Google has recently rolled out a new tool called ‘Threadit’ to record and share short videos like TikTok and Instagram real. Threadit is developed for professionals to effectively communicate with their colleagues or managers while working remotely.
Threadit is built by Google’s incubator division – Area 120.A team of researchers at Area 120 came up with the idea of Threadit during the COVID-19 pandemic which forced people to work from home. Therefore, they developed Threadit to know whether video messages could help remote teams work better.
Google says people can convey their message more effectively with a video message sent via Threadit compared to an email or chat. Threadit reduces the need to schedule unnecessary video meetings and streamlines the communication between team members from different time zones. Threadit saves user’s countless hoursin meetings and helps them focus on their tasks, increasing their productivity.
How to use Threadit?
- Download Threadit from the Chrome browser or as a Chrome extension.
- Sign-in to the website using your Gmail ID.
- To use Threadit, you have to speak in front of the camera and click the record button to record your message.
- If you don’t like how it sounded, hit record and try it again.
- You can record many short clips and Threadit combines all the clips into one video message.
- You can also record your screen.
- After recording, you do not need to download the video. You can directly share the video via a link with your team members on WhatsApp or email.
- Your team members can reply with their own video messages when they are ready. All these messages will be part of one conversation.
Threadit Founder and General Manager Keller Smith said in a blog, “People from all over the world helped us build Threadit, so using the tool became a great way to see one another without having to schedule live meetings across time zones. I’d send a Threadit to my colleagues in Japan during my normal working hours in Seattle; they’d respond during the hours that worked for them in Tokyo. Threadit helped us feel like we were working together in person, even though we were responding at different times from across the world — it built connections that email couldn’t. The best part? Nobody had to get up early or stay up late.”
Keller also said, “Threadit gave us an opportunity to hear from everyone on our team, not just the loudest voices in a live meeting. We had more control over our time and could contribute when we were each ready.”
