As someone who was in the audience of that webinar, thank you for not rescheduling. I appreciated the honesty of the moment. I felt reassured that mistakes happen, but when you have the inner wisdom and experience you can still more than salvage the moment. Your presentation enabled me to make a couple of mindset shifts that were really helpful. You were great!
Thank you, Nina! So happy that it was helpful for you.
And, oh yeah, mistakes can, will, and do happen. I think I’ve finally built up a large enough of a callous that I just keep on going now. The previous webinar disasters helped — one of my favorites was when On24 (the webinar platform — pre-zoom days!) switched the audio feeds for multiple webinars.
My audience for a document imaging presentation was getting a soybean crop estimate.
Someone else’s audience was getting me, cussing, a lot.
I wish I had kept the questions — my audience started making jokes about greasing the rollers with soybean oil, could soybeans make good paper for archival, and other industry jokes funny to no one else.
Then they “fixed” the feeds and we were getting a not-for-public, NDA only conversation about a merger.
Huh, that was never one of my worries — also why I got into the office early on webinar days when I could though.
A speaker (big problem) or sponsor (lol, their problem) missing the call, that gave me the heeby-jeebies.
My biggest paranoia was fat-fingering (or someone else) the “end” button in the middle of a presentation. Still no fucking clue what ON24 was thinking with that button placement and availability.
I love your ability to create such powerful visuals and make us laugh along. Also, how have I never heard of Chris Stapleton?!?
As someone who was in the audience of that webinar, thank you for not rescheduling. I appreciated the honesty of the moment. I felt reassured that mistakes happen, but when you have the inner wisdom and experience you can still more than salvage the moment. Your presentation enabled me to make a couple of mindset shifts that were really helpful. You were great!
Thank you, Nina! So happy that it was helpful for you.
And, oh yeah, mistakes can, will, and do happen. I think I’ve finally built up a large enough of a callous that I just keep on going now. The previous webinar disasters helped — one of my favorites was when On24 (the webinar platform — pre-zoom days!) switched the audio feeds for multiple webinars.
My audience for a document imaging presentation was getting a soybean crop estimate.
Someone else’s audience was getting me, cussing, a lot.
I wish I had kept the questions — my audience started making jokes about greasing the rollers with soybean oil, could soybeans make good paper for archival, and other industry jokes funny to no one else.
Then they “fixed” the feeds and we were getting a not-for-public, NDA only conversation about a merger.
Dear gawd. Missing a webinar was a literal recurring nightmare for me.
Huh, that was never one of my worries — also why I got into the office early on webinar days when I could though.
A speaker (big problem) or sponsor (lol, their problem) missing the call, that gave me the heeby-jeebies.
My biggest paranoia was fat-fingering (or someone else) the “end” button in the middle of a presentation. Still no fucking clue what ON24 was thinking with that button placement and availability.