# Come up to the meeting 5 minutes before to check yourself
Spend 5 minutes before going to a virtual meeting to do a microphone and camera test.
## Share your screen
Prepare all the materials you want to show in advance, don’t forget to close shady or embarrassing things you don’t want the other side to see 🙂
### Record or Transcribe your conversations
A lot of services allow you to record your calls directly to your computer. This is great if you tend to forget or mishear stuff, then you can go over and listen to the call again. But first ask permission from the other side! If you don’t want to record, you can transcribe the conversation, which is amazing and you could just sit and listen.