1. They are best used for short meetings and/or meetings with participants who are spread out over a large geographic area. If your organization is holding a meeting and the participants are all within the organization and located nearby, the meeting should be held in person.
2. When I'm a participant in a web meeting in a setting that would have been conducted as a formal business meeting before COVID, I always dress appropriately and even go to my office so I can appear on the screen in a professional setting.
3. Anyone who has demonstrated a woeful lack of consideration and/or engaged in irritating behavior during web meetings over the last year has permanently lost all credibility in my eyes. That means the stupid dog on your lap during the meeting is more professional than you are. It means get the kids the hell out of the room when you're in a web meeting. And it means I will NEVER do business with the jackass who sits in on my business networking group web meetings with his iPhone constantly pinging and interrupting the meeting while others are speaking.
4. Web meetings should be held as a matter of convenience and should never be an excuse for laziness.
5. Meetings should be held either in person or online -- rarely ever BOTH. Unless the meeting is mainly a presentation and not an active, engaged discussion, mixing live participants with online participants doesn't work well at all, in my experience.
I agree with all your points
Thank you so much for your input.
I’m of the kind that now there are three types of being with other humans
1- in person.
2- Video.
3- Phone.
(.4). Thinking about / praying for someone
(5). Email /. text.
Number one is 100 times more important than 2 and 3.
Many times. 3. Is better than 2. Just a phone conversation