Panel Discussions - Online

Guy Kawasaki notes that with online video, the audience for a panel discussion may turn out to be thousands of people around the world, rather than the few hundred people in the room. His advice:

Online audiences of this magnitude impacts every panel in several ways:

The size of the audience at the event is not nearly as important as whether it will be recorded and publicized. With the online video, there’s no such thing as a small audience anymore.

No matter how small the physical audience and obscure the event, you’d better be on your toes and give a great performance because tens of thousands of people might see it. With online video, there’s no such thing as a “small slip up.”

Best case: look at both the audience and the camera. Whatever you do, don’t look at only the moderator unless you want 20,000 people to only see the side of your face.Technorati Tags: panel discussions, entrepreneur