TECH + MARKETING:
How we help

photo by austin distel

We are a volunteer team of professionals, helping people and groups in Brattleboro and southeastern Vermont, during and post-COVID. We take on tasks and projects, big and small, including remote video meetings set-up, computer and network repair, and digital marketing management, strategy and design. 

Request help

Submit a help request here, including a brief description of what you need. Or call or text 802-451-0687

Access public wifi

You can access public wifi in downtown Brattleboro outside of these buildings: Brattleboro Memorial Public Library, 224 Main StreetVT State Building, 232 Main Street

Here is a Vermont map for public wifi spots.

Zoom safely

Should you use Zoom?

  • If you’re a bank or an intelligence agency, use something other than Zoom.

  • If your meetings are not high security, zoom is appropriate. 

Guidelines for using Zoom:

  • Never share a link to a zoom meeting on social media. Meetings that have shared their Zoom links on social media are at risk of getting hacked.

  • Allow Zoom to perform its latest updates, which Zoom will attempt to do automatically, so that you get their latest security improvements. For example, use of meeting passwords and waiting rooms are now required for all hosts.

  • Admit people from the waiting room into meetings one by one, so you make sure they are the right people.

  • Set screen sharing to ‘Host only’. Click the arrow next to "Share Screen" in the host controls at the bottom of the Zoom screen, then select "Advanced Sharing Options" and make sure the option to "Who Can Share?" is set to "Host Only".

  • If you don’t need the File Transfer feature, turn it off. Go to Account Management > Account Settings > Meeting > File Transfer.

Join our team

Call or text 802-451-0687 or email bamatechhelp@gmail.com.

We’d love to have you join us, if you have skills and desire to help people make a successful transition to internet and digital media, which is more necessary than ever, right now.

We welcome people with all kinds of skills, including coding, hardware and network repair, design, social media management, videography or photography, writing for web and social, usability, or any other means for being creative and solving problems using online media and tools.