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...]
Speaker Tips When Using A Live Stream, Backchannel And Face To Face Experience
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 juggling three audiences. The face to face audience in the room. The remote audience following the live stream online, sometimes within a hybrid or virtual … [Read more...]
Make Your Hybrid Event A Romper Room Experience
Are you old enough to remember the children's television show Romper Room? It ran in the United States from 1954 to 1994. It also was televised in Australia, Canada, Japan, Puerto Rico, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Hybrid Event Lessons From Romper Room Romper Room was aimed at children ages five and under. Each Romper Room program opened with the infamous Jack-in-the-Box and the Pop Goes the Weasel theme song. 1. You can do it too. Join us. After the theme song, the hostess would … [Read more...]
Digital & Virtual Event Technologies Defined
No doubt you’ve started investigating the dizzying array of digital solutions for your event: content-capture, hybrid, live stream, on-demand, Skype, videoconferencing, virtual, webinar, 2D, 3D. It can be perplexing. Especially when you are used to planning face-to-face events. Often people confuse terms and technologies. We have yet to adopt a standardized vocabulary for this emerging technology. So, how do you know which type of digital solution is right for your needs? The type of … [Read more...]
Four Rules to Create Value 2.0 for Events
This article was written (well, ghostwritten by me in collaboration with Dave Lutz) for Dave’s People & Processes column in PCMA’s April edition of Convene. Every association is faced with a choice: Find ways to capitalize on disruptive technologies — which enable hybrid and virtual meetings — or ignore them at their own risk. Many planners are concerned that 2-D and 3-D meeting environments or hybrid meetings do not fit their business model and will jeopardize traditional … [Read more...]
Baseball, Children’s Counting Rhymes And Virtual Events
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe Face-To-Face or Virtual Go My mother told me To pick the very best one And you are [not] it. Often when meeting professionals consider whether to offer a face-to-face or virtual event, they feel as if the choice is best made by using a children's counting rhyme. You know... Pizza, pizza, pizza pie Offering virtual will cause our face-to-face to die Or perhaps this is the rhyme you use. Get your fists ready. One potato, two potato Face-to-face galore Hybrid or … [Read more...]
