Make the Most of Social Media in Your Online Events

Make the Most of Social Media in Your Online Events

If you’re anything like me, connecting with others through social media is not just fun – it’s meaningful.   The same can likely be said for the combined 2.5 billion monthly users of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+.  Social media encourages interactions, engagement, and encounters on a personal level.   Why don’t we utilize social [...]

Get the Most Out of Your Adobe Connect Mobile App

Let’s do a quick thought experiment.    Take a second and count to yourself how many adults you know who don’t have a smartphone.   How many did you count?  Out of the hundreds of people I know, I can think of only ONE person who doesn’t have a smartphone. The simple matter is that [...]
Relieve the Pressure of Online Event Facilitation

Relieve the Pressure of Online Event Production

At your desk, you like to daydream a bit.   You dream of an amazing opportunity: Hosting a webinar featuring a business productivity expert.  It's a two-for-one: you can provide the team a quality training and draw attention to the company.  Then you recall your plans for perfecting an online training course.  It's a project you [...]
Use the Brain Rules to Improve Virtual Learning

Use the Brain Rules to Improve Virtual Learning

The association between molecular biology and success in the workplace may not be apparent…at all.  Or, at least not to most people.   For molecular biologist John Medina, he saw an important connection.  Turning to his understanding of how the human mind works, Medina realized that an appreciation of brain chemistry could benefit the workplace. [...]
Games and Gamification in Live Online Trainings

Games and Gamification in Live Online Trainings

Why are so many people obsessing about gamification in online trainings?  Short answer: Because it’s awesome.   Long answer: Video games are important to our society.  Between all the gaming apps and gamer communities, the Entertainment Software Association recently suggested that upward of 150 million Americans play video games on a frequent basis.  The fact […]

Virtual Classroom

Re-imagine the Virtual Classroom

Some memories stick with you throughout your life.  Memories of elementary school often resonate with many people.  Waking up day-after-day, riding the bus to school, taking books out of your locker, sitting in the classroom, listening to your teachers lecture.   Those memories stay with us, in part, because there was a strong continuity of experience.  […]

Web Conferencing

What is Web Conferencing?

"Web conferencing is a form of real-time communications—"  Sorry to interrupt, but this blog isn’t about definitions …  Let's find something to talk about that is a little more substantial.   The question comes up because web conferencing seems underutilized.  Web conferences are a great medium for communicating.  Although the platform is still relatively young, and not fully [...]
build bridges with virtual teams

Building Bridges with Virtual Teams

Maximize Collaboration with Your Virtual Teams Building bridges with virtual teams is often hard.  There’s no greater barrier to building relationships than the the virtual distance.   To overcome the distance as a leader, we suggest you learn how to build trust bridges.  A trust bridge, similar to a truss bridge – a bridge composed […]

Reflecting on MLK's preparation choices

Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Reflection on Preparation

Between 1957 and 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered over 2,500 speeches across the nation, including the world-renowned “I Have a Dream” speech.  Given on August 28th of 1963, King spoke to an estimated 250,000 people who had earlier marched on Washington D.C.   This speech and King’s general efforts to push for equal civil […]

understand and encourage millennials in the workplace

Understand & Encourage Millennials in the Workplace

Portrait of the Millennial Generation Who (or what) are these “Millennials?  Overly pampered, participation-trophy-hugging, hippie-hipster crybabies?  Awkward creatures dependent upon cell phones and social media for life?  Or, are they the “Gadget Gurus” and social activists that are not only redefining the workplace but reshaping the world?  Different generations may want to paint them as this […]

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