Hi,
Probably a silly question to ask in these working-from-home times, but does anyone know or have a promo code for Zoom.us? Or are there similar alternatives which are cheaper? Google Hangout Meet seems like a viable option but it's only included in the lowest paid tier until 01/07/20. Skype seems to have worse picture quality than Zoom. Zoho Meetings didn't seem to work as I couldn't hear the other person but they could hear me…
Thanks in advance, and I hope everyone is doing OK.
Yeah, I registered for an account 4 days ago and I haven't received a follow up email yet. I know all V/C providers must be being hammered right now though..
Zoom works fine. If you had trouble hearing the other person, then its a config issue on your end
I don't have an issue with Zoom, just wondering if there was anything similar but cheaper on the Pro level account.
Houseparty
It's free or $20 a month, and a pretty good service - so hard to see how you can do better.
Yeah, I note that it's excluding GST too, but I was hoping for a discount somewhere anyway :)
Company provides me a Zoom pro license. It is very stable and very intuitive. I'd say well worth paying for.
Just be wary of data privacy with Zoom.
https://www.afr.com/technology/zoom-is-the-next-privacy-chal…
I recall someone sharing with a few psychologists that zoom was private… I'll check out the article..
I recently transitioned our entire office to Zoom for all communication/collaboration purposes while all staff are WFH.
We're just using the free tier (we're not a huge organisation, so the "restrictions" if you could call them that, don't impact us much. We'd never need to have more than 100 participants in a meeting and the 40 minute time limit for meetings with 3 or more participants Zoom is now waiving for free accounts as part of a goodwill gesture and even if you do run into the time limit, the meeting ends and you can simply rejoin it or create a new one for all participants. The only real limitation for free users now is that Zoom is temporarily suspending the ability to join meetings from landlines and mobile phones via audio-only phone calls due to increased demand, but that's a pretty niche consideration for most businesses when everyone can join from their smartphones at the very least).
I'd highly recommend it.
Coming from Skype for Business/Microsoft Teams, it's a million times more intuitive and reliable and it can run on anything (Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Android) and you can join the same meeting from multiple devices as the same user, so if any users don't have laptops with webcams/mics and/or desktops with attached webcams/mics at home, they can at least have video/audio functionality through their phones and then join a meeting from a PC (even if they're remotely connected to it) for all other purposes like screen-sharing.
I've had dozens of Zoom meetings recently (full video calls with screen sharing and all functionality in use) with internal/external contacts across many different platforms (mobile, laptops, desktops, tablets), and based in many different locations, and it's never skipped a beat. The connection quality is always rock solid and users can figure out most functionality on their own with little instruction, given the interface is heavily standardised across all platforms.
Next to Slack, Zoom is looking like the next killer collaboration/communication tool.
I'd unironically suggest Discord, it's by far the most intuitive messaging and video calling software to ever exist. It's a real shame that other companies are making their own versions of software when Discord is already equipped with the reliability, quality and efficiency of any other "business-catered" software on the market.
I'd echo slack too. It's awesome.
I don't know if you're aware but Discord is distinctly NOT targeted towards professional environments and enterprises are not going to make the backbone of their teleconferencing capability some gamer-devised platform.
Businesses will laugh at something like Discord regardless of how solid the feature-set is; it's like suggesting a lawyer's office buy every staff member a custom-built, tempered glass tower with RGB lighting and water-cooling loops with a 1-year RTB warranty, instead of something sensible like an OEM workstation with a 3 year, on-site NBD warranty.
Discord also lacks a lot of key enterprise features, namely that all participants to any video meeting have to have manually installed Discord (unlike enterprise teleconferencing solutions that can invite participants to join via a web browser session, from a smartphone, etc without having to install a client, simply by clicking a link). Discord also doesn't support screen sharing remote control, recording an entire meeting, annotating and drawing on the video/screen sharing feed and it's got a lot of features that would be utterly annoying in a business environment (namely all of the notifications about what your contacts are doing).
There's also very little in the way of dedicated support channels and a lack of security-oriented features like encryption.
It's a real shame that other companies are making their own versions of software when Discord is already equipped with the reliability, quality and efficiency of any other "business-catered" software on the market.
Yes it is good, but it's really not for business users and if you did support the IT infrastructure of a typical SME, you'd understand very quickly why.
Wow, negged because I disparaged your beloved teleconferencing platform.
This is precisely why gamers are completely unqualified to comment on enterprise IT technology unless they actually work in that field; they keep thinking their niche little bubble applies to everyone else.
There was a deal on OzB with a code for 50% off for an annual subscription to Zoom - where did it go, does anyone know?
You should try jitsi.
yea its good
Cisco has webex
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collaboration/video-…