The Virtual Presenter – On the business, strategy, and impact of webinars, webcasts, and virtual classrooms

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How to increase engagement in larger-scale virtual presentations

Just like presenting to in-person audiences, the dynamics of online communication evolve based on audience size. It makes a difference if there are 5 or 15 or 50 or 500 people. Unfortunately, more often than not, larger-scale online presentations default to the lowest common

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Netflixification (and new research that will affect your webinars, virtual classes, and livestreams)

Changes in the broader culture regarding how people consume content will affect how people want your content. Let me repeat that. And then I’ll share some recent research. Changes in the broader culture regarding how people consume content will affect how people want your content. And while I’m

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Thinking strategically about connectedness in communication and learning using the Mediated Interaction Framework

Frameworks imperfectly explain the world, but they’re also invaluable – particularly when evaluating decisions that will affect the results you desire. From an executive perspective, those results tend to fall into four categories: top line, bottom line, risk, and time-to-result. Even in

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Virtual panel discussions: 5 levels of “connection” created by thinking like a UX designer

Panel discussions have probably been around in some form or another for as long as there have been groups of people assembling. Sadly, though, as pointed out in The Panel Discussion Report: A 2014 Snapshot on the Effectiveness of Panel Discussions at Meetings, Conferences & Conventions, close

Replay: Designing engagement into virtual presentations…for Toastmasters

I had the pleasure of making one of the original presentations to the first-ever virtual Toastmasters club…well before ALL of them went virtual because of the, well, weird cultural moment we find ourselves in. Now they’ve totally stepped up their game, and this regional conference was

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How to increase engagement in larger-scale virtual presentations

Netflixification (and new research that will affect your webinars, virtual classes, and livestreams)

Thinking strategically about connectedness in communication and learning using the Mediated Interaction Framework

Virtual panel discussions: 5 levels of “connection” created by thinking like a UX designer

Replay: Designing engagement into virtual presentations…for Toastmasters