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64 Stories To Learn About Zoom

by Learn RepoDecember 2nd, 2023

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Learn everything you need to know about Zoom via these 64 free HackerNoon stories.

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Let's learn about Zoom via these 64 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.

1. 3 Awesome Trello and Slack Alternatives Everyone Should Try

Since the start of the pandemic, the tech world has been scrambling to take formerly offline practices and processes online. Sometimes that has meant making better use of existing tools, like Slack. On other occasions, we’ve all been forced to find new ways to do things.

2. Zoom's Desktop Client Banned by Google

Google is joining the developing number of associations who've chosen to quit utilizing Zoom because of the security worries with the video-conferencing administration.

3. How to Keep Your Zoom Meetings Safe

Read on to find out more about what these risks are and how you can use Zoom's great security features to keep your meetings secure.

4. You Know What Rhymes with Zoom? Room. Facebook to Launch Video Chat Competitor

Mark Zuckerberg announced via Facebook Live a new product called Messenger Rooms:

5. 5 Ways AI Can Improve Your Next Meeting

How to use AI to improve your meetings: Five ways to improve your team meetings through the use of AI meeting assistants

6. Quarantine Day 22 Amirite? My Take on Zoombot

Edit: I put the instructions on Github!

7. Best Applications That Will Make Remote Work During Coronavirus More Comfortable

Things have changed very rapidly for a lot of people. Just a few months ago nobody would’ve imagined they would have to stay at home for a prolonged period of time, and even though warned, preparation for a global scale epidemic was pretty poor. Right now, when the spread of Covid-19 is at its peak, a lot of people have to get used to self-isolation, which means they can’t go to work to offices anymore but have to work remotely.

8. This Thread is Being Recorded

This Slogging thread by David, Natasha, Amy and Limarc occurred in hackernoon's official #general channel, and has been edited for readability.

9. Virtual Events - Connecting Minds, Capturing Ideas!

How virtual events and meetings can bring together distributors and customers in direct selling, by enhancing their engagement and retention in events.

10. 6 Not-so-obvious Tech Predictions

By the time of writing of this article everyone knows, the "technologies of the future" as listed from various mainstream media. And I agree with most of them. It is worth discussing a few not so obvious though. I expect my "predictions" to be fulfilled by 2030.

11. Zoom, Keybase and Future of Messaging

Today Zoom acquired Keybase. It came as a shock to me at first; but, it shouldn't surprise us.

12. About the 5 Types of People You'll Meet at Virtual Networking Events

The evolution of virtual meetings continues to break new ground.

13. Product manager dead after ‘taking a step back’ off cliff

14. Use Naming to Make People Laugh in Our Post-Apocalyptic Zoom World

Seeing the funny side of team names and why they may be more beneficial, at the risk of appearing less professional.

15. Know your Apps: An Insight into App Usage and Error Data Reveal during COVID-19

As physical stores closed and people sheltered in their homes, consumers turned to mobile apps to replace many in-person behaviors.

16. 10 Tips For Securing Zoom Meetings

Nowadays, remote work has become widespread with the effect of coronavirus. Although online meetings provide great convenience, it brings with it large cyber risks. Zoom is often preferred especially for online meetings. It is very important to take measures against cyber attacks for online meetings. In this process, I prepared some precautions with the experiences I gained while using Zoom. Here are some precautions for cyber attacks.

17. Dr. Seuss Goes Remote: Oh, the Places You’ll Go

I was trying to explain to my kids why they should be excited about the growth of the remote business model. I’ve worked remotely for most of their lives, so they couldn’t understand what it was like when people went to offices, commuted long hours, and did their work surrounded by others. That’s what motivated me to explain remote work to them in a way they could easily comprehend.

18. 3 Solutions for Sharing and Managing Your Zoom Recordings

Recorded a Zoom meeting, now what? How do I efficiently share it with people around my organization? How do I restrict access to such a recording? I want my marketing team to only view this recording so how do I segregate access?

19. The Keep Truckin ELD: cool and cost-effective

ELD, Electronic Logging Device is an integral part of every truck. The ELD device is aimed at creating a safe and efficient environment for truck drivers. The ELD device is a component of all commercial trucks. It helps to maintain an easy logging and tracking of location, engine diagnostics, and driver activity. The ELD help both the drivers and the business by improving the efficiency and maintain accurate records.

20. Zoom's Security Issues Now Endanger The Online Privacy of Minors and Teachers

In this season of pandemic, all businesses are grounded and forced to continue their operations through online channels. There is excessive use of digital channels for conferencing purposes, communication, and file transferring.

21. Virtual Conferences: Innovating the Conference Industry for the Future

OK, so maybe we’re all growing a little tired of staring at our computer screens all day. But would you rather be going into an office every day and potentially contracting the coronavirus? What about business travel? If your boss asked you to go on a business trip to a conference that involved airfare and eating out at restaurants, would you be completely comfortable with that right now? Chances are we are constantly weighing the risks and rewards of things these days to make decisions that three months ago were no big deal. Until there’s a vaccine or a cure, chances are we aren’t going to feel totally comfortable getting “back to normal” just yet. Sp what will business start to look like as people get back to normal activities from a distance?

