the full podcast!LINKS & RESOURCESOnline Workshop Course (Register for my online course where you’ll learn step by step how to build your virtual assistant team) ROI Calculator (Use this quick tool to see how much you will save by hiring a virtual assistant)FREE Guide (In this guide, I offer a few suggestions on easy tasks to outsource and a canned template to instruct your VA how to do the task)FREE Worksheets (these will help you to uncover objective tasks to outsource to VA’s)Job Description & KPI TemplatesUncover Tasks to Delegate to VA’s!Facebook Group (Join the group to tune in on Facebook live broadcasts and more) ASK SwagSam ANYTHING: Email is Sam@CloneYourselfU.com and you can book a FREE Strategy call with me by going to Calendly.com/CLONE.THANK YOU!To Gettin Goin,Sam AKA SwagSamPS: WORKSHOP COURSE - Learn how to work less, make more and play more by building your virtual assistant team! Are you ready for my full blown process? Are you ready to take the leap and actually get the transformation you know you need? If you’re ready to learn my step-by-step process on how to scale your business by working with VA’s, then you’ll want to join the online course!Forget about the overwhelm, in this workshop I’ll be guiding you every step of the way to ensure you have success and can begin to breathe again. Learn more by checking it out on the link here.

The #WomenKnowIT squad discusses the buzziest of IT buzz phrases: online collaboration. We will talk about what online collaboration actually means, why online collaboration is so important in IT, and what tools are available.    Follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @Women_KnowIT Follow our squad on Twitter: @margaret_hahn; @_lorenamora; @kellyfweiss; @msyentllove

LINE MØRKBAK is a Global Consultant and Learning Professional and the Founder of Global LEAP Consulting. She give sclients suggestions on how to revamp traditional management tools; how to utilize the cultural mix of global and local teams; how to harness the productivity of dispersed, virtual collaboration as well as introduce Improv techniques to build trust among leaders or team members. For more stories visit https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com. 

Today we have such a detailed episode for you, that we’ve had to split it into two, for practical distribution reasons. This is part two of two These shownotes for both episodes are available at  http://virtualnotdistant.com/podcasts/collaboration-dangers) -because it really is just one big conversation. Collaboration platforms - the dangers Too much information, vs “fear of missing out”? How do we stay on top of all the messages in our platforms, making sure we don’t get overloaded, while not missing anything vital? What if you get back from a holiday or an illness and there are 400 alerts…? Your team agreement needs to specify what to check, as opposed to what you can let go, or the best way to catch up on the conversation after a break. And your team agreement needs regular review to ensure relevance and that it’s continuing to serve you well.  Your team changes, and so does the tool (for example you might want to consider the appropriateness of animated emoji use, non-trivial for any users with dyslexia, or whether our emoji-sets are too culturally exclusive anyway).   Too much text Some of us type better than others do, and might also need to get comfortable with a speed vs accuracy tradeoff.  Remember you can dictate, you can record audio, you can record video.  You can use photos, of drawings or even handwriting. Draw your own emojis!  While we can’t customise the platforms themselves, and how they look and feel, but our culture and team personality can really emerge quite creatively. But, if it’s an important communication which might need to be referred back to or found in search, then text - which can be dictated text - is the only thing really searchable/indexable, for now (soon the AIs will be able to search our audio for keywords easily). So do consider that when choosing how best to post. Episode 153 should we be talking or typing goes into more detail on this.   Always on We need to choose a collaboration platform with good mobile tools, but we do need to remember to ensure those boundaries between work and non-work.  When your collaboration tool is there on the homescreen of your personal mobile phone, you’re never away from it. Richard Mackinnon discussed on a recent Work Life Psych podcast ‘my phone, where’s my phone!’, how truly addicted to our devices we are.   And sometimes we are left anxiously waiting for responses, in the same way as we crave our Facebook likes - is this person confused, annoyed, or just responding asynchronously when it suits them best?  The reward-centres of the brain that overthink these things have made the social networks billions, but do we want this effect in our work communications? Managing hostility This article from Workable about hostile work environment signs and fixes led us to think about how signs of bullying, harassment or oppression become visible (or not) in the online workspace, and an interesting Twitter thread emerged as a result.   Conflict at work might be less obvious to others, but conversely it is easier to provide evidence of when communications are digitised. There are lots of issues here about whether this is done ‘officially’ or not - this article from People Management, Do you know what your employees are saying in private messages? discusses this in depth from a policy point of view, but everyone should remember that nothing in the digital space is truly secret. It’s important that everyone knows how to discuss difficulties and with whom, and that people get to know their online colleagues as whole people and develop their own support networks.  And while there are apps which can help highlight inappropriate communications, (such as the one described here in Venture Beat Valued raises $1.7 million for Slack chatbot to combat workplace harassment), there are dangers in abdicating any of these responsibilities for team wellbeing and safety, to a tool or app. So many issues to think about, when it comes to our collaboration platforms, whether we call them chats or digital hubs or our online offices… we need to use them well, use them right, because these ARE our workplaces now. We conclude this episode with a lovely anecdote about two very creative people communcating asynchronously, in an unusual setting… but you’ll have to listen to find this little gem, which reminds us just how many different ways there are to communicate. Don’t forget to keep communicating with us! About your collaboration platforms, or any other aspect of remote work.  You can message us directly, you can tweet Maya or Pilar or the Virtual Not Distant account at any time, to keep this conversation going - asynchronously of course.  

