Six Tips for Remote Presenting

Thankyouverymuch for this!
Great tips.
I’m a teacher who probably won’t need to do a ‘webinar’ any time soon, but what we are beginning to be asked to do is record our lessons for absent students and place them on the web. Many of your tips offer good advice for how we could change our presentations for this different way of interacting with our pupils. What works live doesn’t necessarily translate to the screen.
I like to go and see plays. When you are in the theatre the play is awesome, you feel the electricity of the actors and the intimacy of the performers, but if you stick a few cameras in the auditorium, you don’t get the same feeling of being there when you watch it back (no matter how you try and edit it). Film on the other hand does work and can communicate those same emotions, but it uses a very different visual language to do it, and plays that have been successfully transferred to the silver screen, have generally needed some re-writing to fit the new medium.
Any new technology takes time to develop and find the best way of communicating with it. These tips you have given are a start and have given me food for thought…
I especially liked your fun-sized chocolate bar imagery!

Cheers!

Very useful. Thank you.
How do you make the slides that look like they have paper cut-outs pasted on them? (”Uh huh”, “That’s true”, “I agree”)

nancy – a brilliant, yet down-home approach to presenting virtually

Everyone who presents to virual audiences needs to read this.

thanks

This is fantastic. The slides were effective (as usual) and you did a great job of covering all aspects of remote presentations in a short amount of time.

During a remote presentation, what are your feelings about Q/A? Should you wait for a certain time (like the end) or do you suggest taking them in smaller groups (after each section)? We go back and forth as to which method is effective in a remote setting.

Masterful.

The image of the face framed by the slide being held by the presenter, and the timing against the dialogue; the switch to this slide on the phrase “your slides have become you! Perfect.

Delivering a set of mostly static images in a “video,” the viewer attends a virtual remote presentation. Again Duarte gives us form that embodies the content.

Nice work.

One other tip. You need good audio. This presentation had good audio, the quality of a quiet sound studio. You don’t have that luxury in a typical real-time livemeeting/webex. Some VOIP calls have that hallow digitized feel. Invest in those quality Polycom’s, test the audio lines beforehand.

Thank you! This is so powerful and useful. One of my business partners and I are beta testing a new HD personal Video Conferencing system. I’m thinking that soon this space will be transformed to desktop broadcasting.

I’ve been exploring virtual presentations as I think it will close the gap between my deafness and the audience — they can type questions rather than speak them (I’m a lipreader, but no lipreader is THAT good). I think I’m missing a lot of key information from the audio that I can’t figure out from the visuals.

I checked out this tutorial, and as always, I am so impressed with your work. After reading Slide:ology at the suggestion of a friend, I have been wowing everyone with my hot new powerpoints. I am now exploring either checking out your upcoming webinars, or coming to California to attend a workshop. I am a teacher, and I am about to take a position where I help other teachers, and I would love to see you generate content specific to our field. Keep up the good work!

Great tips. I regularly do remote presentations with some technical limitations and these tips are very powerful.
I have one suggestion if you use slidesets, though. I tried out prezi.com recently, and it is very powerful. (I am not a shareholder or affiliated in anyway).
Anyway, this was a first visit to your site, but I’ll definitely be back!

I think you have a great idea here for your next book.

Interesting, the remote presentation is a similar situation as the one of a musician who has “to give it all” in an empty recording studio without the audience being present, just staring into a microphone.

great tips for remote presenters we have special interest in combining remote graphic facilitation images to support virtual team meetings, and would like to contact you to get your take on how these images could be best combined with PPT or Keynote presentations – possibly as a Lure In opportunity to keep the virtual team engaged

Dear Nancy,

can you advise me some goog remote presentation software for Keynote oder PowerPoint presentation. I saw some piece of Cisco software in your video. Sometimes I use ichat for a remote presentation but it is limited to 3 person and there a some people out there who do not have a Mac.

Kind regards,
Jochen

Dear Nancy,

Can you please suggest a good source of images? Much of my time goes into tweaking the graphics, compared to the actual content.

Thanks

Kind regards
Sridhar

Nancy,

Very informative. Thank you for sharing. I was hoping for, but did not hear, any comments on annotation tools (e.g. drawing on your presentation, pointers). Any thoughts here?

Best regards,

Mike

Dear Sridhar,

look at iStockphoto. They sell very good pictures and they should fit.

You can also look here. Garr Reynolds from presentationzen has a good link
http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2006/01/where_can_you_f.html

Kind regards,
Jochen