so krishna has said that a major drawback for me in google meet is we have two major email
providers microsoft and google for various reasons people choose different providers um
but you may have to interact with someone outside your organization from time to time
and it becomes difficult because you can't talk to someone who's on the other kind of system right
and you know i get this challenge we work with different businesses all over the world
thankfully most people are interested in making the switch to google in our line of work
but you know from time to time we talk to our accountant or we talk to our lawyers or someone
else who's using the microsoft ecosystem and that can really be a challenge now i could talk about
this for probably hours talking about you know how you manage documents how you manage sharing
things in google drive but i want to first address your specific question which is around
chat and access to different meeting styles as well now when the pandemic happened everybody
switched to google zoom and just basically went home and worked the same way that always been
working except they switched to doing it online on zoom so you can be pretty safe that any country
any country any company is going to be able to work with zoom right when you're doing meetings
but there's something pretty cool about google meet and that's that they run in the browser
pretty much on any machine so if you're using safari or firefox or chrome or even internet
explorer it's going to work and so you can just drop someone at google meet url and with that
google me url bang they can be straight into the meeting super simple no messing around so that's
one of the advantages of using google meet is for the most part pretty much anyone can join
now if you've got someone who is you know maybe of elderly demographic and the first time they log in
to meet they've got to you know allow access to the microphone allow access to the video camera
and all those kind of like first setup things it can be a little bit cumbersome and so if you are
for example a recruitment business and uh you know you're connecting with new people all the time and
they're not regular contacts then you may want to choose to er on the side of using something that
that more people have access to like zoom but there are some pretty big advantages to going
all google in your business and that's why we thoroughly encourage it you when you have access
to google meet you can click one button and hit record and it's automatically going to pop that
recording into your google drive folder zoom doesn't do that every time you close zoom and
it's got to render the recordings and then you've got to remember to upload them and it just turns
into a bit of a mess for your staff are they going to remember to upload them every single time you
don't even know are you backing up their local computers if they're not chromebooks you don't
even know and so my recommendation is if you can get away with it to persist with using google me
now if you're in the kind of industry where people are using their mobile phones all the time and
they've got to download a different app well that might get a little bit more challenging and so
in that case you may choose to err on the side of something that's um you know more you know kind of
user friendly because people have the familiarity factor with it but especially for your internal
meetings and especially for any contractors or suppliers or anyone you work with regularly
my strong recommendation is that you have a firm policy right across your company that everyone
uses google's tools and that means using google meet and that means using google chat as well that
of course means using the google document format for all of the documents as well and that gives
you consistency but it also gives you the power of all of the integrations between the google world
when you have data sitting in a spreadsheet and you can automatically have your graph
show up inside google sheets google slides sorry presentation when you have a google space set up
and everyone's chatting away in the space and you can click one button and drop a link to a google
meet and everyone can jump straight into that when you have your out of office set up on your
calendar if everyone's using google calendar and you go to chat to someone using google
chat it's going to show you and say hey this person's out of office today so you're sending
them a message but they're not going to get it slack can't do that zoom can't automatically my
g word is going off in the background there slack can't do that you can't automatically do that with
you know using zoom your your meeting recordings are not going to go into your google drive so
if you want to do everything simple and scalable my recommendation is that you do it google and
i know it is a bit of a pain time to time you're going to have customers or you're
going to have suppliers who are going to be doing things on a different system thankfully
most people in the world do have a gmail account and so if you've got for example
a set of contractors and those contractors need access to a google drive folder or you want to
put all your contractors into one chat room most people are going to have a gmail account and you
can add them to one security group inside your google admin and in that security group then you
can add them to the space and that will give them access to it it's not a perfect system but that's
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