What can Bruno Mars teach us about audience engagement for our ballroom experiences? Plenty. Earlier this week, I witnessed 7,000 participants (from Linksters to Boomers) stand, clap, sing and dance for 75 minutes at his sold-out Denver Moonshine Jungle concert. If you saw his performance at the 2014 Super Bowl halftime, you already know the enormous talent that’s packed into this five-foot tall young man. The dude is a triple threat! Emotional Journeys Improve the Experience Bruno … [Read more...]
Association Virtual Event Strategy Benchmarking
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. - Ferris Bueller Virtual event strategies are evolving fast too! First, many tried to monetize them (instead of viewing them as a campaign). Next, quite a few associations embraced hybrid as their future. Now we’re seeing a trend emerging with scheduled replays. But do any of us know what’s working best or what the future holds? We Need More Data Luckily, our friends over at Tagoras are going to … [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 Conference Attendee Of The Future
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. It's the next best thing to being there physically, walking the show floor and attending the sessions. Watch this video of the Masie Center's … [Read more...]
Live Streaming: Hollywood Production Value Or Good Enough For Learning
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 2 billion views a day, it's easy to think about YouTube as a place to watch videos recorded in the past. But you’ve told us you want more - and that includes events taking place right now," says … [Read more...]
