Teams: #FightCorona – How do I join a meeting?

We have either scheduled our meeting or someone has sent us a meeting - but now we have to join it to get going

Teams: #FightCorona – How can I schedule a meeting?

One of the keys to remote working with Teams is meetings. Meetings are a big part of Teams and like Chat, are one of the fundamental ways in which we can collaborate with others within our organisation, as well as guests and external users. In the next several blogs we will go into all the aspects of meetings including how to schedule them, how we can join them, what the meetings experience is like, how we can share, how we can amend meeting settings and how we can utilise integrated apps like the whiteboard

Teams: #FightCorona – How can I set my availability? When is it right to chat and call?

If we are working remotely, we need to know when we can contact others and when it is the right time to chat or place a call. We can't assume that because others aren't in the office they automatically have more time on their hands. We certainly don't want them to make that assumption about us. There are a number of features in Teams that can help with managing your availability and seeing others availability - the primary one being Presence

Teams: #FightCorona – Mentions, Tags and Read Reciepts

To finish our introduction to chat, we are going to cover three specific features that are good for every member of every team to know: mentions, tags and read receipts. The first two are examples of targeted communications. Targeted communication means finding an appropriate audience and ensuring that your message reaches them. Read receipts are confirmation that your message has been read

Teams: #FightCorona – Rich chat features for effective conversations

The last few blogs have set out the scene with regards to building your Teams, building your Channels and starting conversations with people both inside your organisation, and people outside your organisation (guests and external users). It's now time to enjoy some of the great chat features that are available in Teams - things like emoji's and meme's. Whilst some may not be to everybody's taste at first, it is important to embrace modern communication methods, diversity and be inclusive of how different people would like to communicate. For all those who don't particularly like gif's I would point out that the brain processes images 60,000 times faster than words so they are an excellent medium for transmitting information. The same applies to emoji's they emotionally resonate with others. Here's are just a fraction of the rich chat features available to you