This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.\n\nIn this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Judy Rees about making remote meetings effective, clean language, the series of articles she is curating for InfoQ and the upcoming remote meeting that our listeners/readers are invited to participate in.\n\nWhy listen to this podcast:\n\n\u2022\tRemote meetings and the need for remote collaboration is not new\n\u2022\tReal, interactive, participative meetings and training conducted over video conference is now possible\n\u2022\tWhen you are in a remote meeting, each person who participates in the meeting brings a part of the meeting room with them\n\u2022\tQuality of conversations matters; if you want high-quality conversations then you need to allow time for human, social interactions\n\u2022\tBy having participants turn on their cameras you make the video meeting more compelling than the distractions around the participants\n\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2mcbhlt\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\n\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\nCheck the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2mcbhlt