Friday
05Jun2009

Getting Started

  1. Select a time and date and provide details of your webcast
  2. Upload a cover slide and then replace with your finished slides when they are ready (NO LATER THAN 15 MINUTES BEFORE THE START WHEN YOU GO LIVE)
  3. Invite your network
  4. Dial-in 15 minutes in advance and make sure that any guest speakers do too
  5. Listen to the instructions before your webcast goes live
  6. Start your webcast, advance your slides and enjoy your presentation!

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Friday
05Jun2009

Preparing Your First Webcast

  1. Schedule a practice (private) webcast and become familiar with the experience
  2. Prepare your presentation
  3. Remember your final slides can to be uploaded UP TO 15 MINUTES BEFORE YOUR EVENT GOES LIVE but not after
  4. Create audience votes (optional) to better engage your audience in the conversation
  5. Practice your introduction and close sections - this is a key to success
  6. Encourage your audience to ask questions and ask for feedback and ratings

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Friday
05Jun2009

Enhancing Your Webcast

  1. Choose a hot topic
  2. Prepare a logical flow to your webcast
  3. Integrate your audience votes into your webcast seamlessly
  4. Include photos of your speakers in your slides and provide a speaker biography in the details section

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Friday
05Jun2009

Building Engaged Communities

  1. Always maintain a list of upcoming webcasts
  2. Run regular and frequent webcasts
  3. Make it easy on yourself to create content
    1. Invite guest speakers (peers, customers, thought leaders).
    2. Interviews
    3. Reuse content
  4. Mix up the style of your webcasts

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Friday
05Jun2009

Getting Noticed

  1. Schedule your webcasts several weeks in advance
  2. Upload a cover slide when you schedule your webcast
  3. Be clever with the design of your cover slide
  4. Be smart about the title of your presentation
  5. Use each webcast to promote upcoming and previous webcasts
  6. Encourage your audience to use the share features

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