Go from Zero to Zoom with My New Book
Go from zero to Zoom with my new ebook, Take Control of Zoom!
It’s a guide for everyone, since we’ve all fallen into Zoom as the easiest tool across operating systems to video chat and handle business meetings and classes for school. It’s a rich and powerful videoconferencing service, but it can also baffle, frustrate, perplex, and irritate even the most experienced digital tool users! This book untangles Zoom, making it easier, more fun, and more efficient to use.
My book teaches you how to get set up and configured if you’re starting from scratch. But if you’re already using Zoom, that’s just a tiny part of the book. The rest is devoted to improving your physical space for better on-screen appearance, examining audio and video options, configuring your account and Zoom apps to meet your needs and for privacy and safety, as well as how to participate effectively in meetings, share your screen for presentations and demonstrations, and record video and audio within the Zoom app or via cloud recording.
Another of Zoom’s advantages is that anyone with a Zoom app and free account can host meetings with up to 100 participants! Take Control of Zoom has chapters that walk you through all the hosting features, including the unfortunate extensive one-time configuration to make sure your meetings operate the way you want. I then guide you through conducting meetings, including how to manage ones in which anyone can join.
Public meetings for dependency support groups, parent/teacher association discussions, and even virtual book tours by authors have the potential for trolls and abusers to ruin the day. I explain how to configure and manage groups of all kinds that don’t include all people who know each other, including how to admit participants carefully, how to mute, warn, and block them, and how to report particularly awful people to Zoom.
I don’t shirk security and privacy issues, either. The book opens with a long look at how Zoom dropped the ball and how they’ve fixed outstanding problems and are trying to do better. You can decide if they have done enough.
If you’re trying to use Zoom at all or use it better, my book will absolutely help. I learned an enormous amount researching and writing it, and I’m committed to continuous updates as Zoom improves security and enhances features, as well as adding material prompted by readers.