Tuesday May 12, 2009
Nancy Duarte's Tips for Remote Presenters
Members of the 404 team watched (and sketchnoted along) with the VizThinkU: Visual Note-taking 101 presentation today. We gathered around the big-screen LCD and watched Austin Kleon, Sunni Brown, and Mike Rohde share their experience and tips for taking better notes visually. It was a great presentation; I highly recommend viewing the archive when it becomes available.
A few times they mentioned the awkwardness of presenting on a wide-audience conference call. Many of us have been there. We’re personable people and feed on the non-verbal and verbal feedback we get when presenting. It can be disheartening to not hear the audience laugh at one of my dad-jokes, or see heads nodding when illustrating a key concept.
Mike (@rohdesign) tweeted about benefiting from Nancy Duarte’s 6 Tips on Webinars video, so I thought I would investigate to see how I could benefit as well. Through the magic of Google, I found Tips for Remote Presenters on the Duarte blog.
Nancy recommends:
- standing up so that your mindset (and consequentially your tone) will be as natural as when you’re presenting in front of a live group
- fighting audience multitasking by “bursting” content into engaging segments
- presenting as a team to increase the audible interest
- encourage and embrace means for interacting with the audience to keep them engaged and
- practice and understand your presenting medium so that you can plan and adapt for its shortcomings
Check out the full post for her details and examples.
I’m feeling more confident about presenting my next webinar (I still hate that word) already.
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Mark Kraemer
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Hello Mark,
Thanks so much for gathering around the big screen for our webinar – I hope it was worth your time. And thank you for acknowledging that many people struggle with communicating in that medium. It was actually a first for me and a surprise discovery how much immediate feedback I am used to! Nancy Duarte is a friend and colleague of mine and she was probably sympathetic, too. :)
Sunni
nice articles………………. …. :)