Re: DISPATCH Virtual Meeting

["Deen, Glenn (NBCUniversal)" <[e-mail]>]

Chiming in with experience out of ADD on Tuesday.

It thought everything worked pretty well yesterday for ADD. Like chairs have done - Dave Lawrence and myself coordinated ahead of time to split who would be running the slides and agenda and who would be managing the queue and speakers line.   It turned out that was super helpful to have Dave running the queue as once I put Webex into presentation mode it rearranged my WebEx windows and I could no longer see the chat window.   

Another thing that helped was having a second laptop - in this case a basic Chromebook did the job - which I connected to WebEx ahead of time and did a practice run through of all the slide decks, and then later connected to the WG so I could see exactly what was being seen by participants on the call.    It really helped to verify that the decks we showing and also helped see the time lag between pushing the next slide button and the slide appearing.  

Microphones are a huge deal for these.  We have most speakers coming through clearly, but one had a poor microphone and we had many complaints about trouble hearing him.   

It would be helpful if we could identify particular brands/models of microphones that work really well and share that info.   While they may be hard to get currently, many of us do calls as a regular part of the day and having good gear is a kind gift to everyone else on the calls.

-glenn

On 3/25/20, 9:01 AM, "WGChairs on behalf of Pete Resnick" <[e-mail] on behalf of [e-mail]> wrote:

    On 24 Mar 2020, at 10:12, Ben Campbell wrote:
    
    > I personally found it difficult to tell who was speaking when looking 
    > at a list of oto 150 people, especially when it competes with the 
    > message pane for screen real estate. The tiles at the top help some, 
    > but the distinction between the current and recent speakers could be a 
    > bit more, well, distinctive.
    
    There's a control in the upper right of the window which let's you 
    select the view. The middle selection puts the current speaker in a pane 
    above the list of participants. That was very helpful for me.
    
    pr
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