Producer documents to assist in delivery

When I work as a producer for Lightbulb Moment I always have some documents to help assist me whilst live and in the flow.

1. Producer document
2. Common questions document

Producer document

I always have this open on my second screen or if I only have o

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Online apps for games

I am converting a real game I used to play with trainers and facilitators into an online version but need two tools:

• A score board for up to 4 teams
• A customisable spinner to hep move their tokens around the board

Anybody used any (ad free) tools like t

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What causes anxiety live online?

Really interesting report from PowerPoint presentation design agency Buffalo 7, about what causes anxiety live online. 

They focused on what they call "Zoom Anxiety" and what caused it, thought it can be easily applied to any video meeting tool and b

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2 little moments with Zoom to watch out for....

1 - is this webinar started, or not?
I started a webinar this morning on my PC... but my backup co-host login (connected by 4G hotspot from my phone, running in the zoom android app on a tablet) thought the webinar was still in practice mode and want

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The state of virtual training 2020 - Cindy's latest report

Cindy Huggett does a fabulous job every year asking people about how they use virtual training, and her latest research report has been released!

Highlights include that the most popular platform used by the 870 global responses was Zoom, no shock th

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Annotation tools (workaround) on MS Teams

HI Lightbulbers !

 

I need to try and run an activity asking people to annotate a slide.  MS Teams doesnt have this (to my knowledge!) and wondered if anyone has a nifty workaround?  I am pretty good at most MS Teams Hacks - but this one is escaping me

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Pre Workshop Instructions

Morning I will be starting a series of Virtual Workshops next month on MS Teams. I would like to send a pre event message to help with the etiquettes and expectations of the attendees. Can anybody advise on the best practise in this communication or

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Live online learning and Emerald Works data

Recently I've been able to partner with Emerald Works (formerly Towards Maturity) to use some of their data to look at virtual classrooms and webinars in a different way. 

Here's the article I wrote: https://emeraldworks.com/resources/blog/l-d-resear

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Ice breakers

HI I am looking for suggestions for some ice breaker for a large group of zoom attendees that do not know one another. We will be discussing mental health so it needs to be light. Intro and break ideas please or ones you have already found successful

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Marketing webinars infographic

Here's an infographic about using webinars for business to business marketing:

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/how-b2b-marketers-make-webinars-work-up-down-and-beyond-the-sales-funnel/581011/

 

Do you run marketing webinars? What works for you?

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Running an (un)conference live online

In New Zealand an organisation ran an unconference (where the agenda isn't pre-set and is built by the attendees on the day). They shared a great amount of their learning about the organisation, communication and technology.

There's a big PDF (with l

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