Hey, fellow presenters -
Since the pandemic, I have been ZOOM-ing my presentations. I issue the invitation, I use my account, I am in charge of the whole show. My wife works the “Chat Box” and watched for questions and late arrivals for me.
The ONLY time I let another club “run the show” it was a disaster. They made a few techie errors … all would NOT have occurred if I had initiated the whole thing.
SO, my question: Are you initiating your meetings yourselves? Or are you finding being set up as “co-host” is working OK for you? There are a couple sound bytes in my session - so sharing full-screen and sharing computer sound are mandatory (all OK when I run it).
Thanks.
Clint K6LCS 951-903-4129
Hi Clint,
Perspective of a club VP (so, in charge of presentations), so perhaps a view from the other side of the camera...
We run the meeting using the club's account, and the guest presenters connect in. When it's time for the presentations, as VP I introduce them, they share their screen, and take it from there. After the Q&A we carry on with more meeting stuff. Using the presenter's account would be unwieldy, if even possible. The presentation is part of the overall meeting, not the entire event.
Any "techie errors"? Sure, once in a while. We record the presentations for the club's YouTube channel, and "fix it in post" is just part of the deal. Snip out the lock-ups, folks with unintended live mikes, etc. I sometimes highlight stuff that may not be clear in the original. You do what you can; no complaints after that.
Remember, this is a hobby, not the IEEE. Sometimes the less formal the presentation, the greater the chance for interaction with the audience, and everyone appreciates the live nature of the event. It's not worth raising one's blood pressure over.
Greg KO6TH
Clint Bradford via AMSAT-BB wrote:
Hey, fellow presenters -
Since the pandemic, I have been ZOOM-ing my presentations. I issue the invitation, I use my account, I am in charge of the whole show. My wife works the “Chat Box” and watched for questions and late arrivals for me.
The ONLY time I let another club “run the show” it was a disaster. They made a few techie errors … all would NOT have occurred if I had initiated the whole thing.
SO, my question: Are you initiating your meetings yourselves? Or are you finding being set up as “co-host” is working OK for you? There are a couple sound bytes in my session - so sharing full-screen and sharing computer sound are mandatory (all OK when I run it).
Thanks.
Clint K6LCS 951-903-4129
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Are you using Zoom?
Guest speakers presentations - with sound - coming through just fine?
My problem may be that I need to know Zoom better …
THANK YOU for your comments.
Clint K6LCS
On Feb 3, 2021, at 8:54 PM, Greg D [email protected] wrote:
Hi Clint,
Perspective of a club VP ...
As a consumer, I host and run Zoom meetings as president of several local ham clubs. I run the club business presentation first, then mute everyone and then let the presenter share their desktop (co-host). I watch and occasionally do some "moderation", but we haven't had any problems.
We had Bob Heil speak recently (he was awesome) and he was switching sound from device to device constantly to do some live demos with absolutely no problem. He also had several video feeds he switches between with no problem.
As a presenter, I've done two presentations for different clubs. They were the Zoom host and there was no problem. I also switched between two different webcams and my desktop during my presentation with no issues.
-David, N9KT
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 9:46 PM Clint Bradford via AMSAT-BB < [email protected]> wrote:
Hey, fellow presenters -
Since the pandemic, I have been ZOOM-ing my presentations. I issue the invitation, I use my account, I am in charge of the whole show. My wife works the “Chat Box” and watched for questions and late arrivals for me.
The ONLY time I let another club “run the show” it was a disaster. They made a few techie errors … all would NOT have occurred if I had initiated the whole thing.
SO, my question: Are you initiating your meetings yourselves? Or are you finding being set up as “co-host” is working OK for you? There are a couple sound bytes in my session - so sharing full-screen and sharing computer sound are mandatory (all OK when I run it).
Thanks.
Clint K6LCS 951-903-4129
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Clint said:
My problem may be that I need to know Zoom better …
I'm no zoom expert, but there are a couple tricks that I have learned. But first, to your original question: I have always done presentations as a guest (not the zoom account owner), sometimes with me running my own slides, and sometimes with the host running them). I prefer to run my own largely because I can use my dual screen setup and see the timer, speaker notes, next slide, etc., but also to "make my own mistakes".
