“I See What You’re Saying” – Working with Visuals in Virtual Meetings

December 15, 2010

In this guest post, Michael Randel, Director of Randel Consulting Associates, shares a case study using a video conference and web-meeting tool to support a retreat with teams in Washington DC and DR Congo. Virtual meetings make it easy for people located in different places to interact with one another.  There is a trade-off though [...]

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Going Cold Turkey – How Giving Up My Smart Phone Made Me Smarter

November 23, 2010

When I recently accepted a new position and learned that my employer would not issue me a Blackberry as my previous employer had done, my initial reaction was panic. I immediately started researching for a smartphone replacement.  In the midst of panic, I saw an opportunity however.  I decided to go “cold turkey” and experiment [...]

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Recipe for Success in a Web Conference

November 1, 2010

What does it take to put together a successful web conference where participants and facilitators exchange valuable knowledge, are energized and hungry for more? Whether you are using web conferencing to deliver training, hold a meeting, host a knowledge sharing session or other event, there are three ingredients to consider for a successful event: One [...]

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What You Need to Know About Adobe Connect Pro Mobile

September 10, 2010

Adobe offers one of the most sophisticated web conferencing tools in the industry, Adobe Connect Pro, so it’s not surprising that they were one of the first vendors to release an app to allow iPhone and iTouch users to participate in a web conference:  Adobe Connect Pro Mobile.  You probably know that Adobe Connect Pro [...]

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Mobile Web Conferencing: Do’s and Don’ts

September 10, 2010

Mobile learning is hot right now.  So hot that the E-Learning Guild devoted an entire conference to mobile learning, mLearnCon, this year which attracted hundreds.  This year, several web conferencing vendors like Adobe Connect, Cisco WebEx and Fuze have released mobile versions of their tools which allow users to participate a web conference from a mobile [...]

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Maximizing the Application Sharing Feature in a Web Conference

September 10, 2010

Web conferencing tools like Adobe Connect, Cisco WebEx, Microsoft LiveMeeting and others allow the host to share his/her screen with the audience. When the host shares his screen it means that participants in the web conference view the host’s screen as he navigates the web or to an application such as Excel.  The host retains [...]

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e-Book Review: Getting Started with Synchronous e-Learning

September 10, 2010

The e-Learning Guild recently published an e-Book by Patti Shank entitled: Getting Started with Synchronous e-Learning. This 48-page research report is based on a survey conducted by the eLearning Guild with over 3,000 respondents. The report includes an interpretation of the survey data with a range of tables and charts. If you are trying to [...]

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What Web Conference Facilitators Can Learn From the Movies

September 10, 2010

Many years ago, someone in the movie theater business got the great idea of showing something on the screen to entertain the audience during the lead up time to the movie start time.  This meant that those who arrived to the movie early had something to watch to entertain themselves.  Advertisers also seized on this [...]

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From Face-to-Face to Global Virtual Delivery

September 10, 2010

I’m in Bogota, Colombia this week, observing a day long face-to-face delivery of a business writing course for English speakers to convert to a global virtual delivery.  The virtual delivery of this course will be piloted with several countries in the Middle East. This means that the content needs to be truly global and examples [...]

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Steps to Improve Audience Engagement in a Web Conference

September 10, 2010

Why is it sometimes so difficult to get participants engaged in a web conference?  Well, one obvious reason is that it’s a different environment for participants.  Just as facilitators need to get used to facilitating in a live virtual environment, so do participants.  We’ve all grown up learning in a traditional classroom environment where the [...]

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