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  • Delivering Engaging Webinars and Zoom presentations

    Delivering Engaging Webinars and Zoom presentations

    Have you ever listened to a webinar or in a Zoom presentation, and found your mind wandering?  Or perhaps you let the webinar play on while taking care of other more important activities on your computer?  And what if that incredibly dull presenter... is actually be you?  And that the [More]

  • Time for a Twitter Wall? (Part Two)

    Time for a Twitter Wall? (Part Two)

    Looking for the fine print on successfully using Twitter/Chat at your event?  Here is Part two:  [Read part one] 1) Choose a hashtag:  Choosing a unique hashtag is critical; if you choose one that another organization is using, then their comments will be mixed in with yours.  CAFE, for example, [More]

  • Time for a Twitter Wall? Or Chat?

    Time for a Twitter Wall? Or Chat?

    You've decided - or you've been told - that it is time that your meeting incorporates Twitter.  In fact, the young keener in your office has assured you that doing so is actually quite easy - just set up a Twitter wall.  Unfortunately, you know that whenever anyone says this, [More]

  • Social Attention Span

    Social Attention Span

    How long is your attention span?  How long is the attention span of your clients, colleagues, or kids?  The conventional wisdom is that it is very short - 30 seconds - the length of a typical TV commercial.  Supposedly, the attention span of a Gen-Xer is even shorter. Thankfully, both [More]

  • Viral Video Checklist

    Viral Video Checklist

    You've created your own YouTube masterpiece, and after three weeks, it has 137 views.  While the number is gratifying, if you're like many first-time content producers, you are probably wondering how to improve the viewership... beyond 10,000.  Or a million.  Or ten million. While there is no way to predict [More]

  • Audience Assumptions

    Audience Assumptions

    My recent trip to India has once again sensitized me to an assumption that writers and speakers too often make:  that everyone understands what you mean to say. This is absolutely not the case.  Test yourself - what do the following three words mean?  Flyover, Subway, and Removalist. If you [More]

  • All the world’s a stage

    All the world’s a stage

    ...and all the men and women merely players.  Shakespeare may have said this in the 1600's, but it is more true than ever today. Politicians, celebrities and others have always known that an audience was watching and judging. Today, a different paparazzi watch and judge us - we call them [More]

  • Communal Literacy

    Communal Literacy

    Chances are that you know how to drive, but cannot fix the engine. Eighty-five years ago, however, the answer would have been different. Motoring enthusiasts back in the 1930's and 1940's had to know the basics of automotive repair and troubleshooting, as the "newfangled" cars often broke down, needed constant [More]

  • Pictures from the Masters

    Pictures from the Masters

    Today, we go to the world's museums and galleries to admire the Masters.  We see how each brush stroke creates the picture, but often so much more: a window into the emotions of the painter.   And we marvel how indeed, their work has stood the test of time. Unfortunately, we [More]

  • A New York state of mind

    A New York state of mind

    How would you describe a typical New Yorker?  More likely than not, you wouldn't use the same words to describe someone from Los Angeles, or from a small mid-western town. People are a product of their environment, and often will take on the mindset, attitudes, and perspectives of where they [More]

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