The two tricks I know: First is actually a PowerPoint hint. When you load a presentation in PowerPoint, depending on the contents (like if you have an external link that plays within a slide) you will get a not-to-obvious warning that you have external links and a question of whether to enable them. This is before you go to presentation mode. Be sure to enable them if you have to.
The other trick is that when you share your screen, you have a less-than-obvious choice (same place you select a window to share if I remember) to also share your audio. This is how you ensure that the sound from whatever video you might be showing goes directly to zoom.
But you may know all that. I suspect that part of the guest-running issue may be what level of Zoom the host has bought. There are lots of different features that the less expensive options don't have (like multiple hosts at one time, for example).
I hope this helps. My apologies if it is obvious.
73,
Burns WB1FJ
Hi Clint,
Yes, currently using Zoom. In the past, we've also used GoToMeeting. Very similar (they all are), but Zoom has a feature (Polls) we needed for doing club business.
We made the switch to Zoom only last September, and none of the presentations since then included a video with sound. But, I don't expect there would be any issues doing so. I recommend you do a quick test before hand, just to familiarize yourself with the interface. You might grab one of the free accounts as a surrogate "conference host", so you can try it locally.
Others have given some good tips (thanks! I learned a few things). This may be platform dependent (I'm on Linux), but one additional tip is to share the entire screen, not just the application (Power Point, or whatever). When you start the Slide Show, that's considered a different "application", so you may be looking at the slide show, but everyone else is still seeing the application in edit mode. Also, do get the native application. You can do most things through just the web interface (including screen sharing), but some things aren't available. Consider the web interface as a backup.
Good luck, and have fun.
Greg KO6TH
Clint Bradford wrote:
Are you using Zoom?
Guest speakers presentations - with sound - coming through just fine?
My problem may be that I need to know Zoom better …
THANK YOU for your comments.
Clint K6LCS
On Feb 3, 2021, at 8:54 PM, Greg D [email protected] wrote:
Hi Clint,
Perspective of a club VP ...
I second Greg KO6TH - make sure you are running the actual app and not the web version - it gives you more features and I think it works better. -David, N9KT
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 1:31 PM Greg D [email protected] wrote:
Hi Clint,
Yes, currently using Zoom. In the past, we've also used GoToMeeting. Very similar (they all are), but Zoom has a feature (Polls) we needed for doing club business.
We made the switch to Zoom only last September, and none of the presentations since then included a video with sound. But, I don't expect there would be any issues doing so. I recommend you do a quick test before hand, just to familiarize yourself with the interface. You might grab one of the free accounts as a surrogate "conference host", so you can try it locally.
Others have given some good tips (thanks! I learned a few things). This may be platform dependent (I'm on Linux), but one additional tip is to share the entire screen, not just the application (Power Point, or whatever). When you start the Slide Show, that's considered a different "application", so you may be looking at the slide show, but everyone else is still seeing the application in edit mode. Also, do get the native application. You can do most things through just the web interface (including screen sharing), but some things aren't available. Consider the web interface as a backup.
Good luck, and have fun.
Greg KO6TH
Clint Bradford wrote:
Are you using Zoom?
Guest speakers presentations - with sound - coming through just fine?
My problem may be that I need to know Zoom better …
THANK YOU for your comments.
Clint K6LCS
On Feb 3, 2021, at 8:54 PM, Greg D [email protected] wrote:
Hi Clint,
Perspective of a club VP ...
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Thank you all for your hints and tips.
When I am in control, I just feel better (g).
And, as we all know, one only has ONE chance to make a great first impression …
Clint K6LCS
If you are having audio issues try toggling the "True Audio" setting. It ships be in top left of the screen when you in a meeting. This was a common issue during CWOps Academy.
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021, 00:46 Clint Bradford via Fieldops [email protected] wrote:
Thank you all for your hints and tips.
When I am in control, I just feel better (g).
And, as we all know, one only has ONE chance to make a great first impression …
Clint K6LCS
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