John and I presented a webinar the other day, to an audience of about 250. It reminded me that I don't like webinars much and that I'm not comfortable doing them. Summoning up imaginary people I don't know moves into the too-hard-to-have-a-conversation-with department.

Then yesterday Nancy said yesterday made sense to me: Webinars are a performance art. Yes! If I can think of a webinar as a chance to perform rather than as a way of talking to people, then it opens up a whole different mindset and range of possibilities.

You probably need a brief, focused message for a webinar which is spun out into a good performance. It's the performing of a parable.

Perhaps I've become too precious about having meaningful conversations... I need to get better at performance skills - and to practice those performance skills in the dark.

Meantime I don't have the concentration to sit through a webinar or webcast (or even a telephone conference presentation) so I'm missing opportunities to learn through good examples.

I think I'll go and watch some TED talks instead and look for related performance inspiration there. 

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