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JIMINY SELF-HELP HANDBOOK 7

Conference Calls Platforms
Today, in the business world, video conferences and remote meetings are more than frequent. In the
globalised world in which we live nowadays, with contacts, suppliers and members of our network
thousands of kilometres away, it is common to take advantage of the capacity for interaction in real
time offered by the internet to hold business meetings or conferences through online platforms.

Holding meetings through electronic means also has other advantages, such as reducing the costs of
business trips or visiting clients abroad, making much better use of working time, favouring the
availability of all parties by being able to specify and modify the date according to the needs of the
working group, as well as the possibility of holding much more working meetings than if they had to
be held necessarily in person, since a video call to discuss a certain problem at work hardly involves
any effort and can be arranged at any time.

Learning how to use these tools is therefore crucial for the professionals of the future. Now we are
going to look at several different free alternatives and their characteristics, as well as the general
functioning of this type of platforms.

We will start presenting the solution provided by Google: Meet. The way it works is very simple: simply
with a Google account, we can organize a meeting and share an invitation through a link. During the
meeting, as it can be seen in the screenshot below, we can activate or deactivate our webcam and
microphone, as well as share our screen, part of it or attachments.

The main advantage of Meet is that no software needs to be installed and therefore we can use it from
anywhere in the world with any device we have at hand with an internet connection. The quality of
the calls is good and we also have a written chat to write down any information to our colleagues.

Source: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/04/high-quality-video-audio-meet.html

Another alternative to Google Meet is Zoom. This software has become really popular recently, due to
the quality of its calls and the professionality that the whole interface inspires when using it. Its
functionability is similar to the other alternatives: we can create a meeting (which, in this case, we can