My TechDecisions

Search Results: google meet

Slack Canvas

Slack CEO: Stories, Instant Audio Coming To Slack By End Of 2020

With videoconferencing fatigue setting in, Slack is eyeing ways to help teams connect and collaborate without having to hop on a long video call.

October 8, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Slack is reportedly adding new features to its platform that will introduce social media-like stories and push-to-talk audio by the end of the calendar year. In an interview with The Verge, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield detailed some of the new features the platform wants to bring to its users to help them better acclimate to […]

Read More
Asynchronous Collaboration

Why Asynchronous Collaboration is Just as Important as Videoconferencing

If those long video calls are doing more harm than good, consider moving some of your remote workforce's workflow to asynchronous collaboration.

October 6, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

In the early days of quarantine and the COVID-19 lockdowns, teams relied heavily on video calls and other collaboration tools that required everyone to be doing the same thing at the exact same time. That means a remote worker on the West Coast would have to get up early for a 9 a.m. call on […]

Read More
Bose 700 UC

Bose Releases Noise-Cancelling Headphones 700 UC in U.S., Latin America

Bose's new Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 UC are certified for Microsoft Teams and compatible with both Zoom and Google Meet.

September 25, 2020 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Bose Professional this week announced their Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 UC are now shipping in the U.S. and Latin America and will also be available in Asia and Europe in September and October, respectively. Certified for Microsoft Teams and compatible with both Zoom and Google Meet, the NCH 700 UC “equip users for better collaboration […]

Read More
Zoom Rooms User Interface

Remote Work Helps Zoom Quadruple Revenue in Q2

Boosted by the rapid shift to remote work, Zoom posted a massive second quarter with revenues rising by more than 350% year-over-year.

September 1, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Zoom has posted the results of what was expected to be a gigantic second quarter, and the web conferencing giant didn’t disappoint. The company reported an exponential increase in users. Although it did not detail the exact number, the company said it has 370,200 customers with more than 10 employees, In April, Zoom said it […]

Read More
Avocor Microsoft Teams Collaboration Display

Avocor Releases Microsoft Teams-certified Collaboration Display

Avocor announces the AVW-6555 Windows collaboration display, the first certified for Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Azure IoT.

August 25, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft Teams is helping enterprise employees around the world stay connected and productive throughout the coronavirus pandemic, and we’ve seen hardware manufacturers buy into Microsoft’s certification program and release devices certified for the company’s flagship unified communications and collaboration app. That now includes collaboration display firm Avocor with the release of the AVW-6555 Windows collaboration […]

Read More
virtual classroom setup

Miami University’s DIY Virtual Classroom Tech is Impressive

This incredibly inventive -- and DIY -- virtual classroom setup at the Miami University might act as a template for similar schools.

August 10, 2020 Brad Myers Leave a Comment

In light of the coronavirus, distancing, and the remote classroom, all of us have been scrambling to not only finish a semester, but now to embark on a hybrid virtual classroom setup.  If we rest our laurels on the mainstream of AV technologies, the industrial solutions get very expensive. My goal?  To produce a very portable, […]

Read More
Unified Communications ROI

The ROI of Unified Communications: Simplicity, Mobility, Productivity and Continuity

If your organization hasn't considered an investment in unified communications, you could be missing out on these returns.

August 4, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

For many businesses, unified communications tools and platforms have been a lifeline through the coronavirus pandemic that they didn’t realize they had. To have voice, chat, video, email, and a range of other communication tools and applications are unified under one platform is helping many survive and adapt to changing work environments, increase productivity, reduce […]

Read More
Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams Could Be the ‘Sleeping Giant’ of Videoconferencing Wars

The world was introduced to a litany of videoconferencing solutions earlier this year, but some UCC experts say Microsoft Teams will come out on top.

July 14, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Over the last few months, the world got a crash course in videoconferencing and collaboration technology. With remote work now part of our culture, platforms like Zoom, BlueJeans, Lifesize, Webex, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams have become a must have for most organizations that typically reported to an office setting. However, Microsoft Teams, which is […]

Read More