(Rebroadcast) This week at Insights Summit 2019, our guests Nick Indeglio and Jon Ross are two of our keynote speakers. To celebrate, we're taking another listen to this episode of Field Trip from 2018. Being a principal can be isolating. Here’s how two principals began to use podcasting, blogging and social media to connect with colleagues around the world — and the impact it had on their schools. Nick Indeglio and Jon Ross are principals at Downingtown Area School District in Pennsylvania. While carpooling, they would often have conversations about their jobs — being instructional leaders, leading a building, and the impact being principals had on their lives and marriages. Those conversations eventually turned into a regular podcast: The Rock Star Principals. Our conversation with Nick and Jon looks at how principals and other education leaders are using technology to share new ideas, serve their teachers and staff, and implement world-rocking strategies in their schools. Field Trip is a podcast from Frontline Education.

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Being a principal can be isolating. Here’s how two principals began to use podcasting, blogging and social media to connect with colleagues around the world — and the impact it had on their schools. Nick Indeglio and Jon Ross are principals at Downingtown Area School District in Pennsylvania. While carpooling, they would often have conversations about their jobs — being instructional leaders, leading a building, and the impact being principals had on their lives and marriages. Those conversations eventually turned into a regular podcast: The Rock Star Principals. Our conversation with Nick and Jon looks at how principals and other education leaders are using technology to share new ideas, serve their teachers and staff, and implement world-rocking strategies in their schools. You can find the Rock Star Principals’ Podcast at their website and on YouTube. Field Trip is a podcast from Frontline Education.

LUCIUS BOBIKIEWICZ is a trainer for distributed agile teams at SpreadScrum.com in Berlin, Germany. He has managed globally dispersed teams – with members from Indonesia, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom – using just online spreadsheets. For more stories, visit www.CollaborationSuperpower.com.  

In this episode of the Nerd Stalker podcast, Adolfo and Greg talk all things small business applications. We run down what a small business, team, family or individual can use to take their game to the next level. Solutions mentioned: * 17:27 File sharing - Hightail, Google Drive, Dropbox, Air Drop, Ghump, Younity, Backblaze B2, Evernote * 05:30 Instant messaging - Messages, AIM, Twitter, Facebook, Slack, Twist * Audio, web, video conferencing/chat - Google Hangouts, Facetime, Loom (side note some people using https://appear.in/ Facebook for this and Echo/Dot now has a voice mail type feature) * Scheduling - Meetingbird, Google Cal

On the Digital Production Buzz, Larry Jordan talks with guests Cirina Catania, Melissa Davies-Barnett, and George Olver. Does Collaborating in The Cloud Actually Work? Arc 9: Online Collaboration and Workflow Tools Movidiam: Worldwide Rolodex and Project Manager Randi's Perspective: The Latest from 2016 Oscars Tech Talk: Optical Flow Inside Premiere Pro CC WATCH FULL SHOW The post Digital Production Buzz – March 3, 2016 appeared first on Digital Production Buzz.

Online collaboration is a hot topic, and the Internet has made it both easier and harder. In this episode, we'll look at the principles and tools of online collaboration, so you can do it more efficiently and effectively. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How can staff and visitors collaborate using online technologies to deepen encounters with the museum? What are some of the rewards and challenges of online collaboration? Hear past examples and current questions from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

On-line collaboration has some things in common with face-to-face collaboration, but it also has some important differences. If you and your team are working this way for the first time, you might not be aware of the potential pitfalls. In this episode, we share our six principles of on-line collaboration, and then work through a case study. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What happens when you leverage the power of internet volunteerism in much the same way as Wikipedia, but with the intention of translating and subtitling videos? This was the question that Dean Jansen wanted to answer when he co-founded Universal Subtitles (now Amara), a collaborative platform that allows for accessible and user-friendly subtitling of videos. Universal Subtitles replaces previously laborious tasks such as time-syncing with much easier tools, drawing inspiration from popular game interfaces. With over 40,000 videos already subtitled and key partnerships with PBS, Al Jazeera, and Khan Academy in place, there is no doubt that the model has a growing user base. In this audio interview, Sheela Sethuraman asks Dean Jansen about the organization’s first 18 months, winning the Tech Museum’s 2011 Catherine Swanson Equality Award, and the challenges of scalability and quality assurance moving forward. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/leveraging_online_collaboration

Mario Rosas discusses the use of WebEx for online collaboration.

