few minutes spent around extremely happy and excited people in a famous amusement park in  Copenhagen reminded me once again about the power of emotional contagion. Photo credit: Bill DeRouchey Links • For tips on presentation delivery checkout books by Jerry Weissman and Bert Decker. • A great older post by Kathy Sierra that I actually remembered reading back in '06. • Mirror neurons and Asperger's Syndrome — interesting 5-min vide The day after the From Business to Buttons conference in Malmö Sweden, I spent the day in Copenhagen with Bill DeRouchey and Scott Berkun and his wife Jill.

Jerry’s book The Power Presenter has many tips on connecting with the audience but what it has–that no other book to date does–are real historic video examples. It takes a bit of courage to move outside your comfort zone, but it is powerful and memorable because many people don’t have the guts to be animated. As a presenter, I feed off the energy of the audience. I

What was your favorite movie?  What made it so memorable?  Recently I was asking a few Duartians at work what sound in a movie was most memorable to them?  I got a great response from the crew.  The variety was interesting because some people most remembered the orchestral sound score of a film.  

In fact, visitors searching our site for the phrase “content marketing” increased by 85% in 2009 over 2008. 5 Twitter Tips to Strengthen Your Content Marketing Strategy You may be wondering why something as seemingly simple as Twitter causes so much confusion and consternation among business people. Perhaps, it best likened to a tool like a hammer which is simultaneously simple and powerful. In fact, in 1997 when we started our small business It’s been a very good year for content marketing. Social media certainly loomed larger in the past 12 months but interest

I’ve blogged many times on how NOT to use Power Point.  0160; But what about the right way to use Power Point?  0160; Following are 10 rules for using Power Point successfully. 0160; Assemble these photographs, charts and graphs, and numbers in a Power Point deck. 0160; Most people use it incorrectly, and it becomes a barrier between speaker and audience.  0160; For example, they create word slides, really speaker notes, with many bullets of text, expecting – what? –

"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

The most powerful time to have your eyes up is at the end of a sentence. Even a newbie at public speaking knows they should make eye contact. But the term eye contact is rather vague. It can infer just making fleeting “contact” with a person then moving on.

The theme is "What would you like to see in PowerPoint slide design in 2009?" Let me then revise Olivia's charter (as did others) to focus on what I'd like to see in PowerPoint, or even just what I'd like to see in presentations in 2009. And, That will give them a powerful and (hopefully) succinct way to think about what is to come. THERE'S AN INTERESTING TOPIC being bandied about by some of us presentation blogger types that you might find valuable. The idea was sparked by Olivia Mitchell (I'll give you the back story in a minute) and I couldn't resist the invitation

That’s the blog powered website of Chris Griffith, a realtor with Downing Frye real estate. In case you think that only a high-powered realtor with a giant team and a huge budget can replicate Chris’s success, you should know that she built her website by herself for zero dollars using WordPress. Technology empowers even non-technical people like Chris to create a professional blog powered website that has all of the core functionality that you would have seen Effective content marketing online drives LifeinBonitaSprings.com to number four on search rankings.

(Editor's note: I had to miss this dynamic presentation about women speakers and body language, but colleague Debbie Friez -- an officer of Washington Women in Public Relations, the event convener, and vice president at BurrellesLuce -- sent in this guest post about the event, emphasizing tips Eloquent Woman readers can use.) Body language expert, Janine Driver , aka “The Lyin’ Tamer”, is calling 2009 “The Year of the Woman”, and she has made it her goal to help women be aware of their body language. Here are some of the great tips you can use for your next presentation, media