This document provides 10 tips for becoming a better virtual presenter. The tips include preparing your visual and audio setup by ensuring good lighting and sound, keeping presentations concise by focusing on 3 key points, using stories and examples to engage audiences, maintaining eye contact with the camera, breaking up monologues with interactive elements, and focusing more on concise explanations than dense text or graphics. The overall message is that virtual presentations require adapting techniques like location, audiovisual quality, engagement, and content delivery to be effective for online audiences.

1. Ten tips to
become a better virtual presenter
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 Avoid distracting your audience by taking notice of your surroundings and be prepared before you
go live.
 Get up if you can, because our voices naturally perform better when we’re in a standing position.
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Tip 1 The visual setting matters

3. Sensitivity: Internal
 Your voice should be loud and clear. Make sure any other potential sound sources are turned off or
removed.
 It’s about being prepared, so before setting up your equipment take a moment to listen to your
surroundings.
Tip 2 The sound of silence
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4. Sensitivity: Internal
• Turn your camera on before the presentation to do a check up on the light settings before you go live.
• Dim or turn off any light sources that interfere, and if possible, have a bright, soft light coming from behind
the camera to light up your face.
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Tip 3 Let there be light – or perhaps not?

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 Make sure the camera lens is directed straight towards you.
 Get up if you can, because our voices naturally perform better when we’re in a standing position.
Tip 4 No nostrils, please
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 Challenge yourself to limit the time of your presentation and engagingly stick to the point.
 Stick to a presentation structure in which you aim to convey a maximum of three keys points.
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Tip 5 Keep it short and sweet

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 Stories are far more memorable than facts. A well-told story can move the audience
 Target your messages to your specific audience segment, and spice up your presentation with short,
relevant anecdotes and stories along the way.
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Tip 6 You’re never too old for a story

8. Sensitivity: Internal
 Digital presentations can feel cold and distant, especially if the presenter is looking down, to the side
or reading.
 The secret to keeping an audience captive is to look up, directly into the camera, as if you’re talking
to each one of them individually.
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Tip 7 Eye contact is still important

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 Run a short activity after 30 minutes asking people to reflect on a question and then share their
answers with the online group.
 Alternatively, alert someone in advance that you will be engaging with them during the presentation
to spice things up with a two-way dialogue.
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Tip 8 Break up the monologue

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 Could you instead ask someone to interview you live on camera? Could you make a game out of it,
using Kahoot! for instance?
 There are so many tools out there to help you such as Miro, which gives you virtual whiteboard
functionality. Maybe you can draw your way through your next digital presentation?
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Tip 9 Does your presentation have to be a presentation?

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 Tell us more in your digital presentation and show us far less.
 Use colourful and human images, short sentences and bullet points, or even very simple graphs, but
skip the complex paragraphs and graphics.
Tip 10 More pictures, less text
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12. Good luck with your next presentation!
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