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The fastest way to get Q&A flooded with responses

TheVP
posted on February 19, 2009December 1, 2011
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I’m a broken-record evangelist for making live web seminars interactive (see this), but audiences often just ‘sit there’ until… …you call out someone’s name and answer their question. I’ve done it over and over without fail. The minute you get your first

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Using a “hand-up” feature to your advantage

TheVP
posted on February 10, 2009December 1, 2011
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One thing in-person seminar speakers do naturally is ask for a ‘show of hands.’ And as I often argue, presenting virtually – in a new medium – changes things. Unfortunately, this means that many otherwise capable speakers fail to engage their virtual audience as fully as

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Attendee-generated content

TheVP
posted on January 22, 2009December 1, 2011
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This works offline as well as on, but it’s SO much easier virtually… In a past life I was doing some sales training. The problem was that I was new to the company and figured the sales crew knew way more than I did. DING! Have them generate some content. I created a hands on

How many slides?

TheVP
posted on January 19, 2009December 1, 2011
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I was on the phone with Jim today, and he gets it. He’s the chief sales training wizard at a company with 1500 sales people, and he described to me showing up to a presentation with lots of slides and not a lot of time. Consider this: I moderated a web seminar years ago for

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LiveMeeting: F5 for full screen mode

TheVP
posted on January 11, 2009December 1, 2011
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One quick reminder for users of Microsoft’s LiveMeeting… F5 will toggle you into and out of full screen mode. And a tip for presenters… repeat this to your attendees several times during your presentation. Don’t assume the audience heard, remembers, or was even present for