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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
If conference organizers don't lead -- someone else will! “Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends - if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
We talk a lot about organizing our content, main points, opening and closing, but we rarely talk about how to get from one segment to the next. They're like links in a chain that keep your presentation cohesive and organized. How do you handle the spaces in between your points, stories, examples, and exercises? These are your transitions .
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
Great presentations are well organized. This is what every great speaker wants! (C)2008 www.schrift.co Did you know that great speakers are often nervous with butterflies in their stomach before giving a presentation? And there are many actors/actresses who can not speak to live audiences without cue cards. My 13 years as a professional speakers bureau owner
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Subvocalization means "the act or process of inaudibly articulating speech with the speech organs" . More on PowerPoint . . . Most of us really hate it when a speaker reads from her PowerPoint slides, but we may not know exactly why (besides the fact that she keeps her back to us the whole time and speaks like a robot). When we read, we are subvocalizing; that is, we are speaking the words in our heads.
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Monday, November 24, 2008
in a variety of professions for some time now--and sometimes getting pushback from male organizers of conferences who dismiss or defend speaker rosters with low percentages of women. Free Range Librarian looks at the issue in library conferences, asking whether women are less likely to pursue speaking opportunities, or whether organizers are less likely to recognize their acoomplishments? What does it take for a conference to feature more women speakers on the program? Women have been blogging, writing and researching the question "Where are all the women speakers?"
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
They want you to fit your organization into the bigger picture. Every organization -- profit or nonprofit; private or public sector -- exists to create value. When you connect what your organization does with what your audience knows in their hearts, you create meaning.
Connect with your audience. They want, at minimum, three things.
First, they want to connect with the speaker.
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Monday, July 21, 2008
She's a professional organizer, someone who teaches other people how to organize their space and time. If you're a professional organizer, you look like you don't practice what you preach. If you're not a professional organizer, you still appear not to have your act together. A speaker whose presentation I attended the other day said, right off the bat, "This is information I normally cover in a full-day workshop, so I'm going to try to get through a lot of stuff in 20 minutes," or something like that. She didn't say it just once.
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
A friend of mine works for a community service organization. My friend described her colleague's methods of persuasion, including (her words) the "flowchart of 'why you should care'" that her colleague displayed, with graphics linking all of the relevant -- and irrelevant -- local organizations into a complex web. A new staff member in the program recently gave a talk to a fraternity on why they should get involved.
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Find the natural and organic humor in your story. If you forget part of your story or don't tell it in an organized way, your audience will be confused about how it applies to your topic. A quick "hello" and welcome to new readers who are finding me on Alltop! Today I gave a short presentation on using stories in public speaking.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
In each position, she reinvented communications by enhancing professionalism, improving client service, and meeting the organization’s strategic needs. Typically, someone--the organizer, a colleague, the host, a moderator--has the task of introducing you, and in my experience, few introducers take the time to make their words memorable. Meet Denise Graveline . Denise is president of don’t get caught a communications consulting and training firm.
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