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What Bad Zoom Calls Reveal about Strategic Philanthropy
By: Daniel Silverman
Tags: Zoom, Nonprofit, Philanthropy, Strategic Communications, Social Impact

Listening to Andy Goodman talk about bad Zoom calls got me thinking about the challenges of strategic philanthropy. Let me explain.

Andy was the guest on a recent episode of the Let’s Hear it podcast. (If you do communications for nonprofits or foundations, this podcast is a great source of ideas and inspiration.) In the nonprofit space, Andy has been the preeminent speaker/trainer on improving presentations and meetings, and telling more compelling stories. Going back 20 years, he has trained thousands of nonprofit leaders. I wouldn’t even hazard a guess as to how many thousands of hours he has saved nonprofits by helping them avoid bad meetings, unnecessary meetings, agendaless meetings, bad PowerPoint slides, horribly PowerPoint slides, no audience interaction, Zoom calls with no zip, and many, many more mistakes we have all committed (I certainly have). Andy’s teachings are based on all kinds of research. They are tested and they work.

Photo by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash

Here’s the problem: The impact Andy is having is about 97 steps removed from the impact the organizations he works with are seeking in the world. It is a long and winding road from better meetings to better educational access or improved racial equity. If a grantseeker included “our PowerPoints don’t suck” as evidence of impact in a grant proposal, I’m not sure they would be taken seriously.

And yet. Improving meetings and presentations is really about respecting the most precious resources that nonprofits have: their talented and overworked staff. Improving storytelling is really about respecting the audiences that advocates are trying to reach and influence. Better meetings, better presentations, less suck-y Zoom calls: All of these make the work more effective and free up untold hours for nonprofit leaders so they can do the actual work that leads to impact.

So, what does this mean for strategic funders who do expect their grantees and grantseekers to provide evidence of impact? Here are a few ideas:

Be open-minded about how your grantees define and measure impact. Some of the most effective social change tactics are not linear and require a willingness to connect the dots.

Invest more in organizations, not just projects. Organizations that have the bandwidth to improve their ways of working are more effective organizations. It’s not just about covering overhead (that’s also needed); it’s about improving the organizational health of your grantees as a goal in itself.

Being strategic and being flexible is not an oxymoron. It might take a bit more time and a bit more trust, but it is more strategic to allow organizations to invest their resources in ways that might only be tangentially related to ultimate impact. It indicates a willingness to listen deeply to grantees and not force them into the tidy boxes that we create in our strategy documents.

Whether you agree with my ideas or not, I do recommend listening to the episode. It’s fun and it’ll remind you that Zoom calls don’t have to suck.
Should I use Prime Lenses or 1 Superzoom to rule them all?
By: Will Mosley
Tags: Filmmaking, Vlogging, Zoom, Superzoom, Bokeh

There’s a lot of talk about the benefits of a prime lens. Sharper images, better quality. Easier to use in low light. Etc. All of these are true but when you’re a run and gun filmmaker like myself, where capturing the moment is more important than the absolute best image, zoom lens are queen.

Specifically, the Canon 18–200mm 3.5–5.6 IS.

I bought this lens to grab the entire range of wide to super zoom. I sacrificed the sexy f1.8 you can get with a nice prime lens over the ability to frame the shot on the fly.

The key with superzooms is to use the highest focal length whenever possible to get that creamy compression that will simulate what a 24mm f2.8 or 50mm f1.8 can pull off.

I’ve found the best results at:

35mm (easy to pull off)

50mm (obviously)

80mm (best)

135mm (best)

All of these recreate that nice bokeh (blurred background) most are looking for and keep the subject focused.

Throw it down to 18mm or 24mm when you need to point the camera at yourself.

Lastly, keep your ISO UNDER 800, ideally 100 whenever possible, or you’ll notice grain sneak in super quick. And shoot on a neutral picture profile and boost the saturation and stop the exposure down a notch in post and you’ll generate some sexy images just as good as a bag of prime lens.

Here are a few more thoughts on superzooms:
Five Remote Employee Productivity Tools
By: Vishal Srivastava
Tags: Zoom, Productivity, Slack, Productivity Software, Remote Work

Slack: Real time team communication app Slack is a boon for improving remote employee productivity. It’s great for any team but more so for teams with remote employees or contractor. It brings all your communication into one place and integrates with other tools you already use. Setting up Slack is easy and using it is even easier. It’s your virtual office and using Slack is like sitting in a room with your team members.

With Slack, you stay on top of your team’ work schedule. You can identify and address issues quickly. Team members can seek and provide help in real time. More than anything else, it brings everyone together and builds team bonding. All this helps in keeping your remote employees productive

Zoom: When employees don’t sit in the same office, the conversations can become a little impersonal. Zoom solves that problem by putting a face to the voice (or email).

Video chats have a way of bringing together teams that no other tool can replicate. It makes everyone feel that they are one and working towards the same goal.

