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Get a free copy of The Virtual Presenter’s Playbook

  • TheVP
  • posted on January 12, 2015January 21, 2021
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Posted in Presentation Delivery, Presentation Design, Presentation Planning

How to increase engagement in larger-scale virtual presentations

  • TheVP
  • posted on June 21, 2021
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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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Posted in Strategy

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

  • TheVP
  • posted on May 20, 2021January 6, 2022
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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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Posted in Strategy

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

  • TheVP
  • posted on May 17, 2021January 6, 2022
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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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Posted in Presentation Design, Strategy

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

  • TheVP
  • posted on May 10, 2021May 10, 2021
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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
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Replay: Designing engagement into virtual presentations…for Toastmasters

  • TheVP
  • posted on January 19, 2021
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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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