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313 Articles match "Audience","Room","Speaking"
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
It's no surprise that we're seeing cases studies coming out of the recent SXSW interactive conference of what to do--and what not to do--when trying to mesh old-school speaking standards with the new Twitter backchannel. Earlier this week, I offered you some lessons from the Twitter CEO's unsuccessful SXSW keynote : Let the audience express itself early, don't sit to be sure you project energy, be interactive with the audience when you represent an interactive technology and plan, plan, plan your content. Today, New York University professor Jay Rosen--who refers to "the people formerly known as the audience" as a signal of audience power--weighs in with a positive case study, How the Backchannel Has Changed the Game for Conference Panelists. If you are organizing, speaking at or just attending a conference, meeting or workshop, I think it's a must-read because it is: A positive and achievable primer on how to put together a panel discussion that A vision of how to merge the audience's needs and those of the speakers , mixing advance information and promotion with in-person followup
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Audiences may have short attention spans, but they need some subtelty from you.
And that is because we all do have such short attention spans – including our audiences! If we want to make a point that will stay with an audience after they leave the room, we have to repeat and reinforce it throughout the presentation.
Ah … a contentious statement, that! What do you think?
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Louis Gray sums up what happened succinctly: After thousands of Twittering geeks and quasi-geeks alike had settled in to the packed exhibition hall and overflow rooms to hear the latest updates delivered straight from Twitter's leader, their excitement soon turned to boredom and finally, severe annoyance, as the interview's pace, tone and content fell well below expectations . Time and again, when I ask my readers what they fear most, several mention the fear that, despite their best effort, their speech will fall flat, get no reaction or a bad reaction--that there will be a mismatch
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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. It requires discipline and effort to simply sit and listen passively to someone speak for any length of time. 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
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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. 8230;looking around the room, more people are watching the twitter screen than are listening to Arthur’s great preso.
Twitter is now a reality at many conferences. Photo used with permission from Fred Wilson
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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. If you interrupt them the first time they try and speak, they’ll be like a jack-in-the-box for the rest of your session. Most hecklers are made, not born. If people don’t feel listened to they will turn into hecklers.
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Friday, December 7, 2007
Rhett Laubach posted a nice overview of how to read your audience members and how best to connect with them, based on their motivations for being there. "Hostage I've found that by giving everyone in the room the same level of energy - and not taking it personally when someone doesn't appear to be paying attention - I still manage to reach those who seem unreachable. Take a few minutes to check out Rhett's post, Hostage Harriet" is particularly challenging; here's an excerpt: "I am here because I was forced to be here. I didn't have a choice.
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Monday, April 6, 2009
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.
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
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:
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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side. 0160; The audience wants you to
succeed. 0160; To begin with, an audience is yours to please. But what about those rare audiences that really do want you
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
I just trained a group of nearly 100 scientists in speaker skills and message development for public audiences, at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. We spent a lot of time talking about the need to start with your audience's needs, and the limited attention spans of modern audiences. So it was not a surprise when one participant asked, "What do you do if you're losing your audience's The daylong training allows for plenty of questions, and I'm always eager to hear what speakers and would-be speakers have on their minds . Here are some of my suggestions:
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Monday, August 31, 2009
First of 3 blogs on connecting with your audience.
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speakers speakers wish to connect with their audiences. how do you connect with an audience through body language? demonstrated this phenomenon many times to audiences I’ve lectured to about
communication, 0160; What is the most powerful way to do that? 0160; Every communication is two
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Saturday, September 6, 2008
Steve shares some interesting and fresh ideas on how to command a room in one of the chapters and here, I’m going to do you a favour and divulge you 3 of these!
How To Float Into A Room
Steve tells us how to do this; before you step in front of an audience, take a deep breath. Photo credits to Neville
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