# Small concept with big impact

**URL:** <https://forum.essenceofsoftware.com/t/small-concept-with-big-impact/144>\
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**Created:** [August 23, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.essenceofsoftware.com/t/small-concept-with-big-impact/144 "2022-08-23T13:54:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![dnj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.essenceofsoftware.com/dnj/32/17_2.png) [@dnj](https://forum.essenceofsoftware.com/u/dnj)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.essenceofsoftware.com/t/small-concept-with-big-impact/144/1 "2022-08-23T13:54:59Z")

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Could Zoom’s business be at risk because of a single missing concept?

> **[For Want of a Nail…](https://essenceofsoftware.com/posts/missing-concept/)**
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> When critical concepts are missing

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**Author:** ![annette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@annette](https://forum.essenceofsoftware.com/u/annette)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.essenceofsoftware.com/t/small-concept-with-big-impact/144/2 "2022-09-06T19:53:00Z")

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No question that the meetinglist concept you propose would help some users, and would likely not harm any, provided it does not become the only way to reference a meeting. As you point out, from Zoom’s point of view, I can see that there would be definite benefits, in gently tying users to that particular platform. But users don’t always get to pick their platforms.

For _my_ use, in a daily workflow where I don’t drive every gathering, I do need to be able to hop onto a Teams meeting, a WebEx call, a scheduled telephone call and even an occasional gathering in a real meeting room, with no electronic sharing, I will always need a way to reference meetings outside of any particular meeting platform. My Outlook calendar represents many appointments and other reminders in my day, not nearly all of them happen over Zoom.

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**Author:** ![dnj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.essenceofsoftware.com/dnj/32/17_2.png) [@dnj](https://forum.essenceofsoftware.com/u/dnj)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 12:33am UTC](https://forum.essenceofsoftware.com/t/small-concept-with-big-impact/144/3 "2022-09-07T00:33:47Z")

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@annette: Yes, good point. Maybe some much more fluid kind of calendar integration is possible? Perhaps a richer [data detector](https://artifex.org/~bonnie/pdf/Nardi_program_agents.pdf) concept so that all these meeting ids could be recognized and easily opened without needing calendar events, or going through a URL in the browser.