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My name is Christina Dillabough and I'm a Communications student consulting for Waking Up Inc.

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My name is Christina Dillabough and I'm a Communications student consulting for Waking Up Inc.

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Waking Up, Inc. is a wellness company with a dedicated staff of life coaching professionals. Currently, the employees are overwhelmed with staff meetings loosing precious client contact time. Considering most of their work is done in direct contact with their clients, time is money.

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The Waking Up team needs a small group virtual meeting option that can cut down on the number of face to face meetings. By utilizing a virtual meeting space the group can reduce the number of face-to-face meetings and decrease travel and meeting time when they meet online.

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If the virtual staff meetings go well, video conferencing could even be added to the company's client support channels.
After testing Skype for business meetings, I found it to be a little cumbersome. It's not as intuitive as I would have hoped. We kept running into issues with finding the people we wanted to meet with.
Facebook had a few odd attempts but in the end it really worked well. We started out with FacebookLive and discovered that we would need special equipment in order to broadcast writing on a white board. We didn't realize that the video gets reversed, so the written whiteboard messages were backwards.
Once we created Groups on our Facebook Page, we finally had successful meetings. We uploaded the PDF document that everyone needed to review in advance and because the meeting was on the Group Events, everyone received an reminder notification as the meeting date approached. We can easily look back on previous meetings, notes, messages, and links that were shared.

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First live meeting attempt. Didn't work out well for collaboration during the broadcast.

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Facebook Live Fail - What I did wrong and how you can get it right. (A response to the recent article, http://dscumc.org/2016/10/my-goal-is-to-fail/ )

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Virtual meeting options are:
·      Facebook

·      Skype

·      Meetup.com

·      YouTube

·      Friendsies.com

·      Twitter

·      Bigfriendo.com

·      LinkedIn

·      LiveJournal

·      Second Life

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4) Evaluate options and select the best solution

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4) Evaluate options and select the best solution

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The best two options I recommend for small group virtual meetings are
Skype and Facebook. Second Life would be a great option, but because of the big learning curve and time it takes to set up, Second Life didn't make the cut.
Skype now comes with Office 365, so if Waking Up, Inc. already has licenses for its employees, this is an excellent free option that is already integrated into their work environment.
Facebook is my second recommendation because of its popularity and ease of use. It's also free and no extra software is needed. It works on any internet accessing device and people can video chat, share PDF documents, links, post messages, and more. Facebook continues to grow in capabilities and even has a dedicated work environment called Workplace by Facebook.
The best solution for Waking Up, Inc. is Facebook.

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Hosting meetings via Facebook Groups works great! We can keep the staff Group private so that only staff sees the inner workings of the company, but we could also make up some public groups for special Facebook life coaching.