Sarah A. V. Kirby, Please consider Google+ Hangouts. First, they're free! And they're relatively easy to set up. With a hangout, you control your presentation by using "Screen Share" to display your power point. I've done many hangouts, many GoToWebinars and a few with Skype. I'm afraid I would recommend Skype. Also, your presentation can be recorded on YouTube for future reference. If it has to stay behind a pay wall, that's also easy to set up. In any of these tools, you'll need to make sure that there's a good internet connection, preferably hardwired. For the Google+ Hangouts, there are many simple to follow YouTube videos you can watch. "Dear Myrtle" has many that she's uploaded with Russ Worthington. Most are short and quite understandable. Hope that helps! Dave Robison -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 3:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM Digest, Vol 9, Issue 68 Today's Topics: 1. New book of interest on Italian American immigrant literature and writings (Tony LaLuzerne) 2. First Webinar Advice (Sarah A. V. Kirby) 3. Re: First Webinar Advice (Elissa Scalise Powell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:03:05 -0700 From: Tony LaLuzerne <[email protected]> Subject: [TGF] New book of interest on Italian American immigrant literature and writings To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 A new book we received that may be of interest: Italoamericana : the literature of the great migration, 1880-1943 / edited by Francesco Durante Fordham University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780823260621 (Originally published in Italian by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in 2005) Summary via Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Italoamericana-Literature-Great-Migration-1880-1943/d p/0823260623/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427211742&sr=1-1): ?The highly-anticipated first English-language edition of the monumental critical anthology of writings from the golden age of the Italian disapora in America is now available. To appreciate the life of the Italian immigrant enclave from the great heart of the Italian migration to its settlement in America requires that one come to know how these immigrants saw their communities as colonies of the mother country. Edited with extraordinary skill, Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943 brings to an English-speaking audience a definitive collection of classic writings on, about, and from the formative years of the Italian-American experience. Originally published in Italian, this landmark collection of translated writings establishes a rich, diverse, and mature sense of Italian-American life by allowing readers to see American society through the eyes of Italian-speaking immigrants. Filled with the voices from the first generation of Italian-American life, the book presents a unique treasury of long-inaccessible writing that embodies a literary canon for Italian-American culture--poetry, drama, journalism, political advocacy, history, memoir, biography, and story--the greater part of which has never before been translated. Italoamericana introduces a new generation of readers to the "Black Hand" and the organized crime of the 1920s, the incredible "pulp" novels by Bernardino Ciambelli, Paolo Pallavicini, Italo Stanco, Corrado Altavilla, the exhilarating "macchiette" by Eduardo Migliaccio (Farfariello) and Tony Ferrazzano, the comedies by Giovanni De Rosalia, Riccardo Cordiferro's dramas and poems, the poetry of Fanny Vanzi-Mussini and Eduardo Migliaccio. Edited by a leading journalist and scholar, Italoamericana introduces an important but little-known, largely inaccessible Italian-language literary heritage that defined the Italian-American experience. Organized into five sections--"Annals of the Great Exodus," "Colonial Chronicles," "On Stage (and Off-Stage)," "Anarchists, Socialist, Fascists, Anti-Fascists," and "Apocalyptic Integrated / Integrated Apocalyptic Intellectuals"--the volume distinguishes a literary, cultural, and intellectual history that engages the reader in all sorts of archaeological and genealogical work.? Tony L. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 05:35:45 +0000 (UTC) From: "Sarah A. V. Kirby" <[email protected]> Subject: [TGF] First Webinar Advice To: TRANS-GEN <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I've been hired to do my first official webinar! The application/tool suggested by the library was Skype. Is this the best tool to use? (I will email my presentation to the library so they can show it while I talk.) Any tool suggestions need to be free and either known to be common to many smaller libraries, or entirely cloud-based. What preparation besides a mini dry run with the library should I do that is different than that which I do for an IRL [In Real Life] presentation?-- I've already scheduled the mini dry run about a week before the actual presentation ?-------------------- Sarah A. V. Kirby [email protected] (primary) [email protected] (alternate) LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahavkirby ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 02:07:13 -0400 From: "Elissa Scalise Powell" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TGF] First Webinar Advice To: "'Sarah A. V. Kirby'" <[email protected]>, "'TGF'" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" So the library will project your PowerPoint and Skype in your voice and video? If that is the case you have to build into your lecture a cue for them to advance the slide. "As the next slide shows..." Make sure the computer has speakers that will be heard by the entire audience. When I did this for a group in Arizona (from Pennsylvania) they plugged in external speakers and they only projected the PowerPoint (on a separate computer to my recollection -- I wasn't there!) So only those around the laptop with the Skype saw me. Make sure your technical team on the other end remembers to plug in the power cords. It is a battery drainer. GoToMeeting is popular software and does cost. I don't know if they have a trial version. It does allow you to be in control of your PowerPoint. Google Hangouts is a free option. You will probably get more advice on this one from others on the list. -- Elissa Elissa Scalise Powell, CG , CGL www.PowellGenealogy.com www.GRIPitt.org 28 June-3 July 2015 and 19-24 July 2015 in Pittsburgh, PA CG, Certified Genealogist, CGL, and Certified Genealogical Lecturer are service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations. The board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sarah A. V. Kirby via Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 1:36 AM To: TRANS-GEN Subject: [SPAM-Med] [TGF] First Webinar Advice I've been hired to do my first official webinar! The application/tool suggested by the library was Skype. Is this the best tool to use? (I will email my presentation to the library so they can show it while I talk.) Any tool suggestions need to be free and either known to be common to many smaller libraries, or entirely cloud-based. What preparation besides a mini dry run with the library should I do that is different than that which I do for an IRL [In Real Life] presentation?-- I've already scheduled the mini dry run about a week before the actual presentation -------------------- Sarah A. V. 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