When you’re on a Zoom call, you never feel like: “I’m in the Zoom where it happened!” It is hard to elevate the experience to be a festive, let alone joyous.
“The Spectre of the Zoom Meeting” by byzantiumbooks is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Last season, we enjoyed our first ever virtual Office Party on Zoom, in the free Write Without the Fight group, and we’re hosting my daughter for the gift opening, Christmas morning. How do you make it fun? Especially when most of of us are really sick of Zoom, from work, school, even blah social gatherings!
At our office, we had a great time – and I’m not just saying that! I’m going to share what worked in our party, and give you 7 ways to brighten your Zoom with holiday cheer.
- Outfits/contests
- Door prizes
- Scavenger hunts
- Breakout rooms with Ice breaker questions
- Rapid Answer q’s
- Polls
- Share your screen and have pics or videos ready to view
Target actually has a board game called, “You’re on Mute.” Make up some rules (drinking? punchbuggy? strip poker? air horn?) for every time someone talks without unmuting themselves.
With Omicrom, some of us will be pulling up the castle gates again, and filling the moats with alligators. Even as we’re all sick of it, Zoom may be our only option. So, let’s have some fun with it!