Useful online conference tips

by flattop341
[Crossposted at SpreadingScience]
Tips for Delivering a Successful Online Experience:
[Via eLearn Magazine]

Standing in front of an audience is no easy task, as any talk show host or comedian would attest. Unfortunately when a seminar moves into the virtual world, capturing the attention of your audience can be even more difficult. How can you keep everyone engaged and informed? Richard Watson has several helpful techniques which constitute a major improvement over picturing the audience naked.
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As increasing numbers of our collaborations take place online, these sorts of events will become even more common. These tips can be really useful, such as getting a high quality headset rather than use speaker phone. Not only will they sound better but they will be less likely to yell into the speaker with the misguided notion that others will not hear you otherwise.

Now if we could just modify the speaker spider found in many conference rooms – the one with multiple speakers for several people. They never get placed where everyone can both be heard and hear what others say from the speakers.

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Why no live links?

by Andréia
Obama leads field in unsolicited campaign songs:
[Via The Seattle Times]

Barack Obama is closing in on the Democratic nomination for president, but he clinched the race for the best campaign soundtrack long ago – no superdelegates needed.
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This is why I hate reading some news online – there are no links to any of the music. There are some ULs at the bottom but none of them are live. When they discuss some music, I want to be able to see it now. The major news media will continue losing readers as long as they continue to treat web viewers as afterthoughts.

They need to embrace the new media, not simply shovel over old stuff. The outlets that get this will attract more people. I mean, I can read an AP story almost anywhere. Why not at a site that has live links?

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Changes in the relay after the earthquake

by kevindooley
Olympic torch relay downscaled after quake:
[Via The Seattle Times]

The Olympic torch relay will be simplified, downscaled and open with a minute of silence Wednesday when a leg starts in the southeastern city of Ruijin, a symbolic gesture to thousands who died in a massive earthquake in central China.
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The poor torch seems to be having quite a time. What was interesting in the article was it stated that the Chinese government was originally not going to change anything about the route of the torch following the earthquake. But an outpouring of pressure from Chinese-language web sites and bogs caused the government to change its mind.

If true, this seems to me to be pretty astounding. The government in China is not usually perceived as being responsive to its people in quite this manner. And it would have responded fairly rapidly also. Perhaps the web really can change the world.

Of course,my cynical side would wonder whether the sponsors of the torch relay – Samsung, Lenovo and Coca-Cola – had any say in the matter?

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