“Video conferencing is one of the first things you need to get right for effective collaboration.” – Srini Koushik, Chief Technology Officer, Magellan Health Nowadays, it’s hard to imagine our life without video conferencing. Significant company culture improvements enabled by video conferencing include quality of communication
, degree of engagement
, effectiveness of teams
, degree of understanding
, […]

As they say, seeing is believing. We think this is especially true when it comes to video collaboration technology providers and the video quality they/we all tout. Amazingly even something like “video quality” can be relatively subjective from one person to the next. What is bad, what is good enough, and what is truly great? […]

¡Hola amigos! ¿Cómo están? Zoom es el mejor del mundo. Clearly, we’ve been brushing up on our Spanish for next week’s Gartner Symposium/ITXPO, November 6-9, at the Centre Convencions Internacional Barcelona. The Symposium is one of the largest in the world, with 6,000+ CIOs and senior IT executives, attending to gain a strategic view of […]

Gartner has named Zoom a Leader in the 2016 Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing. This is the second time Zoom has appeared in the Gartner Magic Quadrant; we received Visionary status in last year’s report. The criteria used by analyst firm Gartner to evaluate companies selected for the Magic Quadrant evaluation included completeness of vision and […]

Where has the appreciation for non verbal communication gone? We have an innate desire for social interaction; to talk and be heard, to listen and understand, to share and learn, to see and be seen. This is especially critical within a business context, when we are concerned with the success of various business operations rather […]

Have you ever had the feeling you’re being screwed over? It might be at a car dealership when they’re talking about undercoating fees and extended warranties. It might be when the sales person tells you that the dress you’re trying on gives you “Michelle Obama arms,” when you know they actually look like two giant […]

Goodbye Offices If you’ve been to a Silicon Valley company in the past few years, you’ve probably noticed one thing: private offices have disappeared, even for many executives, replaced by open configurations of sitting and standing desks. There is a hard reality behind the reconfigurations: real estate costs have risen, leading to a significant drop […]

We’ve heard ‘em all. Myths about Zoom, myths about video conferencing. We’re here to set the record straight by debunking the top five myths we’ve heard one-by-one. Consider this MythBusters: Zoom Edition! Myth # 1: Video Conferencing Software is all the Same When a company comes around to the fact that hardware video conference systems […]

Video conferencing has come a long way since the days when state-of-the-art webcams were only capable of delivering a picture with an anemic resolution. And that wasn’t so long ago. We’re talking about progress that has been made over two decades. But once you put that all aside, the state of video meetings is still […]