by Rosemary Ravinal | Apr 12, 2021 | Home Featured, Presentation Skills, Video Conferences, Zoom Score
Simple hand and arm gestures may be more effective than emoticons to improve engagement during Zoom meetings. Research from the University College London (UCL) in the UK shows that an intuitive set of hand signals can warm up the virtual meeting room and help...
by Rosemary Ravinal | Mar 29, 2021 | Video Conferences, Zoom Score
A week ago, I co-hosted a live Zoom webinar in honor of Women’s History Month. I practiced the speaker introductions without notes but changed course at the last minute. I chose to read from the teleprompter on my computer screen—with my reading glasses....
by Rosemary Ravinal | Mar 15, 2021 | Presentation Skills
Oprah is the queen of television interviews. We saw this on full display during the landmark televised chat with Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Volumes of commentary have resulted from some of the explosive answers given by the celebrity couple. Much of...
by Rosemary Ravinal | Mar 1, 2021 | Presentation Skills
The most common question in my inbox these days is how to grab and hold the attention of meeting participants. More often, the question is phrased: “How do I overcome Zoom fatigue in my organization?” My answer is: platform fatigue is not the problem. The...
by Rosemary Ravinal | Feb 15, 2021 | Video Conferences, Video Meeting Management, Zoom Score
When I invented the ZoomScore™ last year, the most important success factors when using Zoom for business were wardrobe, background, setting and video-on. People would ask me how to look good on camera, what to wear, and how to set up the shot....
