by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let not check a communications channel using that same communications channel. It is pretty silly to do so.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the great pandemic of the early 2020s, I have been part of countless ZoomerTeams meetings. Almost every one starts with, “Can everyone hear me?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s pause and think. If a participant cannot hear the person asking the question, how would they be able to respond?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another example from many years ago. At a school meeting of parents, the speaker said (in English), “If you speak Spanish but not English, sit over here as we have a Spanish-speaking translator available.” Silly. How would a Spanish-speaking person understand… need I continue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Check a communications channel with another communications channel. In the ZoomerTeams meeting, show a slide that reads something like, “I am now speaking. If you can hear me speaking, say so in the chat channel.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have a message for Spanish speakers, send it in Spanish, not English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I could go on with the silly examples and all too obvious ways to check communications channels. Lets do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Let not check a communications channel using that same communications channel. It is pretty silly to do so. Since the great pandemic of the early 2020s, I have been part of countless ZoomerTeams meetings. Almost every one starts with, “Can everyone hear me?” Let’s pause and think. If a participant cannot hear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[386,113,32,286,257,50],"tags":[387,225,154,287,258,172],"class_list":["post-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances","category-clarity","category-communication","category-conversation","category-respect","category-thinking","tag-appearances","tag-clarity","tag-communication","tag-conversation","tag-respect","tag-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4166,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions\/4166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}