Interact and Engage!: 75+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars
by Kassy LaBorie, Tom Stone
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Perform on the Virtual Stage: Engaging Webinars
In this book, webinar refers to a live online presentation for an audience ranging from tens to hundreds or even thousands of attendees. Webinars pose unique challenges for facilitators who take the stage to engage large online audiences. It takes special focus and attention to storytelling, your pitch and tone of voice, and the strengths of the technology platform to avoid delivering boring lectures. Well-designed webinars also include activities that cater to the size of the audience, and that is the focus of this chapter.
For webinars with large audiences who don’t know one another, dealing with silence can be a big challenge. Especially when your attempts to engage the audience are met with ...
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