Presentation Planning – The Virtual Presenter

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How to increase engagement in larger-scale virtual presentations

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

Replay: Designing engagement into virtual presentations…for Toastmasters

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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Persuasive Content Marketing Presentations: Five Essential Ingredients

TheVP
posted on February 26, 2016February 26, 2016
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Webinars are a powerful addition to any content marketing strategy, and for good reason. One big problem for much of lead generation and pipeline advancement, however, is a tension between what audiences want and what your organization wants: they don’t want to be sold, but you’re not making a

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Lead Generation Webinars through the Lens of Adult Learning

TheVP
posted on November 11, 2015April 4, 2020
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Content marketing is powerful. Webinars are an engaging medium. Yet regularly organizations struggle to achieve the results they want. The answer for many might be to consider their content marketing in light of how adults are motivated to learn. As a framework, below are five principles shared by

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Why and how every instructional designer should include “performance notes” for virtual classroom courses

Think about how written music works. Looking at something on a piece of paper is a FAR cry from real music, right? So what do composers and arrangers do? They include a myriad of annotations that give a musician looking at the sheet music direction on volume and tempo and repeats and mood and on