22. Technology Is Saving The World Amid COVID-19

Technology - often portrayed as an industry that the benefits only the privileged - is actually helping with the fight against the coronavirus. And we don’t mean Medtech.

23. 5 useful tools to Work from Home during Coronavirus Pandemic

As per the current statistical records, over 124,000 novel coronavirus cases have been reported across 122 countries and territories, globally. Source

24. Zoom, and the Rise of the Freeterprise Business Model

A freeterprise is a combination of free and enterprise where free professional accounts are driven into the funnel through the free product. As the opportunity is identified the company assigns the free account to a salesperson within the organization (inside sales or fields sales) to convert that into a B2B/enterprise account.

25. Cats, Computers, & Working From Home Fails

Top writers and editors at Hackernoon share their working from home fails with fluffy individuals jealous for attention otherwise known as cats.

26. The Perfect Video Chat App Doesn’t Exist

The coronavirus crisis, with all its ‘working from home’ and social distancing recommendations, has probably transformed your social life into a succession of video chats. Your boss, your doctor, your family, your friends, they all want to see your face and tech is here to help. Or is it?

27. Zoom 5.0: Major 5 Security Updates You Need to Know

From yoga classes to worldwide webinars, Zoom community has been expanding all around the world after the global lockdown due to COVID-19.

28. The Show Must Go On: Producing a Virtual Nonprofit Event

Virtual events are nothing new. Yet COVID-19 has people scrapping travel itineraries and signing up for online sessions, workshops, and classes. Instead of a crowded expo floor, they'll be watching educational and informational sessions in their homes.

29. Has Zoom Made Us "Embrace the Dark Side" of Humanity?

It turns out that “mortal-virtual-sins” include “joining a call late, having a bad Internet connection, accidentally sharing sensitive information" and more.

30. What Is “Zoombombing”: an Exaggerated Phenomenon, not a Vulnerability

Why is the exclusive focus on Zoom, when the same “flaw” impacts almost all popular video conferencing apps?

31. How Zoom Helps Nonprofits Deliver on Their Missions

Not only did it become the new conference room, but it also became a hub for training, check-ins, and other services.

32. Hybrid and Virtual Events: An Essential Guide

Hybrid and virtual events can truly open the doors to more meaningful, dynamic engagement with your audience.

33. All Hands on Deck Meeting :-)

34. How to Behave during Video Calls: 9 Rules for Communicating with Colleagues

These days most companies have asked their employees to stay at home and change their office work for a remote one. In such conditions, the issues of organizing video calls have become especially relevant. It seems that online conferences for dozens and even hundreds of people are a step towards a digital future without borders when people can work from anywhere in the world and get together for negotiations literally by click. But in reality, video calls are often not as good as you might imagine. Someone cannot install the necessary program, someone is nervous because of the relatives in the background, and someone appears at an important conference call in his pajamas and using the nickname “DimonKiller666”. We have put together some simple rules for making video calls that will help make them comfortable for yourself and your colleagues.

35. Miro and Zoom are Winning (and 5 More Takeaways from 2020's UX Tools Survey)

Over 4,000 designers responded to Taylor Palmer's annual UX Tools survey. Here are some takeaways from the results.

36. Kids + Dogs + Zoom Meetings - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

It’s not just kids who impact remote work. Animals also feel the need to interfere.

37. Skype VS Zoom for Online Tutoring

The global adoption of online tutoring due to various reasons, including the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to educators embracing video conferencing tools to conduct classes. While there are dozens of choices in the market, the most obvious choice for tutors is either Skype or Zoom.

38. Should You Enable Your Camera on Zoom Calls?

I have a simple question: 📽 Should you enable your camera on Zoom calls? There is a lot of evolving etiquette around this. A #slogging water-cooler style story

39. Will Zoom Become The Next Skype?

A lot has been written about Zoom in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The share price has risen 800% since its IPO, valuing it at $144 Billion, it is well funded, profitable and has attracted some of the smartest people in tech and business into its ranks. Zoom is riding a high that is well deserved. It has an amazing product that cut through a crowded field to do things better than the well-established competition, including the likes of Oracle’s Webex, Google Hangouts and Microsoft’s Skype.

40. Pitfalls Of Court Hearings On Zoom

Court hearings are going virtual in response to COVID-19. Studies show they can lead to harsher outcomes for defendants

41. How I Got 78 Criticisms on Show Hacker News for My Zoom Competitor

Last month, I launched the app on Show HN. As a result, it got 82 points and 78 comments. Ranked in the toppest 10 of popular posts in a day also. Actually, we have pros and cons about it and people tend to criticize it more. Anyway, it felt so amazing that a lot of the people across the world visited my website and said hi to me. What an exciting moment! Today, I’d like to share how to develop and launch a landing page.

