Work From Home Tips: Google Lets You Have Online Meetings Like A Pro

With work from home being the new norm, workforces across the globe have resorted to online alternatives to an office culture.

Good thing for us, there are several apps and services by tech majors that allow us to do so in a much efficient way than ever before. One such, is by using a conglomerate of apps by Google.

Virtual Meetings In Google

Google Meet

Starting with Google Meet, users can hold virtual meetings to connect with employees from all across the globe. The dedicated video conferencing app allows users to create or join high-quality video meetings with up to 250 participants. Google assures that these meetings are ¡°encrypted in transit¡±, with proactive anti-abuse measures to keep the meetings safe.

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There are other features in Google Meet too. For instance, participants are allowed to share their own screens with the whole meeting in order to present documents, slides and more. The mere functionality helps the one narrating the meeting to take over. A big plus are also the real-time captions generated in the app, powered by Google speech-to-text technology.

Google Collaborative Meeting Agenda

Google Docs

Just as Google Meet can help set up a meeting with multiple participants over group video calls, Google Docs allows multiple inputs from the participants in a text format. This means that several users can work on the same document simultaneously, with all the changes being recorded against the corresponding user¡¯s name in an in-built ledger.

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For those unaware, Google Docs is Google¡¯s own version of Microsoft Word. Except, it is cloud based and hence has certain on-the-go advantages over its counterparts. Collaborative inputs on a single doc is one of them.

As for meetings, such a simultaneous use allows a collaborative input of mission critical data. In case of a meeting, this can be used to record the minutes/ agenda of the meeting very easily.

Gmail's Seamless Workflow Experience

Google Meet integrated in Gmail

Google has been paying attention to improving this experience of online meetings for corporates. The recent merger of Gmail is the biggest example of that. In order to bring every component into one place, the tech giant has integrated the two apps - Google Meet and Google Chat, into Gmail for its GSuite customers.

The idea is to provide a single window operation to the user for such virtual meetings and any task related to these. The new integration sees new sections on the Gmail sidebar that show people and chat rooms from Google Chat, along with meetings scheduled in Google Meet.

The message area of Gmail now has a split screen that can show a Google Chat room or even open a Google Doc right inside Gmail.

Easy Setup Online Meeting

With the integrations made easy, these apps by Google enable anyone to conduct a meeting with his/ her team in just a few clicks.

For instance, to start the meeting, one can just click on ¡°New Meeting¡± either on Google Meet or on the sidebar of Gmail under the Meet section.

To set up a collaborative meeting agenda on Google Docs, one can share the document with any number of people through the top right ¡°Share¡± button on the document. The original creator of the document can even choose as to who can edit the document and who can simply go through it.

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