So, how do you speak on Zoom without saying a word? Well, back in November I came across a great idea, cards to communicate when on group video calls. In that post I wrote:
In the early days of email, we had no emoticons, but we did have text equivalents (hence the shortcuts on our keyboards for emoticons now). I was that “grown up” who used 🙂 (smileys) to add to my email communicate. Yes, even for business.Email communication is a very partial form of communication (I often suggest using email only for information, but not for communication as so much can be lost. Clearly the fullest form of communication is face to face, as we can “read” people, including their non-verbal communications. That can still work pretty well on video with 1:1 and also small groups, but once you get beyond 3 or 4 people (at most) communications can be lost (and hey, Zoom doesn’t have good emoticons.. yet).
These cards are now on sale from Inbo, both the regular ones and the “outspoken” ones, with the picture above being a sample of four of them that I liked (some are a LOT more outspoken than these four!).
If you see me on a group call in future, I’ll have these to hand and may use one or more to communicate, without saying a word!