Connecting with attendees in the Zoom Events you attend grows your professional network and—if they accept your invitation to connect—lets you keep track of each other in and out of Zoom Events to further develop your future business interests together.
Requirements for connecting with Zoom Events attendees
Basic, Pro, Business, Enterprise, or Education account
Chat in an event allows attendees to interact with each other, in addition to giving the hosts and sponsors the opportunity to communicate with their attendees. To use the chat feature as an attendee, your account admin must have the Zoom Events chat feature enabled for your account.
When an attendee accepts your connection request, they will appear under your connections list.
Notes:
If the host creating the event has Zoom Events chat disabled (either in their personal settings or by the account admin), chat will not be available for the event.
If a user has their Zoom Events chat disabled (either in personal settings or by their account administrator), they will not be able to participate in chat regardless of the host settings.
Upon entering the event, attendees will see the default Lobby Chat in the right panel.
How to use the applause reaction
Understand the applause/like system
Anyone can like/applause another person's profile or profile section. You do not need to be connections. Once you like the profile element, that interaction begins a chat thread, and all interactions appear there. Likes and interactions with profiles will also be marked and seen from the Chats panel.
You can like the following elements:
Interests
Education
Videos
Photos
Q&A
To like a profile, you can be static, hover your mouse over an element, or click (multiple times).
Notes:
A pop-over text appears if you hover over an element for more than 2 seconds.
The longer you press and hold your mouse over a profile element, the bigger the applause will be.
Hover your mouse over their profile. The applause icon will appear.
Click anywhere on the profile or find the profile section/element to applaud. You can also press and hold your mouse over the user's profile/profile section to make the applause reaction bigger.
In a chat
A visual indicator will show how many applauses a user's profile/profile section receives.
How to use Matching to discover recommended connections
When looking to connect with other event attendees, you can use the matching feature so that you see the profile cards of recommended attendees—based on interests similar to yours—to connect with.
From the recommended user's profile card, you can take the following actions:
Scroll down the page until you reach the Connections section.
Click the Connections tab to view your current connections.
Click the Requests tab to view users who requested to connect with you.
You can search for connections, using the search box. You can also filter connections by Recently added or Alphabetical by clicking the top-left dropdown menu.
How to use 1:1 chat in the Events Portal
1:1 chat is available before, during, and after an event. Attendees can initiate 1:1 chat conversations through Zoom Events networking profiles in the Events Portal with their connections before and after an event. This allows you to maintain persistent 1:1 chats across the event.
Use Event Staff Chat
If you are a special-role user for multiple events, you can access Event Staff Chat. Event Staff Chat is a space for special-role users to facilitate extra communication, before, during, and after the event through the Events Portal.
These chats have the event titles in the chat channel label. These chat channels can be found above the 1:1 chats in the chat panel.
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