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When presenting in an iLinc session, you are provided with many different tools that you can use to deliver your content. These range from PowerBoards, White Boards, WebSync, Polling Questions, and of course the most versatile option – Sharing. Whenever you are looking to present content that doesn’t seem to fit into the other options, Sharing is the tool you should turn to! Whether you are looking to walk your students through a Course Syllabus PDF or you’re demonstrating your own software program to a prospect, the iLinc Sharing tool is the tool that will get the job done for you.

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Businesses today need to maximize effectiveness and expand their reach while decreasing costs. Add this to the enormous pressure to “be green,” and you can see that companies today have a lot on their plates! It’s no wonder that webinars and online events are becoming the most popular way to reach the largest amount of people at the lowest cost—to businesses and to the environment.

On March 18, iLinc is hosting its first-ever virtual conference called iG.R.E.E.N. Over the course of one day, there will be over 10 dynamic sessions on virtual training, sales & marketing, green initiatives and online collaboration presented by top industry experts. Everyone who attends will gain best practices for better online collaboration and be empowered to save green and be green.

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How much preparation do you put into your online sessions? For webinars or virtual classes where you are presenting a specific topic or subject to a large audience, you probably do a prep session or 2 to get your ideas down, your timing worked out, and your slides finalized.

But what about other less formal, ad-hoc online sessions?

For any type of online session, establishing best practices for development and delivery of your content is important if you want to keep your session on track with your agenda, deliver valuable information, and meet the expectations of your audience. Additionally, bringing some interactivity and “edu-tainment” to your delivery helps your audience to stay engaged and interested in your subject matter.

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I know I blogged on this a few weeks ago (Taking the Classroom Virtual) but a blog post by Ken Molay yesterday prompted me to revisit this subject…

There are many ways to train and transfer knowledge to people within your organization. There are many companies that still thrive on traditional brick-and-mortar classrooms for continuing education of business professionals, as well as higher education. And there are many good reasons to attend a class with a live instructor at the front of the room that can see you.

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With the July 4th holiday last week, I missed posting another entry into my weekly series of postings… I hope today’s makes up for the absense.

As a session leader, I’m constantly trying to understand if the people attending my session are paying attention to my presentation. In a quick Google search to see if others are struggling with this, I found a few papers and articles, including an article from last summer’s edition of the Internet Computing magazine and a paper from 2002 discussing if online students are actually learning.

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