Design – Page 2 – The Virtual Presenter

Posted in Design, Storytelling, Tools and Tips

Why and how to start taking your own pictures for presentations

One FAQ I get is about where to find stock images for free. I’ll save that answer for another blog post, because one answer I give is that you should start snapping your own pictures (check this out if you want some of my links to stuff like this). In case you need convincing, here

Posted in Design

7 instructional design tips for virtual classrooms

The number of instructional design models is staggering. One challenge is that they barely inform the specific needs of any given medium of communication. What follows is a long way from an exhaustive list, but it does touch on some of the common challenges I observe as I’m working with

Posted in Content, Delivery, Design

6 ideas for applying “Made to Stick” in virtual presentations

TheVP
posted on March 16, 2013September 27, 2013
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In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath make a compelling case for six key qualities of sticky messages. Since webinars, webcasts, and virtual classrooms are “rooms” where distraction is but one click away, besides using various techniques for getting and keeping attention, it’s

Posted in Delivery, Design

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

Posted in Business, Design

Leaning toward an ROI of slide design

TheVP
posted on January 31, 2013February 1, 2013
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Consider this analogy: Great storytelling is about more than the story. When it’s shared live, a great storyteller can dramatically improve how much you enjoy it, learn from it, remember it. When it’s written to be read, the writer’s skill can similarly make or break the