Conference calls with slides have become a more important presentation tool for businesses. Two main ways have evolved to do conference calls. The first and oldest is to send a Powerpoint document in advance to the call guests. During the call the host will call attention to different slides or points on the document. Each guest manages what they see. While a successful mode of presentation it has several possible shortcomings:
Just imagine flying at thirty five thousand feet and attending live webinars via wi-fi. Or emailing and instant messaging as the airplane drones across the cloudless August skies of mid-America.
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We have stepped into an exciting new paradigm for learning via the advance of web conferencing and webinar technologies. If you are a business, educational or public sector professional, ICWE has put together a 2 day professional meeting called ‘New Learning Cultures’. You will rub elbows with over 2000 participants from 100 countries. (more…)
One of the challenges of doing a Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation for your webinar is dressing up your slides to convey a professional image. Many of us are technically challenged when designing PowerPoint™. Also, we may not have the eye for design or the time to create visually appealing and compelling presentations. Poorly designed unreadable PowerPoint™ slides can leave your webinar audience clueless. (more…)
Powerpoint has become an essential part of doing a webinar. At the same time the quality of powerpoint presentations vary widely. If it is poorly designed your audience starts to shift attention from your presentation to doing computer work, reading the news online, checking twitter accounts and facebook. In other words, you are not the only game in town! (more…)
Are you wondering how to do a webinar? If so you have come to the right place. If you would first like a little more information on webinars, you may want to check out this post, Defining Terms: Webinar.
Webinar leaders can reach hundreds of thousands of people, but its like herding cats (see video at the end of this post). Each participant comes with a different set of expectations and attention span. (more…)
It is amazing how much we take for granted in the industry of which we work. Do the people (your clients) understand the language you use on a day-to-day basis? We would like to take this opportunity to define these four common terms: conference call, webinar, webcasting and web-conferencing. (more…)
