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If you're growing your team, using Spot to host your candidate interviews is a great way to show how collaborative and tech-forward your organization is. Here's a step-by-step guide to ensure your candidate has the best experience: 1) Event Invite: Across the top of your screen in the white toolbar, look for the Invite icon. From there, select event, where you can put in everything from the time of the Interview, to who will be participating in the interview (use the Description field for this). If you're using Gmail, click add to Google Calendar, or if you're using a different calendar, Copy Invite Link. 2) Lock the Room - Once the candidate has joined for their meeting, make sure that whoever is hosting the interview locks the room that is being used. This will alleviate anyone accidentally interrupting the interview. Just make sure that if it's a panel interview, you unlock the room before you leave! 3) Have FUN! Show off your favorite parts of the office; whether it's the gong, funny pictures on the wall, or a tradition the team has. Your office should be a beacon of joy and pride, so show them around! Let me know if you have any questions about using Spot for interviews, I'm happy to help! A.J. AJ@Spotvirtual.com

Spatial Audio and Spatial Zones are two of our top requested features, so here's a deep dive on their functionality! Spatial Audio: Works great for large workspaces, and promotes natural conversation, just like you're in an office. Everyone in your office will have a bubble around them that as they approach others, the audio will automatically start to pick up. As they walk away, it will progressively fade away, then disappear. Here's a link to our original release of Spatial Audio: https://feedback.spot.xyz/changelog/spatial-audio-beta **Keep in mind that only Admins within an office can enable/disable Spatial Audio. To enable Spatial Audio, go to Settings for the room, and enable Spatial Audio. You'll see an icon in your Left Toolbar, indicating that Spatial Audio has been enabled. Spatial Zones: To promote even more natural conversation, without the team having to stand on each others shoulders, you can design Spatial Zones. Spatial Zones will only work within a room that has Spatial Audio enabled. To design your Spatial Zone; go to the Edit World Function on your left (look for the 🔨 icon). Under the Add objects tab, type in Spatial Zone. You can choose whether you want a your Spatial Zone to be a rectangle or oval, and start to drag and drop them around your office. Spatial Zones will show up in Green on the floor. Members and guests of your office will be alerted when they enter a Spatial Zone area within an office.

If you're using Google Data Studios for any of your BI initiatives, you can easily embed the dashboard in your Spot Office. It's pretty simple to do, and brings a ton of visibility to your entire team! In Spot, make sure you're using a Screen, and select Web as your default content. From there, go to your Google Data Studio dashboard. Click File -> Embed Report. Check the box to Enable Embedding, then select Embed URL. Copy that link, and paste it in Spot in the Default Content URL. Give it a try and let us know your thoughts!! Here's a link to Google's support article if you need some additional assistance: https://support.google.com/datastudio/answer/7450249?hl=en#zippy=%2Cin-this-article

We are less than a week away from NFL kickoff which means fantasy football drafts are in high season. Don’t just draft from a chatroom -- sync up with your friends in our free to use virtual space while you compete for the best prospects left on the board! How to get started Go to www.spotvirtual.com and click sign-up in the top right corner. You will be directed to this page where you can select the fantasy football template and your team name. How to Invite your league It’s not a draft unless the league is there with you! There are a couple ways to send an invite. You can send your friends a guest link that will expire with a time limit or you can make them a permanent member -- allowing for them to join up during the season for watch parties and trash talking on Sunday. If your draft is still 4-5 days off you can select the “Event” invite and pre-schedule a date and time for your league to join up for the draft. We recommend everyone join at least 5 minutes before the draft to get used to the virtual environment before the draft kicks off. How do you share your screen Do you want to stream some sports while you draft? How about the live draft board from your league? Move your mouse cursor over the screen until is switches to a finger. You can either click the screen to choose more options or select the small screen icon above the screen to share. Once you select the option to share your screen we recommend you share a tab from your browser to stream your live draft. Other members of your league could share or stream a game on another screen during your draft or a future watch party. We don’t have draft pick recommendations for you -- but if you experience any issues with your Spot experience, please let us know how we can help you! info@spotvirtual.com

Across the top of your screen, you'll see that you have the ability to put yourself in Headphones Mode. When you're heads down working on a project, or any other time you need uninterrupted work time, we encourage you to use Headphones Mode. If the Spot Room that you're working in has Spatial Audio enabled, you will not be able to hear anyone within your listening range until Headphones Mode has been disabled.