presentation planning – Page 7 – The Virtual Presenter

Posted in Business, Case Studies, Presentation Planning

A tale of two companies and their webinars

TheVP
posted on March 16, 2009December 1, 2011
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What is it that you really, really want to have happen as a result of your web seminar? I mean really. This point should go without saying, but it’s violated so often by purveyors of crappy online presentations that it’s worth tackling…via a brief case study that makes for a long blog

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Choosing the right virtual seating arrangement

TheVP
posted on February 28, 2009December 1, 2011
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You’ve been to keynote presentations, hands-on workshops, collaborative strategy sessions, and new-hire trainings. And for the sake of this post, I’m assuming you’ve delivered some of them. As a speaker, how you work the room depends on your audience, your objective, how many

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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

Posted in Delivery, Online vs. Offline, Presentation Planning

How presenting live, via the web, is different. An intro.

TheVP
posted on February 1, 2009December 1, 2011
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One of the biggest problems with presenting online is a failure to adapt to the medium. Over and over I see experienced presenters, whether public speaking pros or senior corporate execs, deliver LAME online presentations because they either don’t see it or they fail to heed it. And

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Where is THEIR “Point A?”

TheVP
posted on January 29, 2009December 1, 2011
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Point A is a big question, really. In planning your presentation, you’ve asked the first two key questions ~ Who is my audience, and what do I really know about them? What should they think, feel, or do as a result of my presentation? (Point B!) Now you need a Point A – a solid