Is it wrong to be nervous when speaking via video? Not at all -- as long as it’s not a paralyzing fear. Butterflies can actually up your game. Speaking via...
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When I first started teaching and then writing about how to communicate through the camera, my vision was rather narrow: I wanted to teach people how to handle presenting on...
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As a news anchor, I would wear an earpiece called an IFB, which allows the producer or the director to talk to you while you’re anchoring the news. So I...
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Presenting in front of a camera requires a totally different skill set than the one you use when you present to an audience you can see. And with video being...
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When doing any sort of video communication, you want to try to mimic face-to-face interaction. To create that effect, you need to make sure your camera is sitting eye level....
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Summer is here, and we’re kicking it off with a video series to help you feel more comfortable and confident speaking on camera or through virtual video tools. We live...
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An author friend of mine told me he wrote his entire book by speaking it into a dictation application on his computer. He claimed it made the process much faster...
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So you’ve been asked to create a short video and the script writing has been left up to you. If you’re tempted to do a cut and paste of a...
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Go into any TV newsroom and, chances are, you’ll see a bunch of people talking to themselves. No, they haven’t lost their minds, at least most of the time. What...
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When I worked in television news, I had the pleasure of frequently interviewing an entertaining and eloquent mayor named Buddy Cianci. Mayor Cianci went about running the city of Providence,...
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