[CT-NFB] What I discovered about ZOOM

[Justin Salisbury]

Hi everyone,

I think it’s great to get in there and play around with Zoom. I have a paid Zoom account for work with a few extra bells and whistles, and it really can do a lot. I’m told that the free Zoom accounts can only host free meetings for up to 40 minutes. That may have changed.

In the NFB of Pennsylvania, we have a paid Zoom account that was given to us by the national office, by my understanding. We have a few affiliate leaders with credentials for it, and we use it to host affiliate-wide programming. It can do some nice things for sure, like how we can make the Zoom system call certain people to get them into the meetings. This is especially helpful with some folks who are newly blind and don’t yet have the skills to use their smartphones independently or write down the long string of meeting ID and passcode numbers.

Stay well, everyone!

Justin


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From: CT-NFB <ct-nfb-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Cheri Duquette via CT-NFB
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 10:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [CT-NFB] What I discovered about ZOOM

Thanks for sharing with us! As much as it is important for us to be together, with this virus I feel Zoom is going to be around for awhile. Good luck!
Cheri
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On Jul 29, 2020, at 7:22 PM, Deb Reed via CT-NFB <ct-nfb at nfbnet.org<mailto:ct-nfb at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
Fellow affiliate members,
So although I had a Zoom app and have attended many meetings both Nfb related and personal, I had never actually set up an account. If you wish to host a meeting when you go into your Zoom app, click on sign up instead of sign in. Then you will be prompted to both enter your email and a password. That is as far as I have gotten but I’m looking forward to learning the rest and hosting a meeting.

Sincerely,
 Deb Reed
Central CT Chapter President
National Federation Of The Blind
Phone - 860-973-3679
Cell-860-378-5370
Email - deb.reed57 at gmail.com<mailto:deb.reed57 at gmail.com>


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