Screen sharing solves a major challenge with text based communication. You can show and explain the documents, conduct live training and also do customer demos. While there are multiple video calling options, I prefer Zoom because it’s super easy, does not require me to be connected to the other person and there is no latency. Of course, it helps that its free.

Asana: Every remote team needs a project management tool to mange coplex projects and tasks. Asana is one of the simplest project management software around.

Asana allows you to organize to-do lists, projects & meeting information, conversations, and emails in an easy-to-read dashboard. Team members can stay on top of all information allowing you to quickly identify issues that need your attention.

Asana is especially useful for managing remote workers or contractors as they are able to stay in touch with the rest of the team. Asana is free for teams up to 15 members. You can get access to all features like data export and additional dashboards by upgrading to paid plan.

Zapier: If you have ever tried to make different tools and software work with each other, then you would love Zapier. In a few minutes, you can integrate tools that would have taken weeks to do without Zapier.

You can connect almost any software using Zapier. It saves both time and money. But more importantly, it makes your team more productive by automating manual tasks. It also helps you get real time visibility into work so you can measure your team’s productivity

HiveDesk: Tracking time and output is important for measuring productivity, especially for remote employees. HiveDesk can automatically track time your employees spend on projects. It also takes screenshots at random intervals that you can use to provide your employees feedback.

HiveDesk can help increase productivity of your team by ensuring your employees work on the right tasks, tracking project progress and measuring time spent on each project.
Deep zoom image in expo
By: Daniel Fernando
Tags: React Native, Expo, Zoom

Zoom in high size images working very well

zooming in a big image

The problem

While developing i needed a very specific tool, zoom deeply a big image (like 10.000px x 10.000px), then i found problems like out of memory and image definition.

I found some good projects in github to zoom images and it works very well (react-native-image-zoom and react-native-image-viwer) but only for small images.

Another problem: this resource must works offline.

The solution

I needed a zoom of 6x for example but with the maximum quality possible and nothing so far solved my problem. After very search and study, i found an Article about adding offline capabilities for MapView in Expo, then i had an idea, use react-native-maps to zoom my image. Using the custom tile overlay of the maps, i created my own tiles and override the default map images solving my problem working for Android and iOS.

Lets code:

First of all, my original image must be a square. Then just calc the sizes and offsets for the tiles according with map region and zoom and crop it.

In this example i downloaded a high resolution image, after each onRegionChangeComplete a function calculates which tiles are necessary to display in viewport and if it must be generated using the device processing. see it in Github. More one point, the image manipulator in android can cause loss of quality in the generated tiles.
Waterworth — An Aurelia-Based Application
By: Jared Middleton
Tags: Typescript, Zoom, Waterworth, JavaScript, Aurelia

Waterworth — An Aurelia-Based Application

What Waterworth Is

The company I work at, Waterworth, builds Financial/Asset Management software for water utilities in North America.

Our tool is a web app built on the Aurelia and .Net Core Frameworks; I hadn’t yet joined the company when they picked Aurelia as the framework to use, but it has had a significant impact on the work I do here, seeing as I’ve spent the past two years working with Aurelia.

I can’t say anything negative about Aurelia. It’s a strongly-built framework which has made my job a breeze (at least when I’ve used it properly); the Aurelia core team is friendly; and the few times I’ve had issues, there’s been someone from that team who reaches out to me pretty immediately.

Why I’m Writing

Recently, I was adding a new plugin, aurelia-dialog, which led me down the rabbit-hole of updating our (not-particularly-well-maintained) npm packages. Things went from bad to worse as I gradually got our packages re-aligned, but I still couldn’t get the app to load in my dev environment. I wasn’t seeing any errors anymore, but the homepage still wasn’t even loading.

I was running out of ways to debug it, seeing as I couldn’t find anymore errors / info to work off of. So I went to my default, StackOverflow, and posted an absurdly long question begging for help: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54660423/webpack-unable-to-find-module-with-id-main-aurelia-app

My grasp for help was rather vague, considering I didn’t know what exactly was wrong. I wasn’t even sure whether it was a Webpack issue or an Aurelia issue.

Thanfully, Binh Vo came to my rescue. As he was fairly certain it was just a minimal configuration mismatch, and was very quick to come to my aide.

We started up a Zoom call, and he was poking around my main.ts and webpack.config.js, offering suggestions and point out how I could get more debugging info.

Between our two Zoom calls, he was able to point me to all the debugging info I could need. In addition to correcting a grievous mistake I had been making — leaving Warnings hidden in the chrome debugger console. 😬

In case there’s another poor soul out there reading this whose Aurelia application isn’t loading, and they’re not getting enough debugging output to figure it out. I’ve gotta at least share what Binh showed me.

