How things have changed at Minuteman Press since the Corona Virus stuff has started to cause lock down

The most interesting change has been our attempts to use virtual meetings.
My Wednesday business club, Boost Business Networking, was initially cancelled. Then, one member suggested using their Zoom account to run a virtual meeting. Now this Zoom thing is new to me. Zoom seems to be the most popular of many similar Apps. It's all a learning experience; it was a bit disjointed affair getting it to work; initially there was an Eventbrite event set up charge of £5. That was removed. I tested it all out ready for the following day; checking the camera and sound was working on my laptop. It seems I could log in via the Eventbrite invite or a separate route from Zoom itself. One of the options required a password. My computer desktop seemed to be filling with Windows. Clear a bit of space and the whole meeting disappeared. Finally got into the virtual meeting but there was no sound. I had definitely checked that! Finally located a mute button and I was in, only five minutes late.
It was plain sailing after that but wasn't sure how people kept being highlighted, was the meeting organiser doing that or the individual? I found a silly little thumbs up icon, so I posted that occasionally. 
I had already worked out there was a 40-minute time limit for free accounts but we were using a paid subscription so the meeting went on for an hour. We agreed to schedule another meeting.
(Note to myself... find out to create a virtual background; does it require a green screen?)

Later in the day I tried to use my Skype account to test setting up a group chat; it seemed even more difficult than Zoom and took quite a bit of Googling to make progress.
Maybe try WhatsApp next, we have used that for family chats, so perhaps it will work for a business meeting too?

The next thing is that we have been quite busy really, though much of the busyness relates to sorting out technical issues with customer's work. One job had to be converted from a full colour print to a one colour print. Another related to a set of artwork for business cards, one of which got stuck in the computer system during the 'automated' preparation process. Another related to a customer changing artwork that had to be rechecked had ticked all the boxes for a successful print.

In the meantime, jobs need packing, invoicing and the customer updating with the work's status.

The Minuteman Press management system had been updated to version 2. The update process is rather manual and must be repeated on every workstation and the server. Anyhow, unlike Windows update process, this went smoothly.

Meanwhile, the accounts lady was sorting the endless bits of paper she seems to collect and chasing a few customers for payment. All in a day’s work!

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