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? Sir Ken Robinson speaking at "Hacking Education" organised by Union Square Ventures. With an actively tweeting audience, a twitter stream can move extremely fast. Twitter is now a reality at many conferences. Photo used with permission from Fred Wilson

One of the goals of the book is to talk about things going wrong in public speaking. Leave your story of a public speaking disaster! To help get things started, here’s some of my own public speaking disasters: 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 Few books ever mention how often things go wrong, even for experienced speakers, and I want to make sure these stories get told. It can be something that happened to you or something you saw or heard happen to someone

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 art of speaking 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

Home Presentation eBook Blog About Best Posts Content PowerPoint Nervousness Delivery Audience Contact Browse > Home / Audience / 8 things I learnt about using twitter as a participation tool 8 things I learnt about using twitter as a participation tool March 1, 2009 by Olivia Mitchell Welcome to this blog - my aim is to make a difference to the success of your presentations. Olivia Today, I presented a session remotely at the Presentation Camp at Stanford University,

They've already sat through way too many remote, aloof speeches and presentations. Audiences want a real person -- not a disembodied voice in the dark reading PowerPoint bullets. Look right into the eyes of audience members. The second thing audiences look for in most speeches is a hint of They want, at minimum, three things. First, they want to connect with the speaker.

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

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Web seminars (AKA “webinars” or “webcasts”) are online seminars or presentations used to synchronously engage remote audiences with any content that can be presented from a computer desktop. Participants engage aurally with audio conferencing using their telephones or computers with headset, and many solutions offer video to enhance the visual connection between presenters and audience members. This is a guest post by Roger Courville. You can find out more about Roger in his bio at the end of this post.

Most presenters click on the next slide, and then speak about what’s on the slide. stay silent while the audience takes the slide in. start talking again when I can see that the majority of the audience has transferred their attention back to me. Let the slide speak There’s a revolution in the design of PowerPoint slides, but not the delivery. Most speakers still rely on their slides to cue them.

Here are just a few examples of what they've done: Raced full-size cars using remote controls Raced three cars as far as they would go on one tank of gas Raced a car to the top of a mountain against a rock climber climbing the cliff face Raced a car to the airport against a boat and a bike And one of my favorites: Placed one car on top of the other, with the steering wheel in one car and the brakes in the other. Can your audiences say the same about your presentations? ...Tags: If you want your presentation to be informative and fun and memorable, take a lesson from the hosts of Top Gear.