Establishing Virtual Presence #1
Nancy Pender • October 8, 2020
Ready for your close up? In the age of Covid, video conferencing has become the new normal for business communications. Nancy Pender shares a few tips and techniques for establishing a strong, executive presence when the meeting is on camera.
Make your media messages matter.
You have an important Zoom meeting coming up and your content is ready, but what about your web camera? Is it positioned properly? In this addendum to Virtual Presence #1, I share a simple, yet crucial tip for elevating your on-camera presence.
A few weeks ago, I popped in on a marketing event for a skincare company. A company consultant was scheduled to speak and asked if I’d provide some feedback on her presentation.
If you’ve sat through your fair share of PowerPoint presentations, you know how torturous they can be. While some presenters’ delivery styles are more sleep inducing than melatonin, others overwhelm and confuse their audience by cramming too much content onto their slides and then ignoring half of it.
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I was at a women entrepreneurs luncheon when I notice a striking difference between the delivery styles of two speakers. One was an award recipient, the other our keynote speaker.
It just keeps getting worse for Bill Cosby. The steady drumbeat of sexual assault allegations is at this point deafening. Now, a new low in the scandal. Cosby is being sued by Judith Huth
From the Ray Rice fiasco, to the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal to BP’s bumbling of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, America’s media landscape is littered with tales of PR disasters that could have been averted.