In main.ts:

export function configure(aurelia: Aurelia){

//1) wrap this function in a try-catch! right up to the return

try{

aurelia.use

.standardConfiguration()

.globalResources()

// ... etc } catch (ex){

console.log(ex)

}

//2) make sure you've also got a .catch() down here!

return aurelia.start().then( ... ).catch(ex => console.log(ex))

}
Using IPEVO document cameras with Zoom
Tags: Document Camera, Video Conferencing, Presentations, Zoom, Remote Working

Having an online video conference using Zoom? Add an IPEVO document camera to your setup and enjoy the additional presentation options it brings. Be it a Mac, Windows PC or Chromebook, it still works. And with its USB plug and play feature, it can be easily set up.

Thanks to its multi-jointed stand and swiveling head, you can position it to capture at different heights, angles, and orientations. Need to show a document to the other party? Simply adjust the stand and camera head to point at the document. You can even zoom in on the document using the *tactile buttons located on the body of the document camera. And when you need to use it as a webcam, just swivel the camera to point at your face. It is also possible to show your face and any document simultaneously using Zoom’s Share Screen function together with IPEVO’s free Visualizer software. To do so, you’ll first need to open Visualizer software to display your document, then use Zoom’s Share Screen function to share the live feed from Visualizer while using your computer’s built-in webcam to capture your face. To learn more about how you could use IPEVO document cameras with Zoom, check out the following video.

*Note: Tactile buttons are only found on IPEVO VZ-X and VZ-R document cameras.
1(888) 256 1911 Zoom.us/forgot_password — Reset your Zoom Password
By: Elizbeth Smith
Tags: Zoom, Forgot, Password

Zoom.us/forgot_password — Reset your Zoom Password

Zoom.us/forgot_password

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oh, I forgot My Zoom Password.

What!

Don’t Worry, Read this post

If you forget your Zoom password, you can easily reset it.

Before password reset

Have an activated Zoom account with email and login password

Password requirement

8 characters or more

One or more characters (a, b, c …)

One or more numbers (1, 2, 3 …)

Contain both upper and lower case letters

However, the following passwords can not be registered.

Enter with only one type of character (11111111 or aaaaaaaa)

Enter as consecutive numbers or characters (12345678 or abcdefgh)

Password change method

Move to zoom.us / forgot_password

Enter your email address.

Click Send.

Next Display will be shown like –

You will receive an email with a link to reset your password. Click on the email link.

Enter a new password.

Enter your new password again to confirm.

Click Save .

. Your password will be reset and you will be able to log in to the Zoom web portal. Click [ Go to my meeting ] to go to the web portal.

Note: You will receive an email notifying you that your password has been reset.

Common Zoom password Reset Problem- Should be Known

The case where the password can not be changed

The Zoom account does not exist

If you receive a message stating that your account does not exist when you try to reset your password, this means that the Zoom system has your work email address associated with the email address you entered and your login password is Means no.

Please check the following points again.

Verify that your email address is entered correctly

Try logging in with Google or Facebook

If you have a Business or Education account, try logging in using Single Sign-On (SSO) with your vanity URL (eg zoom.us)

Resetting a New Password

Forgot your password? No worries. The reset password option is a viable solution for your problem if you are the owner of your account. Follow the steps given below to change your password.

Follow the link zoom.us/forgot_password to change your account password.

Type your mail address in the box. Select Send to get an email.
Digital Events — an Overview of Software Options Curated by a Pro
Tags: Digital Events, Disruptive Tech, Zoom, Covid 19, Events

Digital Events — an Overview of Software Options Curated by a Pro

At Disrupt Network we are hosting 2–3 digital events every week with 80–500 participants. Our focus: all things disruptive tech. Our mission: Building communities and connecting stakeholders for an exchange of ideas. Jan Follow Oct 6, 2020 · 2 min read

TL;DR: scroll down to the table.

The world of tech events has come a long way since the great offline exodus into the realms of the Internet. Disrupt Network has built Meetup communities and disruptive tech conferences. Then came COVID and with it the necessity to move our operations online overnight. Unsure what exactly the best format would be, we took 2 weeks to try out every digital event software available. In the end we came back to — Zoom. But we are still on the lookout for innovative ways to bring people together digitally.

Below we have selected our top 3 digital event software tools and how we use them — as well as the complete list of tools.

1. Zoom

The killer feature of zoom is the massive concurrent user numbers combined with the ability to join via a web browser (no installation, no sign-in, no passwords).

2. Gather.town

I have not really seen a reason to not use Zoom, except 1:1 networking and interactivity. The coolest alternative here is gather.town. People can join, just like in Zoom, via a web browser without having to signup. The closer one walks with the little character to another, the louder one can hear them, allowing people to drop in and out of conversations. Only downside: the Gameboy-styled design and the playful interface might not be for all people.
It Starts and Ends with People
By: Tribeca Venture Partners
Tags: People Management, Zoom, Startup, Healthtech, Venture Capital

Anthony Onesto, Chief People Officer at Suzy

“Without People We Have Nothing”

We have a company value at Suzy, “Without People We Have Nothing.” It truly works for us at Suzy since we depend on people within all facets of our company (especially during this new normal). People power our technology, run our marketing efforts, sell our software, take care of clients, make sure we are operating, and ensure that our people are happy. People answer questions on our platform that clients ask to learn more about what those folks are thinking. It’s a symbiotic relationship across our company. So, both symbolically and practically, without people, none of this works.

