Screen Sharing for Team Collaboration: Show, Don’t Tell

Screen sharing as a part of daily interactions

While voice calls in Telegram are making news, we also have a great collaborative feature added that brings secure calling and conferencing experience to a more productive level. Starting today, VIPole desktop users can use screen sharing to show and discuss projects right away.

If screen sharing is not yet an option you use almost daily — check out the list of tips below that will help you improve team collaboration with this irreplaceable feature and add a collaborative visual element to any conference call.

Screen sharing is a powerful tool to bring your co-workers located literally anywhere to the same page with you. Instantly show presentations, organize product design brainstorming, view and discuss videos, market your products to customers — and more.

Teams of any size and in any industry can benefit from screen sharing as it facilitates collaboration across departments located on different floors or on different continents. You will no longer need to send screenshots with explanations — with screen sharing you will discuss all issues immediately and make sure others understand exactly what you mean.

Collaborate on presentations, documents, design, and solve technical problems as if you were in an open space together. Bring collaborative decision making to the next level!

Practical use cases for sharing screen

Screen sharing is effective for easy and productive collaboration within companies, and it helps to establish productive and trustworthy connections with business partners and customers.

When you show your screen, other members of your team or your clients see exactly how you interact with your computer in real time. You can show presentations and speak about them during a conference call, speak about your presentations or design samples and be sure they look the way you intend them to be seen and are not distorted in any way. Unlike static presentations, screen sharing is much more flexible. Switch between the tabs of different programs easily and quickly while keeping all your documents in a single environment. Emphasize the details that you consider important, clarify issues if questions arise and get the job done faster to have more time for fun. As soon the work is updated and finally flawless — send it to the team chat or to the customer.

If you are a creative team, use screen sharing for brainstorming, discussing briefs, selecting agencies for photo sessions, videos and product design. This will save you from the frustrating experience of never ending emails or arguing in a messenger, especially when you work with remote contributors or highly demanding clients.

Screen sharing helps you to avoid miscommunication and irrelevant debates. Stay precise and goal-oriented, this will make communication more satisfying.

If you are a software developer and provider, show the benefits of the solutions you offer and speak in details about the features clients are interested in. When you market a product, showing the way it works or looks is much better than describing it.

Screen sharing is also great for technical support and consulting to help customers get started and stay in touch as their needs evolve. When your customers how to get the most of your product, they are loyal. Within the team, you can take an advantage of screen sharing to demonstrate bugs and decide together how to deal with them.

With plenty of services for screen sharing on the market, VIPole is the first service to introduce screen sharing with strong end-to-end encryption.

One of the key conditions for using screen sharing for business is ensuring security of your shared data. It is crucial to organize collaboration in a way for your know-how, commercial data and personal data to stay within the secure perimeter, and well as confidential data of customers and partners, due diligence documents, medical history necessary for telemedicine and other sensitive information.

Encrypted screen sharing within a secure collaboration ecosystem

Secure video calls and chats in VIPole messenger have gained screen sharing tools in the recent update. This tool perfectly complements other features of the VIPole secure communication system designed for small businesses, enterprises, and individual users with privacy concerns. During a screen sharing session in VIPole, you can:

• Start screen sharing in a private or a group chat or make it a part of a call or a conference.
• Select your primary screen, an application window or your browser window to share.
• Switch between program tabs: chats, notes, file manager and password manager during a screen sharing session, as well as during a conference.

Screen sharing is now a part of encrypted team conferencing experience in VIPole. Voice and video groups calls in VIPole empower users to stay agile as they can join and leave conferences anytime, simultaneously speak, choose the front or back camera, communicate securely in chats, share encrypted files. All data flows are encrypted during transmissions and storage and stay safe on all devices where the secure app is installed.

As more than 200 users can participate in VIPole conferences, assigning moderators to manage them helps a lot. Moderators decide who will be on air and who will be a listener, and they can exclude users from the conversation. Enjoy built-in features such as regulating video quality and voice tone, customizing the way the images are displayed and reaching private chats with the participants directly from the conference window.

Encryption has become a widely adopted technology in the recent couple of years, however, it is mostly applied only to chats, calls and transmitted files. VIPole makes teams more powerful with encrypted conferencing and screen sharing opportunities.

Screen sharing is a new option in the encrypted communication system, and it will systematically evolve to provide teams with more opportunities to collaborate securely. In the near future, we are planning to significantly improve the performance of the system to make the consistent experience of large distributed teams using VIPole better.

Download to discover secure encrypted messaging, calling and screen sharing!

VIPole offers end-to-end encrypted messaging and collaboration solutions for teams and enterprises dealing with commercially or personally sensitive information, and individuals wishing to protect themselves from hackers, identity thieves and malware. More at www.vipole.com