The textrovert effect & weapons of mass distraction
Let's Unmute The Audience🎙️. Down with boring, one-way presentations 😡
In this newsletter:
AI Summaries: Order from the chat chaos
Textroverts: How to leverage textroverts to boost engagement
Mass distraction: Use in-context engagement to fight distractions
Audiences unmuted: Join our livestream turning engagement theory into action
Certified: Become a human engagement specialist
Did you know?
This week we’d love to know if knew that you could summarize the chat responses in real-time during your live session using the AI summary option?
If you answered ‘No’ then check out this post in our community.
Leveraging the textrovert effect to boost engagement
Most virtual training sessions treat the chat window as a sidebar. A place for "got it" and the occasional link. The Textrovert Effect is the discovery that it can be something else entirely: the most powerful participation channel in the room.
Join Lux in this free session hosted by Training Magazine and learn how to:
Understand the Textrovert Effect and design sessions where everyone contributes
Build a framework for when, how, and what to ask in the chat
Use AI to surface and respond to participant insight in real time
Transform your Zoom or Teams chat from a logistics channel into the
Weapons of mass distraction
Every distance learning educator wants the same thing: a room where every learner is present, participating, and in sync. But we've accidentally built an arsenal that destroys it. Every time we send learners to a polling app, a reaction tool, or a Q&A platform, we tell them to pick up their phones. And the phone is the original weapon of mass distraction.
Join Lux for this free webinar hosted by the US Distance Learning Association where you’ll learn what in-context engagement looks like when it lives inside the session instead of fragmenting out of it
LIVE: Unmuting the audience
On June 1st (that’s Monday), a group of virtual presentation experts will be going live to talk StreamAlive, virtual presenting, and presentation tech.
Join Lux, Said, Neil, and Martin as they show you what it takes to put on an interesting, engaging, and ad-libbed live stream.
It’s the live show where video and tech professionals stop theorising about audience engagement and do it in real time.
12 noon EST | 4pm GMT | 9:30pm IST
Join the community discussion
StreamAlive has a community where you can ask questions and get best practice advice on running your virtual sessions. Here are some discussions to get you started.
We’d love to welcome you to the community and hear about the virtual sessions that you run.
Get your human engagement specialist certificate
Well done to everyone who has completed their Human Engagement Specialist certificate so far!
If you missed it…
We’ve signed up with Certifier.com to issue Human Engagement Specialist certificates based on a 15-minute training session with StreamAlive.
You get a unique page that you can use to showcase your credentials.
And you can even add it to your LinkedIn profile like I’ve done below.
What you get
✓ 15-minute live setup session with our team - we'll show you exactly how to run StreamAlive in your next training
✓ The one question that makes audiences engage (we've tested it on 200+ sessions)
✓ Certified Human Engagement Specialist credential you can add to your LinkedIn
How to get your certificate?
We’ve got 8 slots available this month for you to get your certificate. All you need to do is book your 15-minute call with us.
The best sessions can 10x your engagement. The top 5% of StreamAlive users are the ones who spent at least 15 minutes speaking to one of us.
Catch us on our social pages
If you haven’t already, check out our social media pages to stay updated on our quirky takes on the latest social media trends and the occasional piece of engagement-related advice.
All the best,
Peter and the StreamAlive team
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