"What would you like to see in PowerPoint design in 2009?" That's what Olivia Mitchell, who writes the fantastic Speaking About Presenting blog, asked me last month. Lots of great ideas!) My PowerPoint design wishes for 2009? The look and feel of social media techniques will transition into PowerPoint design. Using and studying Twitter can be a powerful exercise in how to get your point Now, Olivia didn't ask just me: she also acted as community organizer, posing the question to a plethora of presentation bloggers. She asked us to write one post on this

Exposing ourselves to traditional Japanese aesthetic ideas — notions that may seem quite foreign to most of us — is a good exercise in lateral thinking, a term coined by Edward de Bono in 1967. "Lateral Beginning to think about design by exploring the tenets of the Zen aesthetic may not be an example of Lateral Thinking in the strict sense, but doing so is a good exercise in stretching ourselves and really beginning to think differently about visuals and design in our everyday professional lives. Lateral Thinking is for changing concepts and perception," says de Bono. The principles

Or if your presentation includes interactive exercises for the audience take those moments to look at the Twitterstream. A Seat Apart was developed by Allister Klingensmith literally over night at An Event Apart 2009 conference in Boston. Cliff Atkinson has written an excellent book “The Backchannel: How audiences are using Twitter and Social Media and changing presentations forever” which is to be released on 27 November 2009. Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience. Gradually tools

Tags: creative writing creative writing exercise fiction writing fictional character So that your characters don’t all look alike, sound alike and act alike, characters should have distinct features. It is particularly important for you to know your main characters well—to have a solid sense of who they are. Yes, there can be similarities between two major characters, but differences

Learn more about Twitter for business in our “Wednesdays at 1″ webinar series : Twitter for Business 101 February 25, 2009, 1PM EST Advanced Twitter for Business March 11, 2009, 1PM EST Twitter for Business resources: Twitter for Business reading list Follow @touchbase on Twitter for posts and our link blog Subscribe to the TouchBase blog via RSS or email Category : Touchbase Blog Bookmark : Digg del.icio.us Stumbleupon Redit it

Besides relieving stress and keeping you fit, exercise seems to stimulate ideas. Kaizen (??) means "improvement" — "kai" (?) means change/make better, and "zen" (?) means good — but as the term is used as a business process it more closely resembles in English “continuous improvement.”

Ideally, you would plan for audience participation exercises to be roughly evenly spaced through the presentation. However, having genuine, as opposed to contrived, exercises is more important. Your audience participation exercise should include time for them to think about what they want to say and/or an opportunity to rehearse what they want to say. Yesterday I had a skype conversation with Twitter follower Todd (@TJList) on how to include audience participation in a presentation. He’s presenting on getting through the economic downturn to an audience of small

Photos ( Zenfolio | Flickr ) Archives About Contact Dear Speakers By James Duncan Davidson on March 8, 2009 12:22 AM | 71 Comments Tagged: advice, speaking Last week, while shooting eComm 2009 in Burlingame, I started posting a set of thoughts on Twitter, all starting out Dear Speaker . Here’s a recap. Malcolm Matson, OPLAN Foundation, on stage at eComm2009 / ©2009 James Duncan Davidson Please deliver your speech to the crowd, not the screen. Getting up on stage and speaking is a difficult and demanding thing to do.

In preparation for her talk she asked me if there would be a way to reproduce an exercise called “Speaker & Audience Mapping” that she usually leads in the slideology workshops . The exercise goes like this: the audience picks one of a dozen different audience types (eg. Naturally, we began to use the very same exercise to find a solution for how to teach it. Last month Nancy Duarte spoke at Web2.0 Expo and it was a huge success.

Discover all the muscles in your mouth, throat and chest dedicated to speaking, and learn how to exercise them. Everything I know about presentations, I learned in Theatre School: A great piece by Darren Barefoot, a fellow Canadian based in BC. [...] Joey October 10th, 2008 1:38 pm Thanks for the great help… [ Reply ] « Start Your Week With an Addictive Flash Game Remix Your Guidebooks » Add a comment Name (required) E-mail address