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 are six online education mistakes most organizations make. These are modified from Ramirez' recent … [Read more...]
Helping Your Remote Virtual Attendees Succeed As Participants
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 attendees' trust. Establish Expectations And Responsibilities As digital event presenter, it's your responsibility to make sure that everyone that participates succeeds. You need to provide enough … [Read more...]
Drag Is A Four Letter Word To Avoid In Digital Presentations
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 mean you talk faster. It just means that the tempo of your presentation should be more upbeat. You can't afford to bore your remote audience or they will … [Read more...]
You Need To Be Relentless To Make Your Digital Presentation Interesting
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 online learning communities and forums, virtual meetings and Webinars. Digital presentations and eLearning … [Read more...]
Six TV News Techniques To Use With Your Digital Events
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 or hear their audience's reactions. They can't look them in the eye or watch their facial expressions. They can't see their body … [Read more...]
Eight Ways To Spook Your Remote Audience
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 in your viewers for the wrong reasons. 1. Ensure that viewers' distractions are more interesting than your presentation. Many horror flicks distract … [Read more...]
The Top Reason Your Virtual Presentation Failed
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 once was on the wall in front of me. My presentation was sent via satellite to 21 other remote locations each with an audience of 30-100 people. Every location had a large screen displaying the satellite … [Read more...]
Five Traits Of Outstanding Online Presentations
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 like plastic bags on roadsides. They are multiplying faster than zombies feasting on high density populations. Cyber … [Read more...]
