Keeping the attention of an audience is pretty hard. Keeping the attention of an online audience is almost impossible when you do not make a conscious effort. And many people still struggle with audience engagement. Good thing there are several trusty tools that you can put in your Awesome-Audience-Toolbox! In the next few minutes, you will learn about five ways to make your live audience pay attention. It does not matter whether you’re presenting in a workshop, a seminar, or during a talk.

It’s the second hour of your all-day workshop. You take stock of your audience and notice that the first people are drifting away. Some are not looking at their screens any more. Others are asking about things you just explained. Get their attention back quickly: Revitalize the audience with some exercise! Chair-Yoga is for anybody and can be practiced in front of the computer. Here is all the information you need to exercise in your next workshop:

In mid-2021 we were contacted by a team organizing a series of workshops for an event at a university library. Before schnaq part of our team worked at the University of Düsseldorf and thus was the logical choice to help improve the event. We did not only bring the expertise from an educational background, but we also had the right technology. But let’s start at the beginning: 1. The situation we got in Every year, the library hosts an event called “Lange Nacht der aufgeschobenen Hausarbeiten” (translates to “The long night of postponed homework”).