{"id":4888,"date":"2020-07-03T01:43:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T06:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=4888"},"modified":"2020-10-13T18:41:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T23:41:10","slug":"scotts-zoom-tip-email-the-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=4888","title":{"rendered":"Scott&#8217;s Zoom tip: Email the link!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Like many academics, I&#8217;ve now been regularly &#8220;attending&#8221; conferences and giving talks via Zoom for four months.  Naturally, I&#8217;ve learned a lot about how to use this platform&#8212;one that, despite numerous quirks and flaws, <em>actually works<\/em> well enough that it could probably replace at least 2\/3 of in-person talks and meetings after the covid crisis is over.  But one particular lesson is so important that I thought I&#8217;d make a public service announcement of it.  So without further ado:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email the link.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, the thing like<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/jblahblah<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that you actually click to get to the actual conversation.  <em>Definitely<\/em> email the link to the speaker (!).  But also email it to whomever said they plan to attend.  Resend the link between a day and an hour in advance, so that it doesn&#8217;t get buried, but turns up right away when people search their inboxes.  If possible, put the link in <em>every single email<\/em> about the meeting or lecture.  Even if you already sent the link for previous iterations of the meeting and it hasn&#8217;t changed, send it again.  Don&#8217;t assume people will find the link on the web.  Don&#8217;t make them click through five other links or open an attached PDF for it.  Don&#8217;t send ten emails that explain every possible detail of the meeting except how to get to it.  Just <strong>email the link.<\/strong>  That&#8217;s all.  Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many academics, I&#8217;ve now been regularly &#8220;attending&#8221; conferences and giving talks via Zoom for four months. Naturally, I&#8217;ve learned a lot about how to use this platform&#8212;one that, despite numerous quirks and flaws, actually works well enough that it could probably replace at least 2\/3 of in-person talks and meetings after the covid crisis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4890,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions\/4890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}