I wish IBM would practice giving on-line presentations
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I while back I blogged about how to give effective Sametime Presentations. I just sat through a presentation given on Sametime Advanced, it was being given using Sametime Unyte and should be IBMs opportunity to highlight how great their technology works in this scenario. sadly it didn't, sadly Sametime Unyte failed in a number of ways, screen sharing froze, some QA questions were lost, hhm it kind of felt like a traditional Sametime meeting.
Without talking about the quality or content of the presentation, here are some more suggestions for IBMers who are doing presentations:
1. Unless you're going to demonstrate extra communities in your Sametime demo remove them.
2. Unless you're going to demonstrate them, and explain they are internal only IBM plugins, remove them, they make it unclear what is standard Sametime and which is custom IBM stuff.
3. IBMers should never be seen in public using Microsoft Office, unless the demo is to show Office integration. If Lotus Symphony is so great, no IBMer should be seen not using it. If you won't use it, why would I?
4. If you're doing a demo with the aid of other IBMers, tell them not to send animated emoticons when they send you text, they look cute, but they kill the performance of the screenshare as the screen is consulting updating the emoticon animation.
5. If you're showing persistent chat rooms, make them look useful. Have meaningful content in the history, and have more than two people in there. Make it look like a vibrant, active, chat room.
I while back I blogged about how to give effective Sametime Presentations. I just sat through a presentation given on Sametime Advanced, it was being given using Sametime Unyte and should be IBMs opportunity to highlight how great their technology works in this scenario. sadly it didn't, sadly Sametime Unyte failed in a number of ways, screen sharing froze, some QA questions were lost, hhm it kind of felt like a traditional Sametime meeting.
Without talking about the quality or content of the presentation, here are some more suggestions for IBMers who are doing presentations:
1. Unless you're going to demonstrate extra communities in your Sametime demo remove them.
2. Unless you're going to demonstrate them, and explain they are internal only IBM plugins, remove them, they make it unclear what is standard Sametime and which is custom IBM stuff.
3. IBMers should never be seen in public using Microsoft Office, unless the demo is to show Office integration. If Lotus Symphony is so great, no IBMer should be seen not using it. If you won't use it, why would I?
4. If you're doing a demo with the aid of other IBMers, tell them not to send animated emoticons when they send you text, they look cute, but they kill the performance of the screenshare as the screen is consulting updating the emoticon animation.
5. If you're showing persistent chat rooms, make them look useful. Have meaningful content in the history, and have more than two people in there. Make it look like a vibrant, active, chat room.
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Posted by Tim At 12:20:47 PM On 05/02/2008 | - Website - |
One other, critical tip if you are hosting a webcast: Always have a second machine dialed in to the webcast so you can see what the audience is seeing.
Even if you don't have technical problems, you need to know how long to wait for screen redraws (hint: you cannot click quickly through dialogs!!).
Posted by Handly Cameron At 02:53:44 PM On 05/02/2008 | - Website - |
You speak from my heart and read my mind ... I was not in that specific presentation but I have been in similar ones on the past ... let's make a primer for the IBMers and send it to them!
Posted by Victor At 12:28:12 PM On 05/05/2008 | - Website - |