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May 26, 2020
Get More From Your Virtual Platform: Confessions of an Accidental Platform Expert
For the foreseeable future, our working lives will require quite a bit of communication through virtual platforms: conference calls, video meetings, weekly webinars, and team chats. Way before the Zoom fatigue set in, most of us were accustomed to virtual meetings and remote presentations that have felt…mediocre at best. Even as the remote workforce has [...] continue reading
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May 20, 2020
Cut Through the Noise: How to Design Slides for Virtual Presentations
Before you start pushing pixels on your next slide, take a moment to put on your design thinking cap. Design thinking isn’t just knowing how a design program works, or what colors look nice next to each other. You’re actively design thinking—even in your non-design jobs—when you’re thinking about how a user might be using [...] continue reading
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May 12, 2020
Delivering Dynamic Virtual Presentations: How to Stand out in the Crowd
These days, we’re all inundated with virtual presenters. It seems every week we’re sitting through more and more virtual presentations. Think of how many you’ve sat through in the last month. Every one of those presenters wants to communicate something important. They’re hoping to get results from that presentation in one way or another. In [...] continue reading
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May 5, 2020
Facilitating Virtual Collaboration: Tips and Tricks for Being Creative Virtually
While our new virtual world has changed the way we do business, it hasn’t stopped the creative wheel. Many of us are still tasked with solving creative challenges for ourselves, our clients, and customers. From creating a new business model, to naming a new product, to finding ways to make your event happen virtually, teams [...] continue reading
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April 28, 2020
5 Things CanceledCon Taught Me About Virtual Events and Life
At the end of February, I found out that an event I was looking forward to—Creative South—was getting postponed, along with countless others. Not even a day later, Andrew Hochradel, the emcee of the event, came up with an idea for a free, online creative conference. Let’s just say it was well received, and CanceledCon [...] continue reading
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April 27, 2020
Step Up Your Virtual Setup: Quick Fixes to Look and Sound Great From Anywhere
We’ve all been there. Receiving a virtual pitch from a backlit silhouette or straining to understand the garbled audio of a co-worker. You may have been the culprit yourself once or twice (I know I have been). Thankfully, we are all more forgiving of these faux pas because we’ve all been thrust into this non-ideal [...] continue reading
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April 20, 2020
3 Ways to Inspire Others with Data Stories
Data helps organizations gain valuable insights into customers, employees, products and markets, but there is a limit to what databases and charts can do on their own. Answers to organizational problems or opportunities don’t just organically spring from algorithms—they need communicators to translate the information into compelling stories. It is data stories that ultimately bring [...] continue reading
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April 17, 2020
How to Lead Better Virtual Meetings
Leading effective meetings is hard enough; and suddenly, we all have to be just as effective without the benefits of meeting in person. That means connecting with people, delivering a point of view, facilitating discussion, and charging toward a new action or result by the end of your meeting—all while dealing with poor video/audio connections, [...] continue reading
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April 14, 2020
Powerful Women Speakers: Leila Janah
Leila Janah was a powerful speaker who could capture and hold the attention of her audience. During speeches and while writing on her blog, she’d often share her immigrant story and the events in her life that made her to want to change the world. Unfortunately, the world lost Leila Janah early in career due [...] continue reading
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April 7, 2020
3 Ways to Effectively Communicate to Different Types of Decision-Makers
When preparing to communicate data to a specific type of decision-maker, you need to think through who will be involved in its approval and tailor your approach to appeal to each of them. Consider carefully what different audiences need to hear, and how they want to hear it. Whenever your audience changes, so should the [...] continue reading
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