It’s a new year and a new feature! Every week we’ll be releasing DailyNerd updates with cool tools you can use the next week. We kick off the series with tips for your home office. Apps and Resources mentioned in the video: Loona NordVPN and ExpressVPN Krisp Zoom Logitech Webcams Blue Ice Snowball Guest Speaker Colette Carlson Website: https://colettecarlson.com/
Stop Background Noise with Krisp
Have you ever been on a videoconference living in fear that you’ll get that Amazon delivery and the dog will go nuts when the doorbell rings? The solution is here! Krisp is a PC download and a Chrome plugin that uses artificial intelligence to filter out background noises. I tried it out with everything from pounding on my desk while …
Advanced Zoom Techniques
Thanks for registering for Advanced Zoom Techniques. Here’s the recording. Note the last several minutes have really good Q&A, and we’ll be doing another live session with just your questions!
Upgrade Your Zoom Backgrounds
By now you may have discovered the cool little Zoom feature that lets you add a virtual background. When you click on your video icon in Zoom, the option pops up to choose a video or image for your background. You don’t even have to have a real green screen… Zoom will superimpose the background even over your messy office, …
NerdWords Live: Tools to Engage Online
Now that we’re a work-from-home society, professionals are struggling to engage colleagues and participants online. Admit it: You’ve hosted and been on really.really.really boring webinars. So have I. My sister is a middle school teacher who is suddenly working to engage her budding teens online, and she’s actively seeking new tech to help. She keeps saying, “Oooo… have you heard …
Education Tools We Can All Use to Engage Online
I interviewed my sister, a middle school teacher, and her principal to discover great tech tools that schools are using to engage their students — ones that translate to the rest of us. First, watch the video here. And then come back here for the details. Pear Deck for Google Slides Activity Tool for Google Slidespeardeck.comFree basic version with individual …
My favorite app of 2020: Otter.ai
Well we’ve barely started the new year, but I’ve declared Otter.ai my very favorite app of 2020. Otter is a meeting recording tool that transcribes in real time, even sweeping back through the conversation using artificial intelligence to clean everything up. Then you can review the written notes and click through to hear the audio wherever you want. It will …
Revisiting x.ai: A very affordable AI scheduling tool
A couple of years ago I fell in love with a tool called x.ai, which uses artificial intelligence to act as a scheduling assistant. If you want to find a time to meet with someone, you just copy a “person” named Amy (or Andrew), and the artificial intelligence tool goes back and forth with your colleague or colleagues to find …
Your Questions… Answered at Last!
Oh you guys… I have to apologize. We get questions about apps all the time, and here’s what happens: I see the question. I ponder the question. I start looking up the answer to the question (click here to see how crazy that process is). Life happens… The presentation starts The cat jumps on my lap The plane starts boarding …
Reviewing the Rocketbook Notebooks
Last week one of my readers told us about how much she loves the Rocketbook Everlast Notebook, and you guys loved it! So I bought a whole pile of them to review. Bottom Line: if you take handwritten notes or draw things you need to save or share, this is TOTALLY worth the money. Rocketbook at a Glance Rocketbook bills …
Voicera: A Meeting Recording App for All of Us
I run across dozens of new apps a week that I kind of tuck into my toolbox for later examination. But every once in a while, a tool like Eva by Voicera comes along, and I put it to use immediately. In a word… wow! Voicera is the company that created “Eva,” an artificial intelligence meeting recorder that will change …
Looking for a Webinar Platform? Consider These Features
I give a lot of webinars on a lot of different platforms — and I cause all kinds of problems because of the interactive nature of my presentation. I would guess that 75-95% of webinar presenters will have a PowerPoint deck that can be easily uploaded into the platform, while the other 5-25% of us need other features to do what we …
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