Thread by @raulpacheco

Something that has completely revolutionized how I do online meetings is Zoom integration with Google Calendar.

I create the Zoom link, email my colleagues through the email function of Google Calendar, and that way, they can add it to their own (Outlook, GC, iCal, etc.)

There are two ways of doing this (on screenshot, notice the red arrows. You can create a new calendar event and click on the button "Make It A Zoom Meeting") OR you can click on the Zoom integration Chrome extension. On screen right now is what the "New GCal event" generates.

If you use the Zoom integration Chrome extension, you'll need to link both your Google Calendar and your Zoom account. Once you do that, clicking on the blue button shown on your extensions in Chrome will tell you if you want to create a new meeting or start one. Click "Schedule"

The window that Google Calendar creates takes some time to generate the Zoom link. DON'T TYPE UNTIL THE ZOOM LINK HAS BEEN CREATED, or otherwise you're going to screw up the link (I've done that). Wait until the screen looks like this. You can then email this invite (red arrow)

Because I'm a Type A, Virgo, Upholder (a la Gretchen Rubin), I email a Google Calendar invite AND I also email separately with the contents of the "Details" box, which includes the well known "Raul Pacheco-Vega is inviting you to a Zoom meeting", URL, meeting ID and password.

You can edit meeting title (green arrow) and email the contents of the details box (red arrow)

I also do another trick: when I'm sent a link (Webex, Zoom, BlueJeans), I create a GCal event and in "Location:" I paste the link. And in the details box I add meeting ID and password