Even if the pandemic is finally over, and even if it is the last pandemic we will ever experience and both of those seem pretty optimistic it is still worthwhile to study and to.
Connect with the audience through the camera lens
Build skill with practice and review
Cultivate a deliberate, transparent presentation style
Know when and when not to use visual aids
Give your best effort to judges and juries alike
For advice on technical considerations, see our prior post
Look at the Camera, Not the Monitor
Connecting with an audience online requires the speaker to look directly at the camera and to resist the temptation to look at the audience on the computer screen.
“The only way to make eye contact is to physically look at that camera,” Carol Sowers, a communications consultant and former broadcaster from New York, N.Y., said. “But it is the hardest thing to do.”