So when I first started with Suzy, we realized Suzy needed a framework that would govern how our leaders lead and how teams would interact with each other. I looked around, read tons of different practices and leadership books, and reviewed my previous coursework. I then read Radical Candor by Kim Scott. This was it, the simple model that would dictate how Suzy would operate, both from a leadership perspective, but also from team member to team member.

“Care Personally and Challenge Directly”

The premise is simple in its structure — care personally and challenge directly (always). It’s a two-axis diagram that I love for its simplicity (see below). I have read about leadership techniques and other methodologies that would require even the savviest leader to scratch their heads in confusion: boxes, potential, personality tests. For folks to adopt a leadership methodology, it has to be effective but also rooted in simplicity. This model meets both of those requirements.

“Assume Nothing & Validate Everything”

We also need to make sure we bring a bit of quantitative and qualitative analysis to our People Operations. Sometimes we seem to be shooting darts in the dark by taking guesses on what our teams want or listening to experts, but rarely truly listening to our own people. Suzy has a Ritz Carlton-like listening program to ensure that all People Operations team members and leaders listen very carefully to employees. We can pull out specific needs and wants out of these conversations, coupled with a quantitative approach through a survey system called Peakon.

We combine these two efforts and attempt to not only surprise and delight our teams, but also provide them exactly what they want and need at the moment they need it. It would be counterintuitive and a bit hypocritical for a company built on getting real-time feedback from consumers to not use the same mechanism to understand the needs of its team members. We like to say “Assume Nothing & Validate Everything,” which is expressed in all our People strategies.

Feel free to contact me for more information on people operations and how we’ve been managing through this uncertain time.
Emotions in the age of Memes
By: Kaylenn Gomez
Tags: Mind, Emotions, Memes, Zoom

2020 has no doubt been one of the hardest years. From the sudden death of famous NBA player, Kobe Bryant, to fighting the current global coronavirus pandemic, and with elections around the corner, we can easily forget to take care of ourselves. Our health, whether it’s physically, mentally or emotionally, it’s important to make sure we are protecting it. Often times, our way of escape is by looking at memes. Whether it’s political or not, memes have a way of stating exactly what we feel. They can make us laugh as easy as they can get us mad or even educate us on certain things. Memes have the power to get us out of our “filter bubbles” by educating us on other communities or perspectives. An Xiao Mina shares in an interview that using a private browser will give us the opportunity to search memes or anything else, and get the thoughts and perspective of the opposite of what we usually search for. When speaking about memes, an xiao mina says, “take care of yourself, and make sure you’re aware of your emotions.” Hearing this brought comfort in some way, because it reminded me that although I’m trying to keep up with the current viral memes, my emotions, come first. I come first. Meedan

Zoom life 2020
I Found It! — A Simple Game for Zoom
By: Gloria Liu
Tags: Games, Zoom, Zoom Game

I Found It! — A Simple Game for Zoom

The game is called “I Found It!”. I pre-documented the basic procedures so that players can follow easily:

We open zoom (with video) and a Google doc We come up with a list of objects together (reachable in home) 3, 2, 1 — — we go find it and bring it back to video The first of us who brings it back and types “1” in the chatbox wins for this round. The person who first wins for 3 rounds wins the game. (Exact number depends on number of players)

The game can finish in 5 minutes, and is suitable for 2 players(or more, but some adjustments needed)

Observations

During the actual playtest, I also joined so there were 3 players in total. We came up with 3 objects as listed, due to the time limit:

Spoon🥄 Coffee mug☕️ Eraser♦️

And we playtested on “spoon”. It turned out to be a lot of fun, with “3,2,1,start” and we all launched ourselves like a rocket and rushed towards the kitchen to fetch a spoon. One of us who lived in a studio and sitted several feets from the kitchen won the round.

One observation that I think makes this game a lot of fun is that I added the rule “types 1 in the chatbox”. This way, not only you have to be familiar with the locations of objects, but also familiar with Zoom so that you can type when you are finished asap. I actually lost the game because I was a bit slower than our winner.

Another one is that the essence of this game is competition, and winning or losing in a competition can bring participants strong feelings — either the joy of win, or the desire to win for another round. This simple and straightforward core of competition makes the game attractive.
Zoom problems with Catalina MacOS Screen share Permissions
By: Neha Gupta
Tags: Catalina, Apple, Zoom, Screenshare, Macos

I spent quite sometime figuring this out, and the problem was sooo silly and simple.

Writing this so that no other people have to waste time on this.

