Roger Courville is author of The Virtual Presenter’s Handbook, blogger at TheVirtualPresenter.com, and sought-after speaker on how to improve productivity using synchronous remote communications.
Roger is the principal at 1080 Group, LLC, an independent training firm that helps ...
Roger Courville is author of The Virtual Presenter’s Handbook, blogger at TheVirtualPresenter.com, and sought-after speaker on how to improve productivity using synchronous remote communications.
Roger is the principal at 1080 Group, LLC, an independent training firm that helps companies learn and optimize online presentations and webinars, and his real-world expertise is backed by that of the seasoned professionals at 1080 Group – who together have worked with hundreds of clients on thousands of events involving more than a million event attendees.
Highlights:
* Recognized expert in use of web seminars for marketing, training, sales
* Whitepaper voted “Best download of 2008” by readers of TrainingZone.co.uk (http://www.thevirtualpresenter.com/?p=172)
* Successfully survived, and contributed to, two mergers/acquisitions from startup to Microsoft
* Landed $2 million angel funding, co-founded startup; later acquired by Intercall
* Author: The Virtual Presenter's Handbook, 1080 Group's Web Seminar Producer's Toolkit, and Raise Your Webinar Engagement Quotient(tm), due out June 2010
* Sought-after presenter/moderator (American Marketing Association, Web 2.0 Conference, Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, Product Management Institute, Sage Insights, ITA Conference, The Sales Centre)
* Portland Top 20 in Twitter Influence (#18) (@1080Group)
* For the latest list of publications, interviews, and papers, visit http://www.thevirtualpresenter.com/publication-and-press/
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1. Plan for short attention spans.
Online attention spans are shorter than offline. Craft content, interactions, demos, etc. to be relevant if you have little time...and be thankful when you have more.
2. Find your virtual candy.
Online you can't use candy to get them into ... more