Remote Team Hacks - Loom

Ask anyone who's on a remote team and they will tell you that communication can be tricky. You understand the words that are coming out of my mouth. Keeping in sync with your colleagues when you're geographically distributed requires that you really step up your asynchronous communication game. Now, there are tools on the market, but pretty much all of them are designed for quick, short form communication. But what happens if you have something bigger to discuss? Something that's too much for Slack? You could send an email, but what is this, the 90s? It's simple. Every time you sign on welcome, it tells you if you've got mail, you've got mail. Surely in 2022 there must be a better option. Meet Loom. Loom is a dead simple application for recording your camera on your computer or your screen, or both at the same time. I'm actually using Loom right now to record this video. But Chris, aren't there other applications that do this? Yeah, there absolutely are. The thing that I love about Loom is what happens after you are done recording. It's going to automatically upload this video to Loom servers and give me a link that I can quickly copy and paste into whatever communication platform I'm using. Zoom or teams, or even send it in an email if I wanted to. And it all happens insanely fast. I've actually never seen a video app process video this quickly and on the receiving end. I love watching a loom because I can play them back at 2x the speed and get through a long message fast, or I can go back to parts that I didn't quite follow and rewatch the video. So the next time you've got that itch to schedule a meeting or write that long email, give Loom a try instead. I really think you're gonna like it. I'm Chris Palmisano with Kai Rise and that is your Remote Team hack.