Problem I was facing :

When I tried to share my screen with Zoom it asked for screen sharing permissions. You’ll see something like this :

And when you open the system preferences and navigate to screen sharing permissions, Zoom app is not in the list (If you see it, voila! you’re lucky, just enable it and go go… ). Like this :

What you have to do in this situation is a VERY BASIC and SIMPLE STEP : UPDATE THE APP!!! Voila!

You can thank me later.. ;)

Btw going off-topic for all quarantined office people,

Recently, I switched from iOS to Android. And I was missing Apple’s Continuity feature. Where I could easily make or receive phone calls on Mac, get access OTPs, messages quickly on my Mac.

I noticed I was ending up landing social media or hacker-news :D spending hours every-time I picked up my phone for a call(there’re a lot in this work from home situation).

And then after spending a day, going through a lot of spam! I noticed this app on App Store called “Connecton”. I’m surprised why was it hard to find it.

Putting out loud, so that I can save someone’s time who needs this.

https://apps.apple.com/in/app/connecton/id1497000705?mt=12
A few practices I have found helpful for #remoteworking
By: Jonathan Bowden
Tags: Best Practices, Zoom, Coronavirus, Remote Work, Remote Working

With many shifting to #remoteworking , I thought it might be helpful to share some of my own personal practices I have learned over the past 6 years. If you find these helpful, please feel free to pass along! If you have a question, just let me know. A thread of quick tips /

Practice 1

Set your working hours and clearly communicate these to your team, as well as your family members. Try to stick to these hours 97% of the time. It helps me to focus during working hours, as well as reduce confusion and frustrations from all other humans, at work + home.

Practice 2

If at all possible, work in a separate room from other people in your house, preferably a room without any TVs. If a separate room is not possible, wear large over the ear headphones. It’s nearly impossible to focus on your work if you see and hear everything around you.

Practice 3

Communicate more than you think is necessary with your team. Post updates on what you're working on, what you need from others, what your timelines are, etc.

Practice 4

Use the best quality, and most easily accessible tools at your team’s access. @Zoom , @google docs, @InVisionApp and @SlackHQ are SUPER helpful.

Practice 5

Also an occasional @zoom_us call “just because” can be a nice reminder that we are more than text on a screen. Share a joke, a story, a good cry or just gaze at another human face in real-time.

Practice 6

Take regular breaks and step outside a few times a day. Even a 5 minute walk can do wonders. Or a few minutes with a foam roller / yoga / etc

Practice 7

Take a shower each day, fix your hair and get dressed for work… each day. Don’t wear your pj’s or sweats. Remind your body and brain when it’s work time

Practice 8

Put events on your calendar outside of working hours (Tip #1) that you really look forward to. Whether it’s as simple as a walk with the family, or something more involved… I’ve found that the combo of a regular routine + planned events can keep me in the moment more.
How you can hide the background in Zoom video conference
By: Rizwan Khan
Tags: Zoom, Work From Home, Product Management

The coronavirus pandemic has brought the world into a standstill. Around the globe precaution measures are taken resulting in events cancellation, companies asking employees to work from home, educational institutes are closing, air space closure and much more.

As companies across the globe are also taking precaution measures asking employees to work from home due to the coronavirus. More employees will now use some sort of video calling app and we all want to hide the mess behind us. A popular video calling app Zoom has built a nice little feature that gives a user the option to clear the behind mess by replacing it with a nice looking background. with this neat feature, you don’t need to worry about anyone moving around.

How to set this up:

Download and Install Zoom for desktop 2. Goto settings > Virtual Background 3. Set your preferred Background and boom!

I personally really like this feature from the zoom product team and they have thought out about this problem and we have a solution for this now. Well done to Zoom!
A new (virtual) Studio
By: Leandra Elberger
Tags: Cornell Tech, Online Learning, Zoom, Virtual Classroom

In the wake of the confirmed cases of the coronavirus continuing to climb in New York City and surrounding areas, Cornell Tech joined many top institutions in making the tough decision to move classes to online instruction. This will take effect tomorrow.

It seems simple. Hop on Zoom, or Google Hangouts, or whatever video conferencing platform you favor, and let the instructor do their thing. But, it’s not so simple for the Studio at Cornell Tech.

Multidisciplinary teamwork is ingrained in everything we do in the Studio. In all three of the core Studio classes students work in teams to build digital products. They sit with their teams in each class, complete deliverables as a team, and present as a team for their final grades. Transitioning to online instruction within this structure poses an interesting challenge.

My colleagues and I have had about 48 hrs notice to transition this unique curriculum online. Our curriculum and student experience are the lifeblood of Cornell Tech. Across all disciplines we expect a high degree of rigor and academic integrity from our students, and we certainly hold ourselves to the same standard.

There are many versions of the saying “hard times will reveal true friends”. This week I witnessed how “hard times” will reveal true rockstars. I am amazed at how dedicated and adaptable everyone at Cornell Tech has been in a stressful and anxiety ridden time.

