You Need To Be Relentless To Make Your Digital Presentation Interesting December 7, 2011 by Jeff Hurt If you don’t keep you virtual presentation engaging, it will be forgotten! The greatest challenge for those presenting content virtually, is keeping their presentation more interesting than the distractions. Virtual Presentations And Distractions Abound The amount of free or low cost Webinars and electronic presentations is multiplying daily. Our in-boxes are flooded with invitations to … [Read more…] Filed Under: Hybrid & Virtual, Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , digital presentations, digital strategies, presentation best practices, virtual attendee, virtual meetings, webinars
The Essential Stats You Need To Know About Face To Face And Virtual Events [Infographic] November 9, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Any of these stats surprise you? Do you plan to use digital events in the near future and if so, why? Filed Under: Hybrid & Virtual Tagged With: , digital events, digital meeting, digital tradeshow, meeting planning best practices, virtual event, virtual meetings
Six TV News Techniques To Use With Your Digital Events November 4, 2011 by Jeff Hurt The art of delivering presentations to remote audiences is anything but new. Radio and television have been doing it for decades. Broadcast Professionals Share The Same Challenges Radio and TV personalities face many of the same challenges that digital event organizers and presenters face. They present to remote, invisible and silent audiences. They can’t see … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Hybrid & Virtual Tagged With: , digital events, digital presentations, digital strategies, presentation best practices, virtual attendee, virtual events
Eight Ways To Spook Your Remote Audience October 28, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Presenting to a face-to-face audience is difficult, even scary. Presenting to a remote audience in a webinar, teleseminar or virtual event is difficult squared. It can be frightening and unsettling. Eight Ways To Haunt Your Remote Audience Here are eight non-tips and tricks that horror movies avoid. These are guaranteed to create dread and fear … [Read more…] Filed Under: Hybrid & Virtual, Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , digital events, digital presentations, hybrid event, hybrid meetings, virtual attendee, virtual event, virtual meetings
The Top Reason Your Virtual Presentation Failed October 19, 2011 by Jeff Hurt I remember the first time I gave a virtual presentation. I was in a small conference room with six other panelists. A camera on a stand faced me. To my left was a computer that looked like a mashup of the old overhead projector and a touch screen. A large screen displaying six feeds at … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education, Experience Design, Hybrid & Virtual, Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , digital meeting, digital presentations, presentation best practices, virtual event, virtual meetings
Improving Member Loyalty Via Digital Events August 8, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Lower costs of conducting digital and hybrid events is making it easier for competitors to reach your market and their wallets. Here is the PPT from the presentation that Dave Lutz and I did for ASAE11 on improving member loyalty. Improving Member Loyalty Via Digital Events View more presentations from Jeff Hurt. What are your … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Technology, Hybrid & Virtual Tagged With: , digital events, digital strategies, virtual events
Speaker Tips When Using A Live Stream, Backchannel And Face To Face Experience June 30, 2011 by Jeff Hurt In the past two weeks, I’ve done three live streamed presentations. It’s more work than a traditional presentation. With a few tweaks to my traditional face to face presentation, everyone benefits. The rewards of the extra work are worth it! Presenting To Three Audiences At Once The challenge when presenting for a hybrid event is … [Read more…] Filed Under: Hybrid & Virtual, Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , backchannel, hybrid event, meeting planning best practices, presentation best practices, presentation str, speaker, speaker tips, twitter, virtual events
Five Traits Of Outstanding Online Presentations June 22, 2011 by Jeff Hurt The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we are ready for it. ~ Arnold Glasgow The number of poor online presentations is rapidly growing. The number of poor virtual presenters is expanding even faster. Poorly designed webinars, boring online conferences, ineffective hybrid events and emotionless virtual meetings litter our digital landscape … [Read more…] Filed Under: Hybrid & Virtual, Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , digital presentations, hybrid events, virtual, virtual experiences, webinars
The Conference Attendee Of The Future April 29, 2011 by Jeff Hurt Is this the conference attendee of the future? It looks like a smart phone attached to a Segway. It’s a video conferencing robot that can be controlled from anywhere in the world. Imagine this: a remote conference attendee navigating the conference venue, interacting with colleagues, roaming the exhibit hall and performing a wide range of tasks. … [Read more…] Filed Under: Hybrid & Virtual Tagged With: , attendee engagement, conferences, hybrid, virtual attendee
Live Streaming: Hollywood Production Value Or Good Enough For Learning April 12, 2011 by Jeff Hurt It’s the end of the (meetings) world as we know it. ~ Paraphrase, R.E.M. “This might be the beginning of the end…and the dawn of a new era in which people think recorded video as passé and demand live streaming of events,” says Priya Ramesh on The Buzz Bin Blog. YouTube Going Live “With over … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Technology, Hybrid & Virtual Tagged With: , conference, digital events, event technology, hybrid events, hybrid meetings, livestreaming, virtual attendee, virtual event
