Instructions on how to present and dial in to the webcast should be emailed to you by the channel owner. If you have not received them, please contact the channel owner who invited you to speak.
Click the 'Presenting a Webcast?’ link from the homepage. First sign up to be a BrightTALK user, if you haven't already. You will be asked to enter a check code and a PIN number that is included in your instructions.
Prepared slides and polls for voting are added via the presenter screen and must be uploaded at least 15 minutes before your webcast is scheduled to go live. If you miss this cut off, contact the channel owner and arrange for the webcast to be rescheduled.
Add slides through the presenter screen. Please remember that slides can NOT be added during the 15 minutes before your webcast commences. If you need to make changes to the slide deck you can upload a new PowerPoint presentation, but you cannot replace individual slides. If you are one of a panel of presenters, please send your presentation to the channel owner who will combine all the presentations and then add this master deck to the webcast.
Please provide your slides in Microsoft® Powerpoint format (.ppt file). For .pptx files (PowerPoint 2007), please save them as a lower PowerPoint version. Password protection should always be disabled. All builds/animation and embedded audio or video will be lost in the conversion process. If you do wish to use builds (for example a list of bullet points being revealed) then split them out over several slides within the presentation. We recommend that your first slide be a large image (or large text) as a thumbnail of it will be used as an advert for your webcast in your channel and on brighttalk.com.
No. If you need to highlight areas of your slides, please do so within your slides before uploading them.
At any time before the 15-minute cut off before a webcast, open the presenter screen and click on the ‘Votes’ tab. Each poll requires the question and a number of possible answers to vote on.
Presenting through BrightTALK is easy. All you need is a telephone (we recommend that you avoid hands-free devices because their sound quality is often poor) and a computer with a reliable Internet connection.
During the build up to going live you will be given clear instructions over the phone and through your computer via the presenter screen. When you are ready, press the ‘Start Presenting’ button. If you need more time, just start when you are ready.
Yes. Treat your online webcast as you would a physical event. Your audience will be expecting you to commence at the advertised time. If you are late, your audience may leave!
When you have started presenting, the main slide displayed in your presenting screen is the slide your audience is seeing. You can change the slide by clicking 'Next Slide' and 'Prev Slide' or by shifting to the ‘Slide Tile’ view and jumping to another slide. As your main slide changes, so does the slide your audience sees. Using the ‘Vote’ tab in the presenter screen enables you to start, stop, and display the results of your polls.
During the live presentation you can see audience questions by clicking the ‘Questions’ button. The latest questions appear at the top of the list. Questions can be prioritized and flagged as answered.
You can see the number of live viewings on the presenting screen.
Their screen looks similar to your presenter screen. Buttons are arranged in the same order. They can see in real time the slides you control. They can write in questions but can't see all the questions asked. During a poll, once an audience member has voted they can immediately see the continuously updated results of the poll.
Yes. The webcast will be booked for a defined period. You will be alerted when you approach the end of the allocated time.
When you are finished and have thanked your audience, press the ‘Stop Presenting’ button—you will be asked to confirm this request. Once a presentation is over, your audience will be disconnected.
Keep going! Do not stop because a viewer has technical issues. (It could be attributable to their Internet connection or that their computer volume is turned down.) Always carry on with your presentation. The rest of your live audience doesn’t want to hear long pauses or hesitations and neither do your future audiences that will be listening to the recorded version.