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Our goal is to make a difference in how your people present in a virtual setting. Look at these comments from satisfied customers:*

”Thank you for opening up my eyes and creativity and teaching me how to make my presentations more interactive, more engaging and being able to get my points across more effectively than what I was doing before. This will help me tremendously not only during Webex presentations but also face to face presentations.”

– N. Trippie

”My audience is going to feel like I'm in the room with them!”

”I just want to say that this is the best presentation class I have attended -- most useful and will apply skills learned immediately.”

”I will use everything that I learned and put it into practice immediately. I'm in the process of redoing my virtual presentations in this format.”

”BTW, I love your class, and it was been one of the most useful classes I’ve taken in years.”

”I KNOW how to interact with my remote audience AND they will know how to interact with me.”

”I intend to be using this technique for one) customer presentations, two) project management meetings, three) educate my partners, four) internal meetings and discussions.”

”Thank you for opening my eyes and creativity and teaching me how to make my presentations more interactive, more engaging and being able to get my points across more effectively than what I was doing before. This will help me tremendously not only during WebEx presentations, but also face-to-face presentations.”

”This is a much more effective solution than what we are doing now.”

”You opened my eyes to a new way of thinking.”

*these comments were submitted by attendees at the conclusion of the WOW ePresentations! webinar. Because of company policies in the Fortune 500 companies that we serve, we are unable to furnish names and companies on the website.

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Resources

Free resources to help you improve your virtual communication

Select your main catergory:

  1. Bridge the Distance Newsletter Article Archive
  2. Major media articles quoting Jaclyn Kostner (free)
  3. On-Demand Webinars (free)
  4. Meetings Around the World (Kostner’s work with Microsoft, Verizon Business, and Frost & Sullivan in this cutting edge research on the impact of collaboration on results)
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1. Bridge the Distance Newsletter Article Archive

2. Major media articles quoting Jaclyn Kostner, Ph.D.

Dr. Jaclyn Kostner has appeared multiple times in major media as an expert on the human side of communicating in a virtual environment. Here are a sampling of those articles that you can view for free by clicking on the line.

  • Fortune. Real Time Meetings:  Doing Business in a Changed World.
  • The Wall Street Journal. Managers Aren’t Always Able to Get The Right Message Across With E-Mail. Written by Alex Markels, Staff reporter for the WSJ.
  • The Wall Street Journal. Managers Aren’t Always Able to Get the Right Message Across with E-Mail. (Archived. No longer free)
  • Newsweek.  Eyeball to Eyeball, at A Distance.
  • Time. Video Traveler.
  • Time. In Control, 10 Time Zones Away.
  • FastCompany. When There's No Time for Face Time.
  • CIO Magazine.  Team Heat.
  • CIO Magazine. The Virtual Water Cooler:  An Interview with Jaclyn Kostner (Archived. No longer free).
  • USA TODAY. Technology Helps People Keep Tasks In-House. (Archived. No longer free).
  • Kiplinger. Take a Meeting on Your PC. (Archived. No longer free).
  • 3M Meeting Network. Leading a Distributed Team. (Site no longer exists).
  • ComputerWorld. What to Tell Your Remote Boss.
  • ISCT (Germany). Virtuelle Teamarbeit - Erfolgsfaktor der Zukunft. 
  • SDA Asia. Collaboration Is a Key Driver of Business Performance Around the World: Study.
  • Collaborationsstudie. Web 2.0 schafft Wettbewerbsvorteile.
  • Biz Journals. Managing virtual employees requires new manager skills.
  • PMThink. Telecommuting Trend Forces Changes in Project Management.
  • IVCI. Video Conferencing Business Soars as Companies Cut Travel; Some Travel Cuts Are Permanent.
  • JSONLINE. Teleconferencing offers an alternative to costly travel.
  • Contact Professional. Successfully Leading in Today’s Virtual Environment.
  • effectivemeetings.com. Virtual Work Trends.
  • linezine.com. Bionic Teamwork to Extend the Leader’s Touch.
  • PDMA. The Discipline of Teams: A Mindbook-Workbook for Delivering Small Group Performance.
  • Personnel Today.com. Remote teams: How to successfully manage remote teams.

3. On-Demand webinars (free)

It’s always best to attend webinars live. Jaclyn Kostner always makes them engaging and interactive. In case you missed these, however, here is a free on-demand recording that will give you the content that will be helpful. Just click the title, and you’ll be transported to the recording.

  1. Ca$hing In on Webinars
    If you think webinars and web conference technology are only for big businesses, think again. For small businesses, they're the most powerful way on the planet to skyrocket opportunities, your network, your visibility, and your relationship with prospects, customers, employees, and contractors--both across town and around the world. In this information-packed, thought-provoking webinar, you'll know how to break out of the bricks and mortar approach to your business. You'll discover how to replace it with Dr. Kostner's proven model, designed shortcut your road to success in a radically-changed business marketplace. Through engaging stories of struggling versus successful small businesses, you'll learn how to use webinars to open opportunities beyond your wildest dreams.
  2. Global Gold: Keys to a High Performance Virtual Organization
    This on-demand webinar highlights the findings of the Meetings Around the World study sponsored by Verizon Business, Microsoft, Frost&Sullivan in 2006. Its content is essential or every leader that wants to increase results. Collaboration Quality is the leading drive of performance, impacting results by 36%.
  3. Secrets of Highly Effective Sales Teams
    What do the world's most successful virtual sales organizations do to achieve record-setting success? Join this information-packed webinar by eCommunication guru, Dr. Jaclyn Kostner to learn the key factors that make a difference. This webinar is not about sales techniques nor technology. Rather it is about how to get your sales staff to communicate effectively and interactively with customers when they are NOT face to face.

4. Kostner as Spokesperson for Meetings Around the World: A Study on the Impact of Collaboration on Performance,by Verizon Business, Microsoft, and Frost & Sullivan

Jaclyn Kostner, Ph.D., was a research analyst and spokesperson for this cutting-edge global study by Frost & Sullivan, sponsored by Verizon Business and Microsoft.  This study showed that the better the collaboration, the better the results in global business.  In fact, collaboration is a leading driver of performance, impacting results by 36%.

  1. Verizon Business. New Research Reveals Collaboration Is a Key Driver of Business Performance Around the World.
  2. Meetings Around the World – Verizon Business, Microsoft, Frost & Sullivan
  3. Meetings Around the World White Paper
  4. Meetings Around the World – General

Jaclyn Kostner, Ph.D., was also spokesperson and analyst on the Meetings in America studies by MCI.

  1. Meetings in America V.  MCI Study Finds Business Travel Alternatives, Emergence of Web Conferencing and New E-Leadership Spur Trend Toward Virtual Collaboration
  2. Meetings in America III.  Virtual Work Emerges as a Prominent Trend in the American Workforce
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