the computer, the back-ups, the video display, the lighting, the remote, the microphone. It's 2008! Practice makes perfect, right? Not really. What about imperfect practice? If you practice badly, your performance will likely reflect your bad practices.

So let me share another of my favorite tools , the wireless presentation remote . The remote allows me to move around the stage or speaking area unhindered by my equipment. Some remotes are tiny and invisible in your hand. Some are as big as a TV remote control and have a ton of buttons and Since we've been talking about coming out from behind the lectern , let's talk about coming out from behind the computer . PowerPoint users are frequently seen standing in one place, pushing a button on their computer to advance their slides.

They've already sat through way too many remote, aloof speeches and presentations. They want, at minimum, three things. First, they want to connect with the speaker. Audiences want a real person -- not a disembodied voice in the dark reading PowerPoint bullets. Authenticity

Get a remote. Seth Godin recently posted his Nine steps to Powerpoint magic . Some of his "steps, not rules" are cheeky, like this one: "4. Pay by the word. Here's the deal: You should have to put $5 into the coffee fund for every single word on the wordiest slide in your deck.

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20 tips for better conference speaking ~ 16 February 2009 ~ View from on stage as I’m preparing to speak at An Event Apart New Orleans 2008. Need a wireless remote? It’s a little more bulky than I’d prefer, but in terms of reliability and range, it’s tough to beat this remote. ( I’ll be straight up with you: I don’t profess to be an expert speaker. I’ve had my share of presentations that have been total flops, along with some very successful ones.

Olivia Today, I presented a session remotely at the Presentation Camp at Stanford University, California. don’t know whether this would be such an issue in a standard conference presentation (the fact that I was a remote presenter and that the presentation was about using twitter in a presentation - made it very tweet-focused). There were only eight people in the room tweeting (some also tweeting remotely) but they managed to generate over 80 tweets in 40 minutes! Home Presentation eBook Blog About Best Posts Content PowerPoint Nervousness Delivery Audience Contact Browse > Home / Audience / 8 things I learnt about using twitter as a participation tool 8 things I learnt about using twitter as a participation tool March 1, 2009 by Olivia Mitchell Welcome to this blog - my aim is to make a difference to the success of your presentations.

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We joked about it later over drinks - he apologized, even though he was right). “Lets start 20 minutes late with gear that doesn’t work”  (San Francisco 2008, @Adobe Software ). spoke with a 2 second echo delay in my headset (required so 5 people could listen in remotely) the entire time, to an audience of maybe 15 people that blamed me for starting so late. One of the goals of the book is to talk about things going wrong in public speaking. Few books ever mention how often things go wrong, even for experienced speakers, and I want to make sure these stories

He spoke on his work as an "audio video therapist" and in his short time frame, he: * Played with a Slinky, representing a time when our entertainment needs were simple * Put on a straw hat with a Thich Nhat Hanh quote painted on it, to represent "zen" * Dumped a thick pile of tangled cables onto the table, representing what it looks like behind our sound systems * Dumped a pile of remotes on the table to represent the pile of remotes we all have sitting on our coffee tables * Produced a hilariously gigantic universal remote, in case we have trouble finding our regular remotes There was