Two more magazine articles about hybrid meetings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On March 18, 2021 I blogged about A very interesting magazine article on how to conduct hybrid (live plus online) meetings. In that post I referred to an article in the March-April 2021 issue of NSA Speaker magazine. The January/February 2022 issue of NSA Speaker magazine has another article on pages 18 to 21 titled Hybrid May Be Here to Stay.

 

There also is an article by Bob Frisch and Cary Greene at Harvard Business Review on June 3, 2021 titled What it takes to run a great hybrid meeting. They mention the following eight best practices:

Up your audio game

Explore a technology boost

Consider video from the remote participant perspective

Make remote participants full sized

Test the technology in advance

Design meetings for all attendees

Provide strong facilitation

Give each remote participant an in-room ‘avatar’

 

I have been impressed by how Chris Frye runs hybrid meetings on Zoom as the Sergeant-at -Arms for the Pioneer Toastmasters club in Boise. As shown above, Chris uses two cameras: one following the speaker (aimed at the lectern), and another aimed at the audience. Each camera connects to Zoom via its own laptop.  I attended last night’s meeting online rather than in person. Initially the audio was fine, but then it dropped out. I immediately mentioned that on the chat, and Chris quickly got it back again.

 

The composite image of a Zoom meeting contains faces from page 29 of Cory J. Campbell’s 1912 book, The Cartoonist’s Art, in Which the First and Last Word is Spoken (at the Internet Archive), and a cartoon and audience photo from Wikimedia Commons.