Webcast Wednesday

re: Webcast Wednesday

MobileDevGroup — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:17:07 GMT

Grab a headset for your phone (someone in marketing is bound to have one :). Then you don't have to hold the handset up to your face the whole time!

Neil

re: Webcast Wednesday

glengordon — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:44:59 GMT

Robert, you've latched onto the key to making webcasts succesful. You are comfortable with how to tap into your audience during live presentations, you just need to adapt to a different delivery vehicle. Here are some tips that have helped me (I do about 30 webcasts a year):

Try not to have too much "dead air". When you are live, people can watch your non-verbal communication on stage. Try to talk through much of what you are doing, as well as what you are thinking.

Use a polling slide to ascertain people's experience level up front, and to determine how well they are grasping the concepts at key points in the webcast.

Encourage attendees to ask questions or give you feedback via their live meeting consoles. Check this question log after each demo.

Here is my best tip though: Consider having someone familiar with the material serve as Q&A moderator on the webcast. They can monitor the question queue, answer questions, and raise the interesting questions up so you can discuss them live. They can also add color commentary. Having multiple voices on the webcast really increases the attendees' enjoyment factor.

Good luck!

-Glen

re: Webcast Wednesday

John Cody — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:26:00 GMT

Hi Robert,

That was a great case!

Being that .NET cf apps require a minimum of 2MB of RAM to run, they are not very suitable for always-resident applications. And the RunAppatDateTime and RunAppatEvent API's of WinCE 3/4 had very limited events that my program could use to launch itself.

So, I was real happy to see the flexibility of not only being notified of a huge number of events, but that it will also launch my app if it's not loaded :)

Great job to you and the mobile dev team!

Microsoft.Windows.Mobile

Daniel Moth — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:21:18 GMT

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