Sometimes the best thing we can do is ask.
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Why do webinar attendees leave (and what can you do about it)?
Suggestions for combining live visuals in a webinar presentation
Jahna in Australia asked…”This presentation is PPT slide – any suggestions for combining live visuals? Does this assist connection and involvement?”
Jahna, I see from the time stamp of this question that you asked this prior to me doing a live desktop demonstration.
Here, however, are a couple tips for doing live desktop sharing using web conferencing:
Spare your audience any steps that aren’t critical
For example, if you log in using a user name and password, it might be worth sparing your audience …
Want to grow as a trusted advisor?
Are you a trusted advisor?
If so, hang with me here a bit…sometimes a poll is the worst thing you could do.
This week I had the privilege of doing a 90-minute session for a private client’s 150-rep annual sales meeting, and as I await a connecting flight I’m reflecting on some of the successes and failures of my 90 minutes with them yesterday.
Let’s start with the failure.
I often do an exercise with a webinar audience where I work with one participant …
Pen-based input for writing/drawing in webinars
How do I use a sketch tablet in my webinars? I bought a Wacom Bamboo Capture pad but it is clumsy and slow. I would like to use a pen tool to highlight, write, etc. during my presentations. Suggestions? Thanks. Rob
Rob,
Unfortunately my experience trying the same thing was similar with the Bamboo Capture. Frustrated, I put it down and wrote off the $100 as a waste.
There are, however, some happy users…of similar products.
Cracking the QR code in webinar presentations
Today’s guest post comes from friend and killer presentation designer Matthew Dyer in Columbus, OH. Catch him at http://flavors.me/mttwdyr or @mttwdyr on Twitter.
It wasn’t that long ago that secret, encrypted codes were only found in movie plots. Whether you were looking for Jack Flack or Jumpin’ Jack Flash, the only way to crack these codes was with an 8-bit bucket of popcorn and an over priced soda. Today, smartphones give us an exciting advantage that Dabney Coleman …
How much time should you leave for questions?
In a recent webinar, Shelly H. asked, “How much time should you leave for Q&A session at the end of a webinar?”
Shelly, I love the question for one big reason: You’re thinking about interacting with your audience!
I think it depends on the nature of the presentation and presenter.
As you saw in my webinars, I prefer to talk with people during the webinar. I’m entirely committed to ending on time, but it means I often don’t have a lot of time …
Five tips for Q&A in your webinars
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post is from Maranda Gibson, the AccuConference socialite, blogger, and writer. If you appreciate people who keep the ‘social’ in social media as I do, you may appreciate connecting with her where we met…on Twitter (@accuconference).
One of the (many) fun things about working for AccuConference is getting the opportunity to sit on conference calls with my clients. There are times when I’m the moderator for the conference and take care of introductions and advancing the slides. There have …
You want to be excellent, but…
Let’s make an assumption: you aspire to excellence, to affect change, to take a mundane topic and inject a healthy dose of aha! into your audience’s lifeblood. Awesome! Me too!
But…
As the saying goes, Sometimes the enemy of the best is the good.
Whatever it is…employee on boarding training session, sales demo, marketing presentation, team meeting, project plan review…web conferencing/webcasting/webinars add a powerful dimension to our bag of communication and productivity …
Vidyo: one gateway to rule them all?
As 1080 Group faithful know, we focus largely on behavioral (rather than technical) analysis, but sometimes something…or someone…comes along that takes a techie thing and tells a story.
Enter Robb Cason and a little backstory. I met Robb in 1999 when I walked to the (very empty) end of the 6th floor office at EnvoyGlobal, a teleconferencing firm, early web conferencing reseller and the first place anywhere to offer independent webinar event services. I could choose any open desk out of …
Odds, ends, Vidyo, and Act Conferencing’s Teem
Down, but not out
A little catch up here… on a personal note, I had a surprise brush with mortality, surgery, and the requisite drugs and downtime. I don’t recommend it.
Views and Reviews
One thing I’ve not done a lot of of late is offer up notes about conferencing companies, but I’ve had requests to offer a few more insights there. In the coming days watch for a couple thoughts about Vidyo and Act Teleconferencing‘s new Teem …
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