After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. In this talk, he shares how his ambitious new project, Duolingo, will help millions learn a new language while translating the web quickly and accurately -- all for free.

Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, discusses online collaboration and organization, including social media usage on mobile devices and changes in organizational structure.

Intro: In this podcast we discuss the growing array of online collaboration tools.Mike: Gordon, because I'm in New Jersey and you're in Massachusetts, we've had to rely on online collaboration tools quite a bit. What are some of the tools we use most often?Gordon: If we look just at what we're doing today. We use Skype - the free VoIP client to record these podcasts and we use Google Docs (docs.google.com) to write, edit and share the scripts. In fact, I use Google Docs to collect material and write my blog - ictcenter.blogspot.comMike: Although it's not a new tool, we also use email quite a bit.Gordon: Yes - email is still a very important tool, but more and more we seem to be communicating with other tools such as Twitter and Text Messaging. The iPhone really lends itself to quick communication with email, Tweets, and IM.Mike: Twitter and Google Docs aren't the only options.Gordon: No. in addition to twitter, there are micro-blogging services Jaiku and Pownce, although if you compare the three using Google Trends, we see that Twitter is by far the most popular of the three.Mike: What about Google Docs.Gordon: It's what we use, and probably the most popular, but there are alternatives, including Zoho, Thinkfree and Zimbra. Again Google Trends gives us a nice snapshot.Gordon: There's been some movement with some of these tools.Mike: Yes. Zimbra was purchased in September by Yahoo, and Thinkfree is having some issues with leadership and possibly looking at a change of direction.Gordon: Are there some new online collaboration tools?Mike: Robin Good Online Collaboration Technologies - New Tools And Web Services - Robin Good's Latest News has a great listing of some new online collaboration tools and services. Good also points to Kolabora www.kolabora.com - a great resource for news and information about online collaboration.Gordon: Mike could you give us an overview of the tools Good describes.Mike: Sure - the article describes eight new online collaboration services, including: Tokbox: http://www.tokbox.com/ is a free web-based video conferencing application that enable you to have one-to-one video meetings online. With the service, you create a video room and invite someone for a video conference. You can even embed the conference room on your web-site, or blog. I think this is a great tool for providing technical support, office hours, access to a librarian, or even college counseling.Gordon: What else?Mike: SeeToo: http://www.seetoo.com/ On the surface, SeeToo a free web-based application for sharing videos with friends and family doesn't seem that novel. What makes SeeToo unique is that you don't need to upload your videos - instead you select a video (any size) from your computer, invite others to watch, and click play to start watching together. It's like you're running your own streaming server! SnapYap: http://www.snapyap.com/ Similar to ToKBox a free one-to-one video conferencing room. Create a personal video conference room, invite anyone to join - SnapYap users just enter their username, others get an email with instructions to enter the room.TeamViewer:  http://www.teamviewer.com/ TeamViewer is a free (for personal, non-commercial use) Windows-only application that allows you to share your screen and control someone else's PC. After downloading, you start the program without any installation. You have a code and password you can provide to others to view and control your PC, and similarly, they have a code/password combination they can share with you. Other features include chat and the ability to transfer files. Possible applications include helpdesk/desktop support, application demos, and distance education. FlickIM: http://flick.im/ FlickIM is a free Web-based instant messenger application that allows you to connect to all major IM services (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, GoogleTalk, Jabber, ICQ). Seems very similar to an existing service - meebo. Includes video, audio and other add-ons, as well as an iPhone friendly interface. Meebo has also customized their interface for the iPhone.Loudtalks: http://loudtalks.com/ Is a free, Windows-only download-able application that gives users walkie talkie-like ability to communicate with one another with the touch of a single button(F7). Versions are being developed for other platforms, including mobile phones.AirTalkr: http://airtalkr.com/ Similar to FlickIM, AirTalkr allows you to access multiple IM networks. One major difference is access to Web 2.0 services (Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, and Myspace). AirTalkr is runs within Adobe's AIR (cross-operating system runtime; hybrid web/desktop applications) - Windows and MAC, and also as a web-based application. Looks like the download version doesn't work with the current version of AIR. Here's a screen grab: Global IP Video: http://www.globalipvideo.com/Global IP Video has a free web-based (no downloads, no installs) video conferencing tool MeBeem (http://www.mebeem.com) that uses flash to create video conferences. In a browser, create a room, share it, and click to connect. Not sure how well it works, and seems a little like the wild west. Here are a couple screenshots: