If you want to use some speaker notes with some points to cover during your webcast presentation there is a good way and a bad way to do so. Obviously your speaker notes are short points and not a lengthy text. Simply to be used as a guide to keep you on track and assure you that you cover the important items on the agenda / get the facts correct.
When you are presenting during a webcast and you have your speaker notes on a piece of paper or somewhere on your screen not near the camera, your audience during a webcast will notice that you are not looking at them. This can be easily avoided by putting the notes on a MS Word document and reduce the size of this document and put this document at the top of your screen near the camera. By means of this, if you are not too close to the camera and you scroll down the document, your audience will think that you continue to look into the camera and not at your speaker notes that are just underneath the camera on your laptop for example. This is obviously something to test first, to see if it works.
