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78 Articles match "Audience","Laptop"
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Armed with laptops and smartphones, audiences are no longer sitting quietly while speakers are talking — instead they’re using Twitter and other tools to create a backchannel where they chat with one another, make comments about your presentation and broadcast their thoughts to people all over the world.
If audiences are happy, the backchannel can spread your ideas far and wide, create buzz about your ideas, and keep a conversation going long after you leave the podium. with Cliff Atkinson
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Here's the basic recipe: Someone, the expert, strides to the front, gets introduced, stands behind a lectern on a raised platform and speaks for 30 minutes to an hour, perhaps taking a few audience questions at the end, but only if time permits. People in the audience listen, and clap at the beginning and end. Here are the six ingredients Public speaking comes with a lot of assumptions baked into it--forms, formats and formalities that have been used over and over again for centuries. There might be handouts to take away with more information, or business cards.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
Here are two who seem unlikely partners, yet have formed a partnership. Fashion designer Vivenne Tam and Hewlett Packard--uses Tams's designs on laptop covers Opi nail polish (premier brand, known for hip polish names) and Dell computers--uses Opi branded colors on laptop covers. Take a look: [link] I mention these unusual pairings to suggest that any creative pairing can work, with the right promotion, personal chemistry, and niche audience. Two legends in public speaking, Patricia Fripp and Alan Weiss, speak together and bill themselves as the Odd Couple , and they have registered Odd Couple as a trademark.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
People can now take notes on their phones and laptops, or they may have a game on their cellphone which is equivalent to doodling.
So the first point is that people who appear to be fully-engaged with their cellphones and laptops may still be paying attention to you.
Your audience are adults. 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.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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.
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Monday, September 1, 2008
Like standing behind a lectern, being tied to your computer: freezes you in position inhibits gestures reduces eye contact with your audience (every two minutes you're looking down for that key) and keeps you from moving freely around the stage. You gain freedom of movement, freedom to interact with the audience and maintain your connection with them instead of having to retreat back to the keyboard whenever you want to change a slide.
...Tags: Since we've been talking about coming out from behind the lectern , let's talk about coming out from behind the computer .
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
audience halfway. In short, you need to speak the language of your audience. event, the group, the audience well enough, and we don’t understand what their
issues it presents itself to us, not to the audience. Principle I:
Persuasive rhetoric is about phrasing your arguments so that your
listeners
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
There’d been just enough notice of the room change that an organizer was able to bring a projector from his office, and it wasn’t quite compatible with my laptop—what were the odds of that happening?--so Yes, I was wearing high heels.) And here’s what happened: What sounds like a speaking disaster turned out to be a great speaking experience, for me and for the audience. I’m always coaching speakers to plan ahead, then be ready for anything on the ground. That's two different mindsets: One to get ready, rehearsing for the ideal; two, to toss that out the window and take what
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience. That’s because I think it’s much easier for you as a presenter if there’s just one application open on your laptop – rather than having to click between applications during your presentation.
But you can take Twitter breaks – where your audience can tweet and you can read the Twitterstream for realtime feedback. Gradually tools are being developed to make it easier for you as the presenter to manage the backchannel.
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
So the next time you present at a conference, instead of being confronted by a sea of faces looking at you, you may be phased by a sea of heads looking down at their laptops. The challenge is how to adapt to presenting with the back-channel. Photo credit : Pete Lambert Benefits of the back channel to the audience As a presenter, the idea of presenting while people are talking about you is disconcerting. But to Pistachio Micro sharing. Macro results. HOME TOUCHBASE BLOG Your Suggestions?
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
It’s kind of silly question as I’m not sure a speaker can effectively ban anything in their audience, but someone asked me this the other day. It’s an interesting question if you pile all the technology of laptops, mobile devices and phones, and how that helps or hurts the ability for a speaker to keep people’s attention.
The makeup of the audience and their interest in good will
A better question is: what is the best way for everyone to get as much value from the speaker as possible?
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Rather than banning laptops and phones from the lecture hall and the classroom, we aim to ask what precisely they have on offer for these settings understood as performative sites, as well as for a culture that equates individual attentional behavior with intellectual and moral aptitude. In an industrial society, the scarce resources are goods and services. Lanham 1997 , 164] 1 University students are browsing Facebook on their laptops and sending text messages to their friends when they should be focused on the lecture; they are tending to their instant messages,
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Great as back channel, speakers can see what audience wants
Tradeoffs - can distract speaker, be rude, discount audience
One more things for corporations to assimilate, change "laptops down" policy
@ChrisBrogan Note taking useful for in house audience
Speaking and Twitter dominance The experience of South by South West (SXSW) in Austin is like the
Wild West - it's the frontier of Social Media converging with traditional conference,
dominated
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