Technology & How To's

As the LG you can be encouraging your clubs to become familiar with Web Conferencing skills as appropriate for their environment. This will allow your Clubs to maintain their regular schedule of meetings, both regular Member meetings and their Board of Director meetings. (which are required by your By-Laws, usually 10 per year )

You might also plan to have your Club President interviews with Web Conference tool. This allow you do share a screen that might have an agenda, or a survey form, open while you are talking to them.

Video Conference tools that you might have to deal with:

• Zoom

• GoTo Meeting

• WebX

• Google Meet

• Skype

Zoom has both free and paid and the widely used. The unpaid version has been noted as having some security concerns.

If your business has a payed account with any of the above, they may let you to use it. This would be a good option

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Assuming you do not have access to to paid Web Conferencing Tool,

The 2 best choices are Zoom, and Google Meet.

• Zoom is the most popular, and is easy to access. Zoom has some security concerns that they are trying to address, with some updates

• Google Meet is free (if you have a Google Suite Account). If you have a standard Gmail account you can use Google Hangout (similar but not as secure or complete)

• In both cases, someone sets up the meeting and sends out an invitation, that includes a link to the meeting. In both cases, it is advisable to send the invitation using the calendar functions so that it appears on People's calendar they get to respond with a Yes, No, Maybe. BUT you just send it out as a email.

• In both cases, you can send out the invitation, as you start a meeting, or you can schedule them before hand and send out an invitation to people well in advance of the meeting