Six Incredibly Boring And Monstrous Mistakes In Digital Education May 29, 2012 by Jeff Hurt The majority of online education is poorly designed and extremely boring. We’ve all attended Webinars that make root canals seem more exciting! Six Big Online Education Mistakes University Professor Guillermo Ramirez, author of The Virtual Presenter, believes that online education is here to stay. Unfortunately, most organizations continue to deliver poor online education experiences. Here … [Read more…] Filed Under: Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , digital education, digital events, digital presentations, Education & Adult Learning, online education, online learning, presentation best practices, webinars
Helping Your Remote Virtual Attendees Succeed As Participants February 9, 2012 by Jeff Hurt Our time is valuable. Many of us see our time as money, a resource that we don’t want to waste. Asking people to commit 30-, 45- or even 60-minutes of their time to attend your Webinar is asking a lot. It’s critical that your digital event provide tremendous value and ROI or you’ll lose your … [Read more…] Filed Under: Hybrid & Virtual, Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , active participation, digital events, digital meeting, digital presentations, engagement, presentation best practices, virtual events, virtual meetings
Drag Is A Four Letter Word To Avoid In Digital Presentations January 17, 2012 by Jeff Hurt Your digital presentation must keep moving or it will be abandoned! As a digital presenter, you can’t afford to get bogged down for any reason. If you do, you will lose attendees. Faster, Upbeat Pace The pace of your Webinar, teleseminar or virtual presentation must be faster than your traditional face-to-face presentation. No, that doesn’t … [Read more…] Filed Under: Hybrid & Virtual, Speaker Coaching Tagged With: , digital presentations, presentation best practices, presentation strategies, virtual, virtual attendee, virtual meetings, webinars
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
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
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
