Listen to this interview from Wayne Turmel (http://www.greatwebmeetings.com/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayneturmel) who has been speaking and consulting on communications and successful meetings in particular for a very long time.

1. Episode 278: Meet Like You Mean It – Virtual Project Meetings Made Easy (Free)
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If you're going to bother holding a meeting, then you should meet like you mean it.
This statement comes from Wayne Turmel (http://www.greatwebmeetings.com/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayneturmel) who has been speaking and consulting on communications and successful meetings in particular for a very long time.

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Wayne Turmel (http://www.greatwebmeetings.com/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayneturmel) . In his latest book is called Meet Like You Mean It: A Leader's Guide To Painless And Productive Virtual Meetings. In the book and also in our interview he argues that if you're a project manager, you have to learn how to use today's online meeting tools to get great input, maximum participation, and engagement from your participating project team members. Virtual meetings should be an integral part of the way we work and manage our projects, and not an excuse to answer emails.

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The following are the first few pages of the transcript.
Hello, Wayne and welcome back to The Project Management Podcast™!
Thanks, Cornelius. It's nice to be back or wherever it is that we are.

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Cornelius Fichtner: It's been a while.
Wayne Turmel: It has! I think it was just before the sad demise of the Cranky Middle Manager show.
Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah, you have to write more books then I can invite you more often.
Wayne Turmel: Okay!

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Cornelius Fichtner: Alright! So we are going to talk about your new book today, parts of your new book. It is called "Meet Like You Mean It, A Leader's Guide to Painless and Productive Virtual Meetings" and we are going to open up that book and we are going to take a look at a couple of chapters inside of it, the technology chapter and the planning chapter.
But first of, what's your personal favorite technology or tools when you are holding a virtual meeting these days and why do you choose that particular one?
Wayne Turmel: Yeah, a lot of people are hung up on the technology. Truthfully, as a business and everything, we're platform agnostic. I don't really have a dog in that fight. I generally use WebEx, some version of WebEx meeting center, training center, event center depending on the type of event that we're doing and the reason is just that I happen to like the interface.

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It's what I grew up with, I'm used to it. And it works across most people's platforms. It works equally Mac and PC. And most people are familiar with it.
I mean as a matter of fact, WebEx has kind of become the Kleenex of the collaboration space. It has become a generic term people use it, well let's get on a WebEx even when they are not using it. But truthfully, I'm not emotionally connected to it. Most of the platforms, most of the kind of name brand platforms will do 90% of what you want it to do.
Cornelius Fichtner: So let's break that emotional connection that you don’t have with WebEx. What tool would you use if I told you are no longer allowed to use WebEx?

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