This took place when screen sharing was still comparatively crude.
“You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.”
– Tom Kite
I was a participant in a public webinar that had a very large audience, with perhaps eight or nine hundred people in the session. Everything was going well until a rather embarrassing email preview message appeared in the bottom-right corner of the presenter’s screen.
The message described plans for a date that evening in rather graphic and embarrassingly intriguing terms!
And while audience engagement suddenly shot up, it was not in the form the presenter would have desired. Chat was swiftly overflowing with comments about the impending date, and the balance of the webinar was lost in the chaos!
Moral: Be careful what you share!
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