Delivery – Page 3 – The Virtual Presenter

5 strategies for avoiding biorrhea

I hope you are a little shocked that I’d write “biorrhea” in a blog post. But you also instantly get what I mean. Speaker bios are notoriously over-engineered. Worse, some online audiences are less tolerant than offline audiences (notably those waiting for a thought leader to take

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Two must-haves for a headset when presenting online

TheVP
posted on February 21, 2013February 21, 2013
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Patrick (@mentormullarkey) asks a question via Twitter: Hey @VirtualPreso, random question, but do you use a headset when presenting webinars? If not, how do you avoid having an ‘echo’ effect? Patrick, The first question is simple: I always wear a headset (VoIP or phone), and I always

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9 ideas for when you HAVE to put all that text on a slide

I love visual, minimal-text, context-building, storytelling slides as much as anybody on the planet. In reality, sometimes you just have to put a pile of text on the PowerPoint slide (e.g., to teach a legal definition, to review wording of marketing copy, or…). Here are some ideas for what

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Do you shake hands at the back of the virtual room?

One part of an in-person experience is the content, to be sure. Another significant part, however, is the interpersonal connection that happens before or after the presentation or class itself. Unfortunately, too many webinars and webcasts miss that experience. But they don’t have to. It

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Meet SlideKlowd

TheVP
posted on February 7, 2013February 7, 2013
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At first glance, SlideKlowd might appear to replace webinar or webcast software. I’d disagree. In fact, I think it’d be a potent tool for anybody hosting virtual presentations or classes to add to their arsenal. Read on. What SlideKlowd does Let’s start with an in-person