<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>If you're looking for a tool to collect notes during an OS, if you want to use Zoom for video meetings of any sort, or if you're already using Zoom and want to cut your costs in half, you will likely find this helpful.<br><div><br></div><div>Thank you to Michael Herman for sharing his original idea of a "online toolkit" for meeting facilitators to help them easily collect notes during both in-person & online open space events. I finally got this together, and in addition to a notes tool, I added actual Zoom video chat for online meetings. The total price is $7/month (less than half of what Zoom costs on its own at retail price).</div><div><br></div><div>The announcement below went out to the NCDD mailing list a few minutes ago, and I wanted to share it here. Thanks to Paul, Tricia, Tony, and Skye for their thoughts and encouragement a few weeks ago on the weekly OS Hotline. Full message is below.</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Lucas Cioffi</div><div>Founder, QiqoChat</div><div>Hastings-on-Hudson, NY</div><div>Mobile: 917-528-1831</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi All,</div><div><br></div><div>If you're already using Zoom, here is a way to cut your costs in half. If you haven't heard of Zoom yet, it has become the top choice for hosting video chats and dialogues across NCDD over the past few years. They charge $15/month per host.</div><div><br></div><div>Fortunately, Zoom also has a way for software developers (like myself) to build apps on top of their services. I ran some numbers and realized that I can offer Zoom at just $7/month (saving you $96/year). They will bill me a 30 cents per hour per person, so I break even if you use this for 22 person-hours or less per month (that's 22 people for 1 hour or 2 people for 11 hours, etc). I think in the aggregate, I can make a slight profit which is all that's necessary to keep this tool sustainable. This also helps spread the word about QiqoChat, so it is worth the effort and cost.</div><div><br></div><div><b>If you'd like to try this out, please go to <a href="https://tools.qiqochat.com" target="_blank">https://tools.qiqochat.com</a> and sign up for a 10-day free trial.</b></div><div><br></div><div>I'm calling this the "Meeting Facilitator's Toolkit" and I've bundled a collaborative note-taking tool in there for free. More info is below if interested. Do you have suggestions for how to make this even more useful to you? Zoom already includes breakout rooms, screensharing, and white boarding (for drawing). What other tools would you want to see bundled with this? Please do share!</div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail-m_-2768440341493680436gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Lucas Cioffi</div>Founder, QiqoChat<div>Hastings-on-Hudson, NY</div><div>Mobile: 917-528-1831</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>MORE INFO</b></div><div>When you sign up, you get your own personal meeting link/address which you can share with your participants. Mine is here: <a href="https://qiqochat.com/meet/Lucas_from_Qiqo" target="_blank">https://qiqochat.com/<wbr>meet/Lucas_from_Qiqo</a> Your participants do not need to create an account on QiqoChat, but they can if they want.</div><div><br></div><div>Once I connected Zoom, I started thinking... what other tools could I bundle in there for free for meeting facilitators? So the second tool in the toolkit is already available now too: collaborative notes. This seems to be the most needed feature that Zoom is missing-- a simple way for video participants to take notes together. So, when you are getting ready to host a meeting, you can quickly create a "meeting page" on QiqoChat and each meeting page can have one or more collaborative notes pages. This is an easy way for you to keep notes for breakout sessions organized or notes for recurring meetings all in one place.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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