How to get the best out of video conferencing?

Video conferencing has been around for some time but often the hardware and software was expensive. More recently, in particular due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the rise of working from home, video conferencing use has exploded. Video meetings either from the place of work or from home are so much simpler to organise, participate and technically relatively easy to do. There is a myriad of software now available for a large number of hardware devices we are already likely to own or have easy access to. Even better, it is not necessary to have an expensive dedicated hardware device