Design – Page 13 – The Virtual Presenter

Test how your slides will look

TheVP
posted on January 3, 2009December 1, 2011
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Online, there is a good chance your audience will be looking at a view of your slides that is fairly small. Some tools give audience members an option for a “full-screen view,” and a few give presenters the chance to proactively move audience members into a full-screen view. But

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Presentation impact: grab a pen

TheVP
posted on January 2, 2009December 1, 2011
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Another quick point about creating impact when delivering a virtual presentation: tell ’em to grab a pen. When you’re coming up on one of your key points in a virtual presentation, remember a common 1080 Group exhortation: assume they’re multitasking. Q: So how do you get

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Death by online slideshow

TheVP
posted on December 31, 2008December 1, 2011
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I can’t say I’ve check out a lot of ImageGenerator.net, but I saw someone in the distant past use it to create a variation of the graphic below. I wrote my own text, and feel free to rip it off.

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Web seminars as art

Microsoft Word doesn’t make you a writer. Web conferencing software doesn’t make you a web seminar wizard. Because technology gets more user friendly and templatized over time, it brings it within ever-closer reach of lower and lower tech people. By another analogy, though, now that you can

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Beyond bullet points, part two

One sure way to lose audience members is if they can read your slides and know entirely what you’re saying. They can read faster than you speak. If they can read it, they don’t need you. They’ll check email until you change slides. Or they’ll ask for a copy of the slides. Or all of