Over the last two days the Studio team has come together to create an action plan for online learning. We have met in person or hopped on Zoom with our practitioners to discuss creative solutions and new ideas for how we can optimize this new learning environment. Thatcher Bell (Startup Studio lead) and Chad Dickerson and Bradley Horowitz (BigCo Studio co-leads) are each incredible mentors and colleagues. They have put their trust in our team to lead the way through this transition while remaining creative, easygoing, and most importantly, FUN.

The Studio Operations Lead, Tyler Rhorick, is one of the most impressive people I have worked with in a long time. In between telling him we were going online and finishing a one hour tour of campus with some visitors, Tyler created a detailed list of all of our courses, dependencies, outstanding questions, and plans for how to solve our most pressing issues.

We have become semi-experts in the features of Zoom in a very short time period. We have a comprehensive plan for the coming weeks to keep our students in their team structure and deliver our outstanding curriculum. Though this change in structure is difficult, it offers an opportunity for us to explore expanding our curriculum with new technology; and what better place to do that than Cornell Tech?

Our plan comes to life tomorrow afternoon and I feel confident that we’ve done the best that we can to provide a seamless transition. I know we are going to encounter a lot of unforeseen hurdles that even Tyler couldn’t have predicted in all of his detailed planning. Stay tuned for updates on how the Studio is evolving.

Stay safe and healthy!
Increase Your Profits Using ZOOM Meetings
By: Med Anis
Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Zoom, Zoom Meetings, Increase Sales, Make Money Online

Increase Your Profits Using ZOOM Meetings

Everyone uses webinars to communicate with their prospects. Is it possible that you are one of them?

You’re missing out on a considerable sum of money if you aren’t. That’s right: webinars can assist you in converting leads into sales.

You’re not going to hold a webinar for folks who have already made a purchase.

In a webinar, you’re trying to persuade those who are undecided.

A webinar is an excellent method to give them a boost.

Using ZOOM, you can increase your sales.

If your firm isn’t yet employing webinars, now is the time to get ahead of the game.

When you use Zoom meetings for your webinars, you will not only be able to reach out to more potential consumers, but you will also be able to do so in a format that will increase your conversion rate.

Zoom will assist you in reaching out to those prospects that require more personal interaction.

Zoom is the finest app for remote business meetings, as evidenced by the fact that it is the greatest app for remote business meetings.

Many people spend time, become disheartened, and end up with nothing when they try to handle problems on their own.

This is due to them being trapped in a rut, following bad counsel, and failing to find the correct road to success.

I’ll present to you this video series wich will ensure that this does not occur… You will be able to watch me do it and then repeat it if you purchase this training today.

It’s as simple as that.
How Lukas Gage’s audition illuminates how Zoom interviews can affect lower-income individuals.
By: Athena Paschek
Tags: Zoom, Euphoria, Income Inequality, Jobs, Interview

Instagram: @lukasgage

Last week a viral video surfaced of Lukas Gage calling out an unidentified director for making insulting comments about the 25-year-old Euphoria star’s apartment, making the comment that Gage’s apartment is “tiny” and making insulting comments about how cluttered the space is.

Throughout this outbreak, 40 million Americans have lost their jobs, and without a stimulus on the horizon, millions of these Americans have been evicted or in the process of getting evicted. Without a steady income or a stable home environment, these Americans may also be disadvantaged when searching for a new job due to Zoom interviews.

Many schools are doing school virtually, so many single parents may have loud sounds of children in the background. People also may be living with other family members in crowded living spaces. These individuals might not have access to a computer or the internet to even do the interview itself.

This new way of life can be scary to these people. They are feeling as though they are trapped in a vicious cycle after losing their jobs and homes. The final blow comes when they get turned down for job opportunities due to their inability to present themselves as they would’ve liked to or even been able to present themselves at all.
Zooming Away
By: Cristal H Santos
Tags: College, Zoom, Remote Learning, Covid 19, Covid Diaries

Real Stories from Real People

So many things have changed in the last couple of months. From how we talk to one another, to how we perform our jobs and even how we get our education. Whether you’re a superhuman who thrives in this new virtual world or you’re someone who finds yourself struggling, I think we can all admit this new normal isn’t as normal as you think.

I interviewed three young adults who, like myself, have found themselves in awkward situations due to classes going remote.

Ashley Acevedo posing at her photoshoot. Photo By: Edwyn

Ashley Acevedo, a newly graduated student, found it quite difficult to fully concentrate during her zoom calls, especially with her seven-year-old brother Alex in the house. However, that didn’t stop her from making everlasting memories with her peers and professors.

Renzo Vargas at his frat house hanging out. Photo By; Frat Bro

Renzo Vargas, a Rutgers student, misses in-person classes tremendously and dislikes all the struggles that come with remote learning. At times, he finds himself getting too comfortable and forgetting he’s in class and not at a frat house.

