Delivery – Page 21 – The Virtual Presenter

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Choosing the right virtual seating arrangement

TheVP
posted on February 28, 2009December 1, 2011
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You’ve been to keynote presentations, hands-on workshops, collaborative strategy sessions, and new-hire trainings. And for the sake of this post, I’m assuming you’ve delivered some of them. As a speaker, how you work the room depends on your audience, your objective, how many

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Making Online as Interactive as In-Person, take two

TheVP
posted on February 26, 2009December 1, 2011
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Well, we knew it was going to be big, but the response was overwhelming for How to Make Online Training as Interactive and Effective as In-Person Training on 2/25. So here’s a second chance at the same event: Date/Time: 3/12/09, 11am PST Register here If you can’t wait, you can

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The fastest way to get Q&A flooded with responses

TheVP
posted on February 19, 2009December 1, 2011
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I’m a broken-record evangelist for making live web seminars interactive (see this), but audiences often just ‘sit there’ until… …you call out someone’s name and answer their question. I’ve done it over and over without fail. The minute you get your first

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Using a “hand-up” feature to your advantage

TheVP
posted on February 10, 2009December 1, 2011
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One thing in-person seminar speakers do naturally is ask for a ‘show of hands.’ And as I often argue, presenting virtually – in a new medium – changes things. Unfortunately, this means that many otherwise capable speakers fail to engage their virtual audience as fully as

Posted in Delivery, Online vs. Offline, Presentation Planning

How presenting live, via the web, is different. An intro.

TheVP
posted on February 1, 2009December 1, 2011
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One of the biggest problems with presenting online is a failure to adapt to the medium. Over and over I see experienced presenters, whether public speaking pros or senior corporate execs, deliver LAME online presentations because they either don’t see it or they fail to heed it. And