Your audience are adults. If their behavior is not distracting or annoying other people in the audience it’s up to them whether they pay attention or not, and how they pay attention. Open your presentation and start to establish rapport with your audience, and then say: “I He says to his audience: “Here’s a deal. A reader asked me this question: Some of us who are 45+ are finding that younger people text and use computers during presentations to the point of rudeness.

Keeping audience attention is more important and more difficult than grabbing audience attention . What can I do to keep the audience’s attention through the whole of my presentation. Make it easier for your audience by following these seven guidelines: [Warning: Reference: Hartley J and Davies I “Note taking: A critical review” Programmed Learning and Educational technology, 1978,15, 207-224 cited by John Medina in Brain Rules A

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. Now, we expected a large crowd (we had over 200 attend this workshop) and we knew that Last month Nancy Duarte spoke at Web2.0 Expo and it was a huge success.

Now the question is: should you display a live twitter stream on a large screen so that everyone (not just the tweeters) in the audience can see it? With an actively tweeting audience, a twitter stream can move extremely fast. It will be very hard for the audience not to pay attention to the constantly moving screen - so it’s likely to be distracting. Twitter is now a reality at many conferences. Sir Ken Robinson speaking at "Hacking Education" organised by Union Square Ventures.

So the critical step to avoid making hecklers out of people in your audience is to listen. It will probably feel far too long for you, and you may even see some people in the audience getting restless, but this is the most effective preventative method to stop them continuing to heckle. Address your response to the whole audience, not just the heckler – though don’t avoid eye contact with them either. Most hecklers are made, not born. If people don’t feel listened to they will turn into hecklers.

Twittering snide, insulting remarks about your fellow committee members while they speak and marking it with #ala09 hash tag to ensure that the widest possible audience sees your comment: REALLY VERY NOT GOOD Tags: Presenting with Twitter Audience presentation twee The latest academic research on Twitter and conferences addresses the issue of “snarky tweets” during presentations. What should be the guidelines of what is acceptable and what is not?

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 business owners. How can I involve my audience in the presentation? Here was his question: I

As a presenter, I feed off the energy of the audience. used to think that the audience determined the energy in the room, but after applying some of Jerry Weissman’s principles, I learned the presenter has more control over the room than I previously thought. At first, I thought it was just a “cooler” audience than usual (which it was) but I could tell that the way I was presenting was having an effect on their energy level as well. I There was good energy at my Web2.0Expo presentation.

Someone yelled out that our scores were wrong, which prompted the audience to start yelling and booing us - things got out of control and I had to end the session early. Audience teaches me a lesson in front of 400 people ( San Francisco, 2007, @Etech ). 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 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,

Audiences today expect to have a conversation with speakers, and they crave real connection with successful speakers.  0160; The best way to ensure that these good things happen during your presentations is to involve your audiences throughout.  0160; As the audience shakes itself awake, and starts wondering if it does in fact have any questions, the speaker stands there for what seems like an eternity, then gives up and concludes that no 0160; But that takes some art.  0160; How do you think about it?