Virtual Presentations: Design and Production Tips

What It Looks Like and Sounds Like: Tweaking Design Elements and Production Values for Virtual Education

Wednesday, August 17, 2:00pm EDT.

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Although online education–webinars, YouTube, Blackboard, Moodle, iTunes, podcasts–is relatively new, the foundations for designing effective programs go back decades, and even centuries. What can we learn from radio newscasters, graphic designers, poets, filmmakers, printers, actors, musicians, and painters to improve the look, sound, and feel of our virtual programs?

Even if you don't have training in graphic design and sound engineering, you can improve the effectiveness of your virtual education programs with a few neat tricks.

Topics: Create checklists and agendas, address production issues before, during, and after, apply classic rules of legibility and commercial design to 21st Century presentations, upgrade sound and recording issues, and collect more practical technology tips.

The New Virtual Body Language

Using Your Voice for Impact in Online Meetings (Citrix)

November 16, 12noon EST.

A new 1080 Group survey reveals that "the quality of the presenter's voice and delivery" fundamentally affects the success of a webinar.  The good news? Sure, you can't change the voice you were born with, but you can change how well your voice communicates confidence, conviction, trust and authority.  Join Roger Courville, webinar expert and author of The Virtual Presenter's Handbook, for a practical 50-minute demonstration of how to transform your voice to grab attention and deliver impact.

Get The Most From Powerpoint When Building Elearning Courses

Wednesday, August 18, 1:00pm EDT.

Everyone loves to bash PowerPoint. Let’s face it, though: It’s the tool most of us have access to and know how to use. No worries - In the right hands and combined with the right tools, PowerPoint can be a powerful for building creative and highly effective eLearning courses.

Tom Kuhlmann is just the person to show us how to use PowerPoint to its fullest, even to points far past the vision of PowerPoint’s creators. Having spent 15 years developing and managing eLearning projects – and being the focal point for a community of over 60,000 trainers, eLearning developers and instructional designers – Tom’s experience enables him to reveal the hidden power of PowerPoint that most of us are unaware of. He’ll show us tips and course-building techniques that engage learners and are key to accomplishing the organization’s learning objectives.

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Beyond Slideshows

Beyond Slideshows: Influence Decisions With Effectively Planned And Delivered Web-Based Presentations

June 22, 1:00pm EDT. (Elluminate). Originally scheduled in April.

Presenting online - versus presenting in-person – brings own set of challenges and opportunities. Sure you don’t have to fret about what you’re wearing or if you’re going to trip while on stage, but you do have to think about how to engage and interact with your audience – all while you cannot see them!

Join Webinar expert and author of the new book, The Virtual Presenter’s Handbook, Roger Courville, to jump start your success when planning, designing, and delivering online presentations.

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Engage Members with Virtual Events

Tuesday, April 13, 2:00pm EST.

Do you communicate with your association members using web conferencing? Are you thinking about adding webinars to your mix? I’ll be giving a free web seminar with tips and tricks to make sure you capture and engage your audience’s attention before, during, and after your online event.

Although I’ll be framing my material in the context of associations and their members, you should be able to use the concepts for any web event broadcast to a target audience, so don’t be shy about signing up.

KRM Information Services is hosting the webinar and they have asked me to also spend time talking about the integration of social media such as Twitter and Facebook with webinar production and delivery. I don’t usually spend much time commenting on that aspect of our increasingly connected business world, so don’t miss this chance to ask your questions about the impact of external communication channels on web conferencing.

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Best Practices for Webinar Presenters

Tuesday, March 23, 3:00pm EST.

This is a great opportunity to get advice on how to become a more comfortable, confident, and effective webinar presenter. If you are a moderator or event organizer, let your presenters know about this session and suggest that it will make them feel more relaxed about their presentations.

Speaker: Ken Molay, Webinar Success

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