Trying to keep your audience awake? (we turned it into a game)

Let's Unmute The Audience🎙️. Down with boring, one-way presentations 😡

Hi there!

In this newsletter:

• Learn: Changing the way you do your next presentation

• Skill: Try to keep your audience awake!

• Tips: Last call to submit your presentation tips for our new book!

• Results: We asked you what your preferred presentation tool is

Let’s change the way you do your PowerPoint presentations

To learn how to create interactive PowerPoint slides with polls, word clouds, interactive maps, spinner wheels, and more, join our live workshops this week.

• Present on Zoom? Register here

• Present on Teams? Register here

We’ll explore how to turn static presentations into real-time, two-way conversations. Whether you’re leading a webinar, a client pitch, or an internal meeting, discover how to bring your audience into the story and keep them engaged from the very first slide.

💡 What You’ll Learn

​​🔹 How to make your slides interactive, without changing your workflow
🔹 Ways to involve your audience live, even with cameras off
🔹 Techniques to boost engagement inside your deck (not outside it)
🔹 How to turn passive viewers into active participants in real time

It’s happening Tuesday and Thursday

🗓️18th November (Zoom) & 20th November (Teams)
⌚11am EST | 4pm GMT | 9:30pm IST
🌍 On Zoom & Teams (Yes, presentations on Zoom can be fun!)

Can’t make it? Register now and we’ll send you the recording

Stop your audience falling asleep

We’ve built a new game.

It’s dedicated to the trainers and presenters who face daily challenges to keep their audiences engaged, involved, and attentive.

Don’t let the muted microphones and turned off cameras stop you!

Inspired by the arcade games of the 80s, you have to stop your audience from falling asleep.

To do that you have to collect unmuted microphones, switched on cameras, and find special StreamAlive Power Ups to boost your score.

As you collect more points you get promoted from Trainer in Training to Galactic Training Jedi.

Easter egg: If you hit a certain score, you can win some StreamAlive merch!

For the nerds 🤓 among you, we used Cursor to vibe code the game in Javascript, and our designer came up with the simple graphics.

Last Call! 50 tips to being a better virtual presenter

At the end of this month (November), we’re publishing a book on 50 tips to being a better virtual presenter.

We’ve had the who’s who of presenters, facilitators, educators, and live streamers submit their tips to help you become a better virtual presenter.

We’ve still got a few spaces left, so if you’ve got a tip that you’ve learned from all your virtual presenting experience, we’d love to include it in the book!

All submissions come with your name and mention of your company and/or LinkedIn profile.

This is the last call to submit your tip(s).

Your preferred presentation tool

Last week we asked you want your preferred presentation tool was.

Thank you to all 14 of you who voted 🤗

(want to vote? click here)

While not enough votes to be statistically significant, we were surprised to see Canva get an equal number of votes as PowerPoint!

Even more surprised to see Google Slides and Gamma with so few votes. Google Slides is my go to presentation tool, even though I have access to PowerPoint and Canva.

​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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