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How to start your web seminar late (and get by with it)

TheVP
posted on July 14, 2007December 1, 2011
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There are some good reasons to purposefully start a web seminar a little bit late. The best reason is that a good percentage of attendees are going to be late getting there (i.e., a previous meeting runs long, they forgot where they put the login info, or they’re just tardy). Problem

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But it worked last time…

TheVP
posted on July 14, 2007December 1, 2011
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Yesterday eve my beloved and I took the three kids to The Children’s Course, a short par-3 golf course that is little people friendly. Midway through the round my middle little one, who’s seven, got frustrated and gave up. After walking a hole without playing, on the following hole

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The power of live, interactive web seminars

TheVP
posted on July 12, 2007December 1, 2011
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In the early days of web seminars an early-adopter client of ours was IBM. The beautiful thing was that their events were great exposure for our little business, because they’d draw an audience of a couple hundred people, most of whom had never seen web conferencing before. Inevitably after

Posted in Content, Delivery, Observation Deck

When you’re so good you can be awful

This morning I met a friend for breakfast at a quaint, non-chain breakfast place. And though it’s a diversion to the story, I have to say I’m never impressed when I show up for a 6:30 breakfast to someplace that doesn’t open until 7. Anyway, we completed breakfast and went up

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Keep your virtual presentations moving

Part of the cause of ‘death by PowerPoint’ is presenters who adhere to outmoded rules. So if those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, here’s a short PowerPoint history lesson that you hopefully will never forget. What is the pain? Too much content on a slide which doesn’t move

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How to start your web seminar late (and get by with it)

But it worked last time…

The power of live, interactive web seminars

When you’re so good you can be awful

Keep your virtual presentations moving