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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

Candid

After two years of teaching online in a variety of formats and structures, one thing that I’ve realized is that when the camera is off, people may be long gone—or at least disengaged. . If you are lecturing, showing slides, otherwise not engaging the audience for more than 10 minutes, something needs to change. Break it up—or don’t!

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Guest Post: Maintaining a connection with pandemic-inactive volunteers

Twenty Hats

The video calls have a consistent structure to them. This addition is a slide show of photographs that the volunteers email to me. My favorite addition was a film clip I used as the finale for the first slide show — a 70ish volunteer tap dancing! For both shows, I used PowerPoint to create the slides and captions.

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Two Excellent Examples of Storytelling about web.20 adoption in slide shows

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note the visual style with a narrative structure. I especially like slide 13 Here are two wonderful slideshows I found on Slideshare both on the same topic: Web2.0 adoption at the enterprise level. This are very engaging ways to do presentations.

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4 Steps to Breaking Down Complicated Content

Media Cause

But with a little bit of structure and curiosity, it becomes a lot easier to learn and iterate to better connect with your audience. . Every cause has multiple reasons why someone should care, and depending on the size and structure of your organization, some may have more internal weight and priority than others.

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How Public Speaking Skills Can Help You Run Your Nonprofit

Achieve

Many experts recommend grabbing a pen and paper to sketch out your presentation’s format and structure. After choosing your presentation’s structure, you can design your visual elements and brand your presentation with your nonprofit’s logo, colors, and fonts. . Design appealing visual elements.

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4 proven strategies to increase revenue at your association

Nimble AMS

Use videos, charts, games, slide decks, checklists, and interviews within your training courses to engage members and keep them coming back for more. . Your association already has a set membership structure relevant to your members’ needs. Do so, by adding several types of content to your learning management system (LMS).

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Video Storytelling Made Easy with Adobe Spark

Tech Soup

Establish your goals up front so that each moment or slide ladders up to the goal. Clicking the big plus button on the web or in the iOS app will open a slide-based editor. We suggest storyboarding out your video story within the app by selecting one of the pre-loaded story structures. Add Media to the Slides.

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