Nancy Perez during a zoom interview. Photo By: Cristal Santos

Nancy Perez, a second-year Rutgers student, loves her family and is stoked at the idea of spending more time with them compared to when she lived on campus. What she’s not looking forward to is all the embarrassing moments she will have to endure, especially coming from a Hispanic household.
🆕 Zoom integration
Tags: Screenwriting, Screenshots, Zoom, Cloud Storage, Monosnap

Monosnap + Zoom integration allows uploading and sharing files related to Zoom Meetings to Monosnap storage on the fly. Let’s see how it works!

All step by step guides related to Zoom integration, you can find here.

How to connect Zoom?

There are two ways to enable Zoom integration:

1. Create Monosnap account using your Zoom account

2. If you already have Monosnap account, you can easily connect it with your Zoom account:

Log in to Monosnap Storage

Go to the storage Settings

Monosnap Storage

Select Connect Zoom button. You will be redirected to log in to Zoom account

Monosnap Storage Settings

After successful login, you will see your Zoom account in the Monosnap setting

Monosnap Storage Settings

How Zoom integration works

Forget about preparing for Zoom Meetings, Monosnap automatically creates folders related to Zoom Meetings.

With Monosnap, you can focus on discussion and visual notes to not forget or miss something important.

Monosnap Storage

You can easily find these folders by Zoom icon in the Monosnap storage.

⚠️ Note! If you don’t upload any file during Zoom Meeting, the folder will be removed to prevent creating dozens of unnecessary empty folders in Monosnap storage.

Monosnap Editor

You can share files with:

People on the other side during Zoom Meeting Your co-worker or client who was absent on Zoom Meeting

Preview in a messenger

Monosnap + Zoom integration allows you to keep your meeting files in one place and not forget or miss something essential after the meeting ended.

All step by step guides related to Zoom integration, you can find here.
How Have Upper West Side Residents Responded to their New Unhoused Neighbors?
By: Tihana Bulut
Tags: Urban Planning, NYC, Homelessness, Covid 19, Upper West Side

“ I am a 59-year-old Black man currently living at the Lucerne Hotel on West 79th St. on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I’ve been moved around several times since the pandemic started, and now I’ve heard we’ll soon be moved yet again because some neighbors of the hotel don’t want us here.

My experience during the pandemic has been marked by instability.”

-Larry Thomas

In an attempt to minimize the risk of rapid COVID-19 transmission throughout New York City’s notoriously overcrowded shelters, Mayor Bill De Blasio put forth a program aimed at temporarily housing unhoused residents in hotels across the city. Launching back in April, the program has relocated roughly 9,500 unhoused residents into 63 hotels — 4 of which are located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan (NYTimes, 2020).

The Hotel Belleclaire on West 77th and Broadway, The Lucerne Hotel on West 79th and Amsterdam, The Belnord Hotel on West 87th between Amsterdam and Broadway, and The Park West Hotel on Central Park West between 106th and 107th Streets, are now home to many of the City’s formally unhoused residents (West Side Rag, 2020). Most notably, The Lucerne hotel houses 283 formally unhoused men, invoking contentious debates amongst longterm residents of the Upper West Side.

Within the last 10-years, 0.79% of total 311 complaints throughout New York City have involved homelessness. However, in the Upper West Side this percentage reaches a staggering 4.3% , meaning that 4.3% of the neighborhoods 311 complaints reference homelessness— more than 5x that of the citywide average. This is not to say that the Upper West Side experiences more homelessness than other neighborhoods in New York City, but rather that the residents of this particular neighborhood are much more adverse to the presence of unhoused residents in their community.

Although a seemingly consistent trend in the neighborhood within the last 10-years, the recent influx of unhoused residents as a result of COVID-19 has contributed to heightened antagonism from longterm residents. This growing hostility can be seen when parsing through the City’s 311 call complaint database.

Analyzing the City’s 311 database, conclusions can be drawn regarding the increased frequency of complaints involving unhoused residents. In 2018, a 9-month period between January, 22nd and September, 22nd, showed 1,573 total complaints referencing “homelessness”. Similarly, the same 9-month period in 2019 showed 1,564 total complaints. However, this same period in 2020 — spanning both pre- and post-COVID-19 program implementations — shows an alarming 2,450 complaints. The timeframe of these complaints are visualized in the graphics below.
Drivers of Homelessness in New York City
By: Jeffrey Pikus
Tags: Homelessness

Real estate executive Jeffrey Pikus is involved in several nonprofit programs. Besides managing operations for his own charity, Kids Do Care, Jeffrey Pikus has also raised funds on behalf of Hale House, an organization that provides supportive housing services for abused women in New York City. Jeffrey’s support helped raise thousands of dollars for Hale House’s benefit.

According to city records, currently there are more than 60,000 people living in both shelters and on the streets of New York City. And unfortunately, nearly a third of them are children. Homelessness in the city the often a result of several unrelated causes, including mental illness. Jeffrey’s support of Hale House .

