Just finished listening to the excellent Make learning a team sport In Before The Lock podcast episode where Erica Kuhl and Brian Oblinger talk about the intersection of learning and community in companies. They make some excellent points in this episode: Community and Learning Departments should work as close together as possible and report to the same executive! Community and …
Flip Your Webinar
You may have heard of the Flipped Classroom: Let’s Flip the Webinar as well: Record your content and share it with your audience in advance. Nudge them to post questions ahead of time as well. Ideally, everyone can comment too, starting the conversation even before the webinar. The webinar is a Q&A live stream focusing on answering all questions! Couple …
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Participants: Jazz Up Your Next Online Event!
We all love to complain about the current state of the art of online events? Talking heads droning on, not engaging enough, making you feel small, your opinion unimportant, it often feels like a late-night infomercial. Not that we are really missing being stuck in the middle of a keynote among 1000s of conference participants, where the speaker on the …
Flip Your Webinar to be a Collective Solution Development Session
Webinar fatigue is real. It is frustrating to listen to talking heads pontificating from our screens trying to sell us something. The lack of engagement makes you feel small; a faceless participant without a voice. Doc Searls always wanted to flip the keynote stage, as he felt there were so many interesting voices and experiences in the room, that can’t …
Best in Class Enterprise Community: Salesforce Trailblazers
At last year’s CMX Summit Erica Kuhl’s Building Community is Smart Business presentation was my favorite. She is the former VP of Community at Salesforce and was responsible for the meteoric rise of their Trailblazer community. I loved it because she delivered one cold hard community impact measure after the other. In summary, this is the impact the Trailblazer community has on Salesforce and its customers: …
Seamless Online Community & Face 2 Face Event Integration
One of the most powerful ways to engage your community is to get them together face to face. It builds trust and a feeling of belonging. We are social animals, once you shook someone’s hand, your engagement with that person online is on a totally different level. One year coming back from SAP TechEd, I bumped into Matthias Zeller at …
Engage The Bay 2016 Day One Conference Notes [Storify]
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