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Why You Shouldn’t Freak Out about Videoconferencing
The March 13, 2020, Mashable article "Zoom is a work-from-home privacy disaster waiting to happen" may have left you feeling a little icky about being suddenly thrust into the world of working-from-home. Phrases like "privacy minefield," "privacy disaster," and the...
Top 100 Books for Freelance Writers – 2020 Update!
Originally created in honor of Freelance Writers Appreciation Week 2009, here is a list of my top 100 books for freelance writers, updated for 2020. This is by no means an exhaustive list of all the books out there for freelancers (despite how exhausting it may or may...
I See White People: Options for More Diverse Stock Photography
Do you ever try to find relevant stock photography for your presentation or concept and find yourself giving up, saying, "Not another white dude pointing at a dry-erase board" or "Not ANOTHER pair of white hands on a computer keyboard" or "That skinny white lady's...
Learn More about Webinars and Virtual Training: Recommended Reading List
Want to learn more about planning, designing, and executing virtual events? Check out some of the articles below from outside sources. The Role of the Producer Virtual Classroom Tips: The Instructional Producer 5 Virtual Classroom Hacks for Facilitators, Designers,...
Developing Effective Presentation Slides: Tips for In-Person and Online Presentations
“Slides are slides. Documents are documents. They aren’t the same thing. Attempts to merge them result in what I call the ‘slideument,’” says Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen. He’s referring here to dense, text-heavy presentation slides. For best results,...
Tips for Setting Up your Physical Space for a Webinar
Must-Know Guidelines for Webinar Presenters If you'll be on camera at any point during your webinar or training, the appearance of your physical space is a critical part of your on-screen image. Your producer will evaluate your physical space during preparation...
Backups for My Backups – Snowmageddon, Florida Weather, and Webinar Production
For the last 5 hours I have had four computer monitors including a laptop, plus two landline phones, two cell phones, and an iPad running to make sure my current webinar does not go down if I lose power or internet. Thanks, #snowmageddon.
Is It Really Possible to Make Email Less Painful?
As I write this post, there are 64 emails sitting in my work inbox, of which nine are unread. I’m sure some of you are laughing right now: “Sixty-four emails? Honey, I’ve got over 2,000. Cry me a river.” Don’t hate. It’s been a slow day. And I ditched over a hundred...
How Do You Stay Productive Working from Home?
I started working part-time from home in 2003 and full-time from home in 2006. Although I've been someone else's employee for the last 5 years of that, I still use all of the same techniques for staying focused and productive as an employee that I used as a...
My Dirty Little Office Secret
My name is Kristen King, and I am a piler. (I'm also a stuff-it-where-I-can't-see-it-er, but that's another post.) Back in 2008, I posted about this um, piling quirk of mine on the now-defunct Biz Chicks Rule, where I confessed to having a "File Box of Doom" that I...
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