Jeffrey has also volunteered his time at local non profit events sponsored by The Bowery Mission and the Father’s Heart Ministries, to name a few. Father’s Heart Ministries, located in Manhattan’s east village, has served the community since 1997 providing shelter, medical and meal programs, and social service and educational programs.
Accommodation-based programmes for individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness
By: Dr Ligia Teixeira
Tags: Housing, Homeless, Poverty, Data, Homelessness

The provision of accommodation must be central to any discussions about ending homelessness. But there are many ways to provide accommodation, and in order to ensure positive outcomes for people who are experiencing homelessness, we must have robust evidence on what types of accommodation intervention are genuinely beneficial to the people receiving them.

By rigorously synthesising the outcomes of existing research in one place, Accommodation-based programmes for individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness: a systematic review and network meta-analysis provides the best way to consider the evidence on what works and what doesn’t. We have assessed and synthesised all the available evidence, excluding studies that don’t meet quality criteria.

The key finding in this review is that interventions offering the highest levels of support alongside unconditional accommodation were more effective than programmes that provided low, or no support. In the main, interventions with support programmes tailored to the individual reported better housing stability and health outcomes.

But perhaps more importantly, the evidence in this review shows that basic interventions (those that only satisfy very basic human needs such as a bed and food) may harm people: they had worse health and housing stability outcomes even when compared to no intervention. If we are to genuinely improve people’s lives, we must design provision with clear standards of support instead of focusing on very basic needs that may not be the best use of limited funds.

Whilst the results in this systematic review are promising when it comes to the impact of housing paired with unconditional support, we must recognise the context in which these studies were conducted. Twenty-five out of twenty-eight of these studies are from the USA, two from Canada and one from the UK. The effectiveness of an intervention depends on the conditions in which it is delivered, and we know that the socio-economic and political environment in the US is vastly different to the UK.

As we find ourselves in the midst of a pandemic which has significantly worse financial and health impacts for people who are already disadvantaged, we must move rapidly, and focus resources on what works. In order to design and deliver quality accommodation based interventions, it is vital that we produce more rigorous evidence in the UK so the sector can deliver services that are truly of benefit to the people receiving them.

At the Centre for Homelessness Impact we are committed to helping the UK end homelessness with evidence. By making evidence accessible, filling gaps in our collective knowledge and supporting the implementation of best practise, we will equip practitioners and policymakers with the tools they need to make lasting positive change. We hope you find the insights in this systematic review useful.
A New Pattern Language: Homelessness
By: Tim Mccormick
Tags: Ottawa, Housing First, Homelessness, Housing

A book/platform project concept, developed from a Twitter thread.

I saw a tweet announcing this event on June 7, hosted by the Toronto Association for Business Economics, featuring the University of Ottawa’s Dr. Tim Aubry, whom I follow.

I generously interpreted moderator Randall Bartlet’s mention of moderating the event’s Q&A session, as an opportunity to suggest a question:

(note, this post includes embedded tweets, if you see blank space it’s probably a tweet or image still loading. You may need to wait, or reload page to get it).

Kenneth Gibb, Housing researcher at Glasgow University, Director Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) @housingevidence, happened to follow me around then; I think because I followed him earlier.

So, I invited him into the conversation, because as Olive Garden restaurant chain says, When you’re here, You’re family.

What next!? You can add on thread, I’ll curate and add here. This is agile live-writing/editing & networking the fast way!

we can call it New Pattern Language: Homelessness / No Place Like Home, v.01, if we like, because heck, this is agile, ie mostly imaginary. The type of rapid-prototyping, low-effort for small chance of large payoff, which dreams are made of, and so too, many of my remaining prospects in life, to get out from under.

I made an image expressing this, so that it can be made the Medium post preview image/card that loads when you share link on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Both prefiguration, and building the new world inside the shell of the old!
TOOF Needs a New Van!
By: The Other Ones Foundation
Tags: Homeless, Nonprofit, Austin, Homelessness, Veterans

We have been approved by the City to fund an expansion starting October 1st. This will allow Workforce First to nearly double in capacity, and partner with the Veterans Association to employ homeless veterans. The expansion is fully funded aside from one thing: A van to drive our new crews.

We’ve launched a crowd-funding

campaign to help us get the van, and secure a brighter future for people in dire need of work and shelter. Please contribute what you can, and share our cause with those around you who might be interested in doing the same. We have already done some amazing work this year, as pictured to the left, and we are set to grow this work if we can secure the funds for this van.

TO LOCAL BUSINESSES:

After renewing, and nearly doubling, our contract with the city, it seems fair to say that Workforce First and The Other Ones Foundation is destined for rapid growth over the next few years. If you are a local business that wants to show up as a supporter for your community, consider sponsoring the purchase of our van! If you’re interested, email me: max@toofound.org. Sponsorship benefits include your logo on the van, and thanks on our website, email newsletter, and social media content.