3 things speakers should know about virtual presenting

This is a guest post by Roger Courville. You can find out more about Roger in his bio at the end of this post.

Web seminars (AKA “webinars” or “webcasts”) are online seminars or presentations used to synchronously engage remote audiences with any content that can be presented from a computer desktop. Using Web conferencing is simple, like logging into a Web site. Participants engage aurally with audio conferencing using their telephones or computers with headset, and many solutions offer video to enhance the visual connection between presenters and audience members.

Besides reducing travel, webinars deliver many potential benefits such as reaching audience members who may not otherwise been able to attend your presentation or including additional presenters who are also remote. Web seminars don’t replace face-to-face presentations, but any speaker who hasn’t added live remote instruction to their toolkit is missing a unique opportunity.

Webinars are a change of environment, and adapting to a new medium ideally means adapting one’s delivery strategy. Like pilots learn to fly both by sight and by their instruments, remote presentation is much like the latter. Step one in adapting to a new medium is adopting an attitude of creativity. Here are the 3 things to do when you have to give a virtual presentation: [Read more]