Interviews, tips and tricks to help you make the most of free virtual meeting tools and other social media to connect with your people when you can't be face-to-face.
In this rowdy debriefing conversation following the final session of the Spring Virtual Meeting Camp, Cynthia Winton-Henry and Tom Carroll (of EvolutionaryLearning.com) and I explore some of the issues that come up when human beings try to squeeze ourselves into virtual meeting rooms. It's hard for all of us, especially in the beginning part of our transition into virtual meetings, not to allow the tools to worsen the mind/body/spirit split that western education systems have trained into us. ...
Experienced trainers, coaches and consultants have been achieving good results using telephone conferencing and teleseminars for close to a decade. Routines are getting more and more comfortable and service providers proliferating. But there's only so much we can accomplish with people at a distance using just sound. New multi-media virtual meeting tools make it possible for us to connect with each other at a distance using visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities - all at the same time. C...
Using sound and text and visual images, simultaneously with other people - at a distance - can be a bit overwhelming for people using web meeting tools for the first time. It can be a big surprise to be not only permitted - but expected - to do more than sit passively and observe others' slideshows or software demos. Do I track the continuous flow in the public text chat, start up a private text chat with someone I know, draw or write on the whiteboard or the presenters' slides, or just use th...
Meri Aaron Walker, "The Virtual Meeting Coach," Tom Carroll, and Julie Lockhart debrief around Julie's recent Madhatters Tea Party. Julie is an experienced classroom teacher and meeting facilitator with twenty plus years in a traditional higher education setting. Her first foray into hosting her own "outside the academy," live, fully interactive, online meeting illuminated a host of issues for her. Take a listen:
Meri Aaron Walker, "The Virtual Meeting Coach," and founder of Virtual Meeting Startup.com, offers a group coaching program called "The Madhatters Tea Party" where experienced teachers, trainers, coaches and consultants are immersed in new language, culture and thinking routines required to host engaging, fully interactive virtual meetings. In this video chat, Meri talks with Tom Carroll, of EvolutionaryLearning.com, and Gretchen Wegner, of MuseCubes.com, about their experience stepping "throu...
Go to VirtualMeetingStartup.com right now and join "The Madhatters Tea Party" if you're looking for support in transitioning some of your key services from face-to-face settings to FREE, live, fully interactive multimedia virtual meeting rooms. VirtualMeetingStartup.com offers group coaching programs that help proven trainers, coaches, and consultants learn to use FREE virtual meeting tools. Become a "Madhatter" yourself or join the next 6-Week Virtual Meeting Camp to watch and learn from the ...
Meri Aaron Walker, "The Virtual Meeting Coach," and founder of http://VirtualMeetingStartup.com, offers a group coaching program called "The Madhatters Tea Party" where experienced teachers, trainers, coaches and consultants are immersed in new language, culture and thinking routines required to host engaging, fully interactive virtual meetings.In this video chat, Meri talks with Tom Carroll, of EvolutionaryLearning.com, about his experience stepping "through the looking glass" into the first ...
105: Dirty Little Secrets About Decision Making and Virtual Meetings This short, powerful conversation between Meri Aaron Walker, "The Virtual Meeting Coach," and Sharon Drew Morgen, Change-Guru-and-Sales-Maven-Extraordinaire, is packed with specific things you can do right now to make your virtual meetings far more effective than you ever dreamed possible. Sharon Drew Morgen is a best-selling author and expert on cutting through confusion when you're helping people make changes. From Sharon D...
Matt Sweet and Rene Fabre work together at Ticor Title. Their job is helping Realtors and title people connect with new audiences and market effectively in this wild new economy.Meri Aaron Walker, aka "The Virtual Meeting Coach" interviews Matt and Rene about how they're navigating the changed economy, what kinds of problems social media solves for them, and how they're making it happen. This segment is Part 4 of a 4-Part conversation about social media and online reputation management recorde...
Matt Sweet and Rene Fabre work together at Ticor Title. Their job is helping Realtors and title people connect with new audiences and market effectively in this wild new economy.Meri Aaron Walker, aka "The Virtual Meeting Coach" interviews Matt and Rene about how they're navigating the changed economy, what kinds of problems social media solves for them, and how they're making it happen. This segment is Part 3 of a 4-Part Series recorded inside vYew, a free virtual meeting room that Meri, Matt...
