"N'étiquette": learn to behave online

We can be few or many, when we meet through an Online meeting, there is some etiquette to follow.

Let us say, we meet through free or pro Zoom. You downloaded, configured, before the meeting. Make sure, you also looked at some advanced features. 

In zoom anyone can look at the meeting, anytime, in two different views.

 In Speaker View, we see only the speaker, Vanderbilt eventually, the screen showed. 

In Gallery View, one can see all,  at least many of us. Make sure, you are always a good audience, and do not do what you would not do in a meeting where all are together, remember you are the Audience and also the Listener.

Would you eat, in middle of a meeting? Walk, unless absolutely necessary? Call someone on your phone? And in general, not be attentive? 

Your face, gesturing are  seen even more then in a room, where they are often hidden a bit behind someone else.

In Zoom, you can close your Sound, mostly we do when someone else speaks. We also could hide our face. Who wants to speak before faceless photos? The speakers need to feel the emotion stirred by their words, and in case of humor, hear laughter. 

There are many other things to learn, but for me those are most important and depend on each of us.

With the TMI to  allow because the Coronavirus to each club to meet online (I do not think it is only in Europe) Online and what it means become even more important. Will writ about other aspects another time. In fact, that first picture were only screens one near the other. 

Here is from a real zoom meeting.

And here is still in Zoom, when I do not cut what is in the top and the bottom. In Gallery view still.

Top left, one can see it was Recording. Host or cohost can Record, to the clouds, Zoom, or to the computer we are on. Attention! Do not stop, as the other one is risking stop also if more then one is recording at the same time. Top right, as we are in Gallery view, we can click to Speaker View and see only the person speaking, big on the screen. All the way to right, we can exit full screen, see what is on our own desktop behind the zoom screen and also the Chat box at right.

On the bottom, Mute or Unmute ourself, Show Video or Stop Video of ourself. Near each there are other sound and video settings we can configure. Click on Participants, show us their names. Share in Green, lets us Share a Screen we opened before (if not all our desktop, which I avoid). Then open or close the Chat box, in orange here. And a record button (here I was not the one recording). On the bottom right, Leave the Meeting. Attention: do not leave if you opened it, before passing the HOST right to someone else, as then, it could close the meeting for all.

Here is in Speaker View, great storyteller, Samir, as a child looking up to his mother. See how well a face expression can be seen online?