Schedule Group Calls in Messager
I love that we can do group calls in Messager, especially for family who lives across the country or for friends from college etc. But we'd have to all sync our times manually. It would be really cool if there was an event option to plan a group call together instead of waiting for everyone to get online.
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Terence Kent commented
Just to add to this - GTM and Google Meet all have wonderful solutions for this situation that completely solve the "sync/coordination" problem you described.
(1) For casual and unscheduled interaction, there is a virtual "open space". It's named, linkable, and has pre-authorized users who can join at any time. There may nobody in there when you join - but you can just pop in. This works like a front yard or open conference room. It's incredibly useful and removes the need to coordinate small interactions through email or IM.
(2) For scheduled calls, a link-based tool works just like you described. However, with the important addition that the invited user accounts are pre-authorized, so they can just join the call as long as it is active. This makes the process of setting up the meeting pain-free.
We could really use this feature since we're all connecting to each other from home these days.
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Paul Browner
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Great idea
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Regina Tubay Young commented
This is a wonderful suggestion ... like setting up a "meeting time"