42. 3 Ways to Share and Manage Zoom Recordings

43. How to Build a Full Stack Zoom Clone Using Node JS, Express, and Peer JS

Hello guys, recently I created my own clone of Zoom using Node js, Express, Peer JS. Here's how to do it!

44. 4 Zoom Tweaks To Improve The Quality of Your WFH Meetings

The Coronavirus outbreak is no less than a fortune for Zoom. The cloud meetings app has seen enormous growth that roots from the disruption of normal routine due to lockdowns everywhere. From the surge of Zoom app downloads worldwide to the company almost doubling its annual revenue, 2020 may have a bad start for most of us but for Zoom it’s their heydays.

45. Zoom's Nine Year Path to Overnight Success

Zoom has been in news a lot lately. It has gone from being an enterprise solution to a household name pretty fast.

46. 7 Tools To Help Manage Your Remote Teams Better

Now that your teams have acclimated to working remotely every day during the workweek, they've probably started getting into some semblance of a groove. They might even have increased their productivity to unheard-of levels.

47. Configuring Single Sign-On for Zoom With WSO2 Identity Server

In the wake of remote working, Zoom has become one of the most essential tools for video conferencing. This blog discusses how you can configure single sign-on (SSO) for Zoom with WSO2 Identity Server.

48. How the Pandemic Has Driven the Rise of Collaboration Through UCaas

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues in several countries, causing notable modifications to occur in workplaces; organizations are grabbing on to artificial intelligence, IoT services and as-a-service (aaS) models to conform to the fast-emerging realities. Therefore, only an alternative approach of collaboration can stimulate the clattered productivity and effectiveness of the global workforce in an enterprise, as these changes are sure to have a lasting influence on future workplace practices. Enterprises are looking for a method of transferring employee dependence on physical hardware and allocating increased investment into the software sphere, this is where UCaaS is implemented.

49. All the Tools You Need to Emulate the Experience of Being in a Physical Office

On managing remote teams and creating an atmosphere similar to your office: Recently, I did a webinar with TIE and fellow women founders on Managing remote teams. A lot of you asked for the extensive list of tools that I mentioned in the webinar. So, here it is!

50. Top Five Data Breaches Witnessed In 2020: Twitter, Marriot, Zoom, Magellan Health, and MGM

From the time when organizations shifted their business to remote operations because of the COVID-19 epidemic, the number of data breaches has dramatically increased. In the first half, there were reports of data breaches in 81 international companies from 81 countries!

51. How to Serve Millions of Free Video Calls Using The STUN Protocol

Recently, WhatsApp updated its privacy policy. This event, along with the ongoing discussions on privacy concerns about the online platforms we used every day, created interest in fields of privacy and security and migration to other messaging platforms such as Signal.

52. Understanding These 6 Things Will Help You Choose The Perfect Video Conferencing Solution

Video conferencing is a powerful tool that makes connecting with clients, business partners, employees, and customers around the globe easily. The technological advancements have contributed to modern ways of how we conduct meetings. Business communication and collaboration whether it is internal or external must help every growing brand to achieve its business goals and must help businesses to meet their evolving requirements.

53. How to Look and Sound Better in Video Conference

Now that we all spend so much time in video conferencing either for work or life, it is critical to make yourself look and sound the best to your colleagues, family and friends. It is not only about self image, but also about having the “real” you projecting the maximum presence remotely. In this article, I would like to introduce a few simple steps to improve your look and sound in video conferencing tools.

54. The State of Infrastructure Security Amidst this Pandemic

Around mid-March, news filtered out of a cyberattack that hit the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Department. Amid battling a pandemic, the HHS cyberinfrastructure was overloaded, but the HHS Secretary Alex Azar claimed that "we had no penetration into our networks, we had no degradation of the functioning of our networks."

55. 10 Features We Could Build to Improve Online Meeting & Collaboration Tools

Video conferencing tools like Zoom, Skype, or WebEx along with Digital tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack are deeply embedded into the modern ways of working — even more during the lock-down era. And their role will only get more important.

56. On The (Failed) Digitization of Our Social Lives

If you told me two months ago that today would be the first day of quarantine that I would digitally get pen to paper, two-months-ago-me would have been outraged at quarantine-me. With no competition for my attention, I assumed that every creative pursuit that I’d put off for lack of time would come bursting out of me in a personal Renaissance like Bob Dylan producing The Basement Tapes. If Shakespeare wrote King Lear during plague quarantine, surely I could do something during my quarantine.

57. Things to Consider Before Building A Video Conferencing App Like Zoom

We have seen a lot of things both tangible and abstract transcend from being a luxury to a niche utility and finally, to a bare-minimal necessity. Mobile phones and computers could be quoted in this category. When it comes to intangibles, we can always talk about the Internet. One such manifestation that was once considered a luxury, has now become an inevitable part of our everyday lives is video calling.