This is another option for an Overview slides using transitions.
(To create a video, click the File tab, and then click Share. Under File Types, click Create a Video.)
(To create a video, click the File tab, and then click Share. Under File Types, click Create a Video.)
Plan out the entire process: make sure your goals are clear and that you understand how all the pieces of the event work together. Don’t do a great job on 90% but then assume that one critical piece – audience development or lead follow-up – will take care of itself. It won’t! Identify your audience type:Internal: targeted to employees, teams, etc. within an organization such as CiscoExternal: push to subscriber base or build for advertised external audiences such as an industry or guru contacts/subscriberMatch the right content and speaker to your audience and your objectives: people come webinars to gain knowledge and insights about specific topics that are relevant to them. Align the topic, speaker, and content with that in mind and you’ve won half the battle.Set realistic expectations: Allow 3-4 weeks from conception to completion for each event. Make sure there is enough time within the production schedule to include event marketing and audience development. Make sure you budget all items appropriately for design, creation and delivery.Create a master production schedule for each event and publish it in a easy to find locationThis is a great use of cloud technology or project management databases such as Basecamp, Google Docs and/or Dropbox
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Webinars can be a very effective tool for moving prospects along in the sales funnel to become warmer leads with whom your salespeople can have good conversations. But the content of the webinar and the way you conduct the webinar affect prospect's experience and will impact the quality of the leads you generate. So, before you jump into running your first webinar, here as some of the best practices I have learned by trial and error as well as lots of advice from others.
Online ice-breakers, specifically, include additional techniques that utilize various technologies to further develop a sense of community. Ice-breakers are especially important for online learners, because the face to face interaction is not readily available. Thus, ice breaker activities foster openness that leads to a bonding experience that causes students to feel a sense of community, which motivates them to be engaged in their learning.. Ice breakers can occur synchronously or asynchronously.With the number of webinar recipients online, we have muted all mikes – so we need to rely on chat to do the interaction and the moderator to share the info. I have done this before and it works great. Here are some things I have done before that has worked well with audiences this size. Engage them by asking them to share something unique about themselves that might surprise their peersIt is always good to find out where they are from and what they do but another spin to that would be to ask them to share something unique about themselves – the funnier and crazier the bigger. This gets the attendees thinking and creates some surprises and virtual laughter. I usually start it by telling folks that “I was in the army and spent a summer jumping out of planes while training for the Pan Am games as a swimmer.” Where are you from?Give us a zip code and have us guessGive us clues about your area and have us guess (i.e. I live near the shark tank – answer: San Jose area, home of the San Jose Sharks Get on topic (i.e. Leadership)What do they hope to learn from today’s eventWhich is newer? Being a leader? Or being a project leader?What are the biggest challenges?What one thing do they need to be successful as a project leader?Ask one question about the session and ask them to respond with one –word answers. To make it more fun and interesting, tell participants/attendees that they cannot repeat anyone’ answers. Webinar GoalsOne icebreaker that gets participants engaged and talking is to open the activity with one question---"What are we doing here?" As participants offer up what their individual goal of the webinar is, others with similar interests or goals will chime in and respond to that person. Inevitably someone will joke that she has no idea, or someone will state that he was required to attend by a boss, which should get the participants chuckling. Not only does this serve to break the ice, it gives the webinar host an idea what the participants are hoping to learn.
Cisco has an internal training mandate for each employee – they must take 18 hours of training per quarter.Problem:Not enough high quality content available nor adequate resources to make this happenGoal: Cisco wanted out of the box thinking to solve this problem