Posted by Kevin Micalizzi on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 @ 04:49 AM
Another Strategy Roundtable with Sramana Mita. In this webinar, Sramana consults with entrepreneurs on pitches ranging from online video, to time tracking software, to re-training job seekers to find the right green jobs, to a lingerie line for the Indian markets.
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Posted by Kevin Micalizzi on Fri, Mar 20, 2009 @ 08:12 AM
Last week I had a great chat with Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer at SocialFish. Maddie and I connected through Twitter. They were looking at using Dimdim for their webinars and I was interested in understanding what they were doing.
A few minutes into our conversation they mentioned that they had attended a Featured Meeting: Dimdim Live Demo I hosted a few weeks ago. I had departed the slide deck and instead addressed questions as they came up in the public chat. Feedback on that session varied widely, some felt it was a great webinar because it was unstructured and "real", while at least one person felt it was "unprofessional."
Maddie and Lindy had great feedback for me -- I needed a "buddy." If I had used the buddy system, even an unstructured meeting like this would have had a better flow. Going without the structured slide deck, it was pretty easy to follow the public chat and address the questions being asked. At one point it "went native" and chat messages were scrolling by faster than I could read them. As it was just me running the meeting, I had to frequently pause to scroll back in the chat to make sure I wasn't missing questions.
It's a good idea to have someone (a "buddy") help with your webinar by managing the chat, filtering questions, and feeding the best questions to the presenter (often via private chat.) Taking this approach frees you as presenter to concentrate on the presentation and reduces the chances of interesting or important questions being missed in the chat.
That was one meeting where I could have used a "buddy". Thanks for the reminder Maddie and Lindy!
-k
Kevin Micalizzi, Community Manager
Dimdim Web Conferencing
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Posted by Kevin Micalizzi on Mon, Mar 16, 2009 @ 08:27 PM
We had another great Strategy Roundtable webinar with Sramana Mitra on March 11, 2009. Sramana continued her work with entrepreneurs, helping them refine their pitch and improve their business ideas.
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Sramana Mitra is an entrepreneur, strategy consultant, and author of Entrepreneur Journeys. Enjoy this recording and consider joining us live for Strategy Roundtable with Sramana Mitra|Mar 25, 2009.
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Kevin Micalizzi, Community Manager
Dimdim Web Conferencing
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twitter: @dimdim
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Posted by Kevin Micalizzi on Mon, Mar 02, 2009 @ 01:49 PM
Friday, Feb. 20th was the first Social Media Breakfast for NH. When I heard that Leslie Poston of UptownUncorked was organizing it, I wanted to be a part of it. Leslie's theme: "building bridges." Her mission: To make Social Media Breakfast NH available to everyone. With that theme and Dimdim's mission to let everyone "meet freely", it seemed a natural fit. Leslie and I agreed to do a live cast for those who couldn't be there in person. The event sold out two weeks early and had a significant waiting list.
Friday morning we woke to find more snow than originally predicted. The roads were messy and I thought turnout would be low. I was wrong. We almost reached capacity in the room with another 30 people joining via Dimdim.
Here is the Dimdim recording (approx 1 hr):
Also see Leslie Poston's Social Media Breakfast NH recap.
Thanks!
-k
Kevin Micalizzi, Community Manager
Dimdim Web Conferencing
e: kevin@dimdim.com
twitter: @dimdim
facebook: dimdim.com/facebook