Live Webinar: How to Prepare Your Speakers for Hybrid Meeting Success

MADISON, Wis. - Date 09, 2010 - Join Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, for a live webinar with Midori Connolly, an expert in meeting technology, hybrid meetings and adult education.

WHEN: Tuesday, December 14, 1:00 - 1:30 pm CST (convert to your time zone)
WHERE: To register for this complimentary webinar, visit http://sofo.com/d27a8

There's lots of speaker training out there, and tons of resources for planning a great meeting. But when you host a hybrid meeting, how are you as the event professional going to prepare your speakers to be successful in a new, blended environment?

To date, there hasn't been a ton of guidance to help position them to do their best in front of not one, but two live audiences - the one onsite and the one online. That is, until now.

Midori knows what it takes to be a great speaker in the traditional conference presentation, and how to translate those skills to connect with a remote audience. In this webinar, she'll share tactical gems for speaker preparation and answer your questions live, including:

• What type of speaker training you need to do ahead of time
• How you can set up your meeting room to ensure speaker success online
• Which tech tools - like interactive polls - work best in different types of presentation formats - like panels or keynotes
• Who makes for a great tech moderator, and how should they interact with your speakers before, during and after the speech
• Plus examples of successful and not-so-successful approaches to hybrid event speaking

Presenter:
Midori Connolly is CEO and Chief AVGirl at Pulse Staging and Events. Pulse is best known for producing the industry's first set of guidelines for sustainable AudioVisual Staging - becoming the solid industry expert on the topic of green AV for live events. She is a Platinum Speaker for MPI, Director on the Green Meetings Industry Council International Board of Directors and represented the Rental and Staging industry for InfoComm International's first-ever Green AV Task Force. She's an expert at hybrid meeting production and devoted to making AV technology more human, approachable and sustainable.

Moderator:
Erica St. Angel, Vice President of Marketing for Sonic Foundry