by Todd Lucier on April 16, 2011
The biggest challenge for delivering meaningful conference presentations with remote video is in engaging the audience from outside the room. I think later this year we’ll see a number of posts on how to give a great remote keynote, until then, consider the basics. If I had this video to shoot again, I’d take out the reference to powerpoint type presentations for Keynotes.
I think PPT is fine for some online learning experiences, but not Keynote presentations. When I gave the Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia presentation I stuck with face time and didn’t show any slides. There may be a time for remote powerpoint slides, but I think it’s better to be animated and be visible on screen.
What do you think? What is powerpoint presentations place on the web?
Catch my online keynote as it was delivered shortly after shooting this video.
Unfortunately, it’s just a thumbnail, but perhaps you can get a sense of how camera work can contribute to an online keynote.
by Todd Lucier on April 10, 2011
Over the past few months I’ve been producing a weekly rant on a variety of subjects under the title – This Week in Tourism. Helping tourism operators achieve high levels of consumer satisfaction by providing rich web-based marketing experiences and providing above average customer service is the focus of these 140 second videos.
Over the past five months, I’ve produced a video each Friday. However twice in the past four weeks I’ve not uploaded TWIT.
Here’s why…. they were good enough, but not really really good.
The messages were great, the audio was great, but personally I was unhappy with the camera work on one of the videos, in another I was unhappy with my temperment – too calm! and in one other case recently, the length of the piece was not consistent with my objective to keep the videos under three minutes long (it was over four minutes!).
As a result, I held them back and didn’t link to the This Week in Tourism Videos.
I know a lot of bloggers and podcasters focus on keeping a schedule and sticking to it. Sometimes, when quality is lacking, I think it’s better to hold back the content and try to cover it another time, with a better, more polished presentation that is up to the standards I set for myself.
I’m sure some folks in the audience look forward to a weekly dose of inspiration and miss it when I don’t publish. But I’d rather have you miss me than give you something that is not quite up to snuff and perhaps risk losing a fan. At the end of the day, I hope to not disappoint, but thought I’d take a few minutes to explain.
What do you think, is good enough, good enough, or should we be focusing on just releasing our best stuff as tourism businesses and communities? Do you have quality control standards? Who’s responsibility is it to keep the standards high in your organization?
