"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. Start using this "short and sweet" writing technique in 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 topic.

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. But if anything, I’ve done quite a bit of speaking over the past four years (see the summary on my LinkedIn public profile ), and therefore I’ve learned a few things about speaking along the way. The 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

chrisbrogan.com Home About Speaking Rockstars Newsletters Contact Best Of How to Start Speaking at Events December 8, 2008 · Comments One day, I wasn’t a speaker at conferences, and then I was. If you’re interested in speaking at events, I have some ideas on how you might get that going. And then a little while later, I was a paid speaker. And now, I’m a decently paid speaker.

Telling a story is, for most people, the easiest of the more advanced opening techniques. I get frustrated at presentation advice which says you have to do something clever or dramatic at the beginning of a presentation to grab your audience’s attention. That’s for three reasons: 1.

You can do this by using a technique called chunking (I’ve written about chunking before as a solution for people who are told they speak too fast) . But it’s a very different technique. When I ask people on our courses how their presentation went they often say “It didn’t flow.” 8221; I ask them to elaborate and they say “I stumbled, I had mind blanks, and I had to start sentences again because they didn’t make sense.”

Olivia Mitchell of the Speaking About Presenting blog sent me this provocative post by Laura Bergells on the Maniactive blog: It notes the backlash against bullet-filled PowerPoint slides, which led to simple art-filled slides. But what does that mean PowerPoint slides should look like in 2009? You can either listen to a presenter speak, or you can Neither approach works for audiences, Bergells notes, proposing there is (or should be) another backlash against the simplified slide . In fact, she calls the use of simple art and pictures--designed to evoke emotional responses--"propaganda."

Boing Boing Home Gadgets TV Boing Boing Offworld Suggest a Link Archives Subscribe Mark Cory David Xeni John Moderation Policy Excellent public speaking advice Posted by Cory Doctorow , March 8, 2009 4:01 AM | permalink The inestimable Duncan Davidson, photographer laureate of the OReilly tech conferences, has distilled his experiences watching thousands of speakers on thousands of stages into a pithy, useful article about how to be a better

When some people speak, they grip the podium as a way to steady themselves and their speech. In another study, another group of Columbia scientists watched a series of polished professional lecturers and undergraduates speaking, and noticed that both types of speakers rarely came down with a case of the “um, ah and er” when they gestured. Do the words come a little easier when you go hands-free? Editor's note: This launches a new series on The Eloquent Woman blog that will Coyote and Roadrunner were the original action heroes. You’ve got the falling anvils, the rocket

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Watch Olivia Mitchell speak on how to incorporate Twitter into your presentations! Tags: Technology Speakers Public Speaking Techniques and Strategies PresentationCampL The first PresentationCampLA video has been posted! I hope to get all the videos on the PresentationCampLA site, so stay tuned.