For the past 15 months, we have merged virtual meetings, conferences and get-togethers into every aspect of our lives. Now that it seems life is slowly returning to normal, virtual meetings are not going away. So before you panic when asked to give an online presentation, register for our May webinar, From Meh to Memorable! Create IMPACT in Your Virtual Presentations, May 20, 2021 at 7:00pm, by Beth Anne Ashley, founder of DemoNOW Consulting, and a 20-year veteran performing business and technical presentations for IT Management, Executives and End Users. Beth Anne empowers technical presenters to transform ordinary presentations into engaging customer experiences. Through hands-on educational training webinars and workshops, she helps organizations align business understanding with technical capabilities to improve their virtual presentation skills. Her key areas of focus include: product messaging, solution consulting, and customer relationship building. Her mission is to help you present your best self!

Beth Anne will discuss the art of delivering clear, concise, and compelling presentations, and it is a skill that only develops with practice. Discover innovative techniques to increase interaction with your virtual audience by incorporating the DemoIMPACT methodology into your next online presentation.

This session blends business understanding with technical capabilities to sharpen your virtual presentation skills. Learn proven methods to increase engagement with your online audience. Improve your ability to effectively communicate during webinars, client meetings and speaking engagements.

Key takeaways:
• Gain practical insights for engaging with a remote audience to create a lasting impact
• Enhance your personal strengths as a technical presenter
• Develop a more confident mindset as a virtual speaker

Don’t miss your opportunity to gain better insight into making a simple business presentation an audience experience. Registration is now open for this FREE webinar, but space is limited.

Learn more about Beth Anne’s company, DemoNOW Consulting.

Conduit 2021: Presenters, Moderators, and Topic Suggestions

Thanks for your interest in CONDUIT! This year, we’re having a virtual “unconference.” We will break out into rooms, and in each room there will either be a presentation or a discussion. At the beginning of the conference, attendees will sign up for the presentations and discussions they want to attend. That’s where you come in!

If you have ever been to Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida, you know of the free-fall ride, Twilight Zone’s The Tower of Terror. What attracts people to this ride? The “terror” of the unexpected? The view of the park when the top doors open before the ride drops? Or the realistic time warp you enter as soon as you come to the front door of the old Hollywood Tower Hotel. As guests stand in line, they walk through the eerie, neglected hotel gardens before entering an old, dusty and cobwebbed lobby. They are then escorted to the library where “lightning flashes outside the window and a black-and-white television comes to life where Rod Serling introduces the plot of today’s episode of The Twilight Zone. Afterwards, guests enter the dark boiler room to board their maintenance service elevators which serve as their ride vehicles.” As the elevator doors close, there is no turning back.

Guests may feel anxious, scared, even excited. Why? Because Disney Imagineers have placed them directly in an episode of The Twilight Zone. They are no longer watching a television show. They are IN a television show. This is the creative talent of Disney Imagineers. Guests are swooped into another timeframe, another world or another story. The experience comes to life with superb architecture, period paint colors, décor and artifacts. Guests are immediately transported through time. And this is just the waiting line. Does your technical communication do that?

Join us for our February webinar, February 25th at 7:00pm, Adding Disney Imagineering to Your Technical Communication Toolbox, presented by senior documentation and curriculum manager, Lou Prosperi. His webinar explores several practices and principles used by Walt Disney Imagineering in the design and construction of Disney parks and attractions, and how those practices and principles can be applied to technical communication and information development to help us effectively communicate with our audience.

Registration is now open and FREE! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, dream and create like a Disney Imagineer.

Ref: August 4, 2019. Savannah Sanders, tBlog, Everything You Need to Know About The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

UPDATED: Jan. 21, 2021

Unfortunately, we had to postpone our Open House. We hope to reschedule very soon. Please keep an eye on our website and social media for a new date. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you did not receive a postponement email after you registered, please contact our President, Jen Heller Meservey at President@stcpmc.org.

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In 2020, many organizations and companies had to close their doors for an undetermined amount of time due to COVID-19, only to reopen and close again. STC-PMC has had its challenges this year as well. We canceled some events and went virtual with others, but this has not diminished the opportunities we have been able to offer. We continue to provide opportunities to our network of experienced professionals and young tech communicators.

What are you missing? To find out, please join us Thursday, January 21st at 7:00pm for a virtual open house to explore the many advantages of membership: access job listings and member directories, register for certified professional classes, receive STC’s monthly magazine, professional journal and blog, volunteer opportunities, plus you meet a community of friends who will support you throughout your career. But this is just the start of what will unfold for you. Entry to the open house is free so come join us!

Registration is now open, but there is a limited number of tickets so don’t procrastinate. Make this event one of your New Year’s resolutions!