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How To Plan a Virtual Offsite for a Distributed Team
In January 2020, Loommates from around the world gathered in Barbados for our annual offsite — a special time for our globally distributed team to relax, bond, and create lifelong memories together. Little did we know that, one year later, we’d find ourselves in a very different scenario. We thought about postponing our 2021 offsite […]
Announcing SOC 2 Compliance at Loom
We know how important data security is to our customers and for the video messages they create with Loom, which is why we are happy to announce that Loom is now SOC 2 Type I compliant. Meeting SOC 2 compliance is a key part of Loom’s ongoing commitment to our existing and future customers who […]
How and When to Use Video Messaging at Work
Unlike a video meeting, video messaging doesn’t require your recipient to be present to consume your message. In other words, you can express nuanced and complex ideas whenever it’s most convenient for you — no need to bog your day down with endless context switching or feel pressure to articulate your ideas in real time.
How to Build Company Culture With Video Messages
Video messaging isn’t just for more effective work (although it’s great for that, too), but exchanging looms has become a critical part of how we have fun and build camaraderie among our teams.
How Brandwatch Uses Video to Build Remote Work Culture
Video is key to creating a communication-centric work environment. This is especially true at Brandwatch, where we are transitioning from global offices where everyone came to a physical workplace to being a remote work-optimized culture. As government guidelines continue to shift and it’s not advised for people to come into the office, most of us are working from […]
How to Pitch Investors Using Video (with Examples)
Fundraising for startups has always been difficult, but doing so during the global COVID-19 pandemic has added a new dimension of challenges. One of the most immediate changes is that the entire fundraising process has shifted from in-person to remote interactions. No more coffee meetings, walk and talks, office visits, and … no more in-person […]
How Asynchronous Communication Improves Synchronous Meetings
As the team behind Hugo, the leading meeting notes platform, you won’t be surprised to hear that we love meetings. But what may surprise you is that one reason we love meetings is because we don’t have many. Using asynchronous communication instead of real-time meetings can dramatically improve the efficiency of your company, but how […]
How Qwilr Increased Sales Conversions By Up to 57% Using Loom
Humans, by nature, are visual learners. In fact, almost 90% of all the information our brains process is visual. So to best communicate a message, it only makes sense that including a visual element improves the effectiveness. We decided to run an experiment to increase conversions for one of our pre-sale efforts using video. Here’s the […]
Quick Tips From Loommates: How I Use Video to Collaborate on Web Animations
From adding dynamism to an onboarding flow to providing delightful interactions, animations are a powerful tool that can be functional, entertaining, and core to brand identity. Motion can help a brand be more memorable and expressive in the same way as art direction in photography or bold typography. As a Front-End Engineer at Loom, I’m always looking for new […]
11 Effective Communication Skills in the Workplace
As a company that spends a good deal of time thinking about effective communication, we’ve compiled our top, practical, real-world takeaways for interacting in the workplace.
Best Practices for Recording Your Remote Pitch Deck
I recently tuned into a virtual pitch competition featuring two startups I’m familiar with. I’d seen their pitches in person before the pandemic, so I was especially excited to see how they’d translate in a virtual format. Sadly, my enthusiasm didn’t last long. These otherwise dynamic presentations came across sloppily online for two reasons: The […]
How Doopoll Converted 2.13% More Users By Sending Welcome Videos Via Loom
When people say that “time is money,” what they usually mean is that they don’t have the time to interact in the way only humans can: with warmth, empathy, and attention. There are few places that this adage is more applicable than in the startup world. For the past five years, I’ve been building doopoll, a real-time […]
iPhone Screen Recording Tutorial
Now more than ever, people are relying on video communication to record what’s on their screens to document and share information at work. But when it comes to your iPhone screen, there are times when you may want a more efficient or powerful option for your video message for screen recording than Apple’s default app. Since work happens […]
Quick Tips From Loommates: Capture High-Level Details In Short Video Messages
When teams grow fast, it can be hard to keep tabs on what everyone works on from each week. As a brand designer, along with trying to catch up on what design projects my teammates have in progress, I also want to stay connected with them and our broader design cohort in an increasingly digital […]
20:VC Podcast: 3 Key Rules To Operate Remote Teams Successfully
After listening to many of his episodes and feeling like I knew him, I had the pleasure of finally meeting Harry Stebbings. What a gem of a human. We got to have a chat for his podcast, The Twenty Minute VC. Check out the episode here. We covered a range of topics, including: The 3 rules to […]