How to Get Online Speaking Right, from Meetings to Classrooms to Job Interviews to Recordings: Part One, HELP Yourself
by Steven S. Vrooman There's a an awful lot of working from home via video right now, and many of us are muddling through. But what should we aim for in terms of best practices? Here are some tips based on mistakes I am seeing people make or am hearing about in my network of colleagues and former students. These tips apply to all forms of electronic speaking, from formal roles like presentations or job interviews or leading a meeting or lecturing to a class, to more informal ones like being in a meeting or class. Different mediated formats will affect this advice, and I have tried to clarify that when it is relevant for things like Zoom or Google Hangouts or Skype versus social media live versus recorded presentations. I have been teaching online and studying online interactions since before video was possible, and I have done a fairly constant stream of live and recorded presentations to various professional groups and corporations over the years in addition to recorded me
