observation deck – Page 3 – The Virtual Presenter

Ken, thanks for the kind comments on the book

TheVP
posted on August 26, 2009December 1, 2011
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You know what’s cool? Watching people improve. As a dude with a teacher’s heart, there’s nothing I love more than helping someone have an AHA! moment, and as a professional I spend a lot of time teaching people who may not have studied my webinars and presentations as much as I

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Plans for a season

One of my duties when at PlaceWare, Microsoft, and then as a VP at Corvent was to forecast demand for services. This need led to exhaustive analysis of the use of web seminars over many years, including how many events we’d produced every week of every year for years running. What I found

Twitter, presentation audiences, and the “size” question

As an active Twitter community member, I’m an amused observer of the various ways people (“tweeps”) approach the quality vs. quantity question. Some say, “There’s no way you can connect with thousands, so why follow that many?” Others, “More is

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Tribute to Quinn

I didn’t know Quinn Driscoll, but my business partner Scott did quite well. Quinn was Scott’s son. Word completely fail in a moment like this, when a 13 year old young man suddenly collapses and dies. My heart bursts for my longtime friend and business partner. Let me tell you about

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Video hot, webcasts too

TheVP
posted on January 25, 2009December 1, 2011
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Ten years ago, nobody knew what web conferencing was. The closest proxy for them to associate with was video, which over a 56K modem sucked. Just saying. Now broadband adoption, easy-to-use tools that boneheads like me can use, and cheap cameras put everybody in the video biz (remember what