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Monday, February 8, 2010
Your political views aside, Sarah Palin's use of notes written in the palm of her hand over the weekend--caught by cameras--adds a whole new layer to our discussion of whether you need notes or not when you speak. This Los Angeles Times columnist hits the nail on the head for most speakers: Most of us need some help when we speak in public. In high school, The rules allowed you to use an index card with a maximum of 50 words of notes, but my teammates and I prided ourselves on our ability to wing it without a card. (This This worked against me at one speech tournament, when
 
Monday, February 8, 2010
Tags: Audience-Centered Speaking Authenticity Public Speaking Speech Writin Principle II:   Persuasive rhetoric has a clear goal in mind and is usually transparent about about it.   0160;
 
Monday, February 8, 2010
What we can learn in public speaking from those commercials is this: know your audience and try to adapt to them, while remaining true to yourself. If you can adapt to your audience a little and try to appeal to them, then your 'commercials' will be a success and will be money well spent. ...Tags: This year if you wanted to advertise during the Super Bowl, you had to pay CBS almost $3 Million dollars for 30 seconds worth of time. That's a lot of money for only 30 seconds - but you do get to advertise to almost 100 million viewers.
 

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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 A
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
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?
0160; Lose the Power Point – when you put up Power Point slides you ask the audience to look at 2 – or 3 – things at once: you, your slides, perhaps a printout of your slides. 0160;  Talk from the audience’s point of view – a common mistake presenters make is to explain an idea the way they learned it.  0160; But your history is not inherently interesting to an audience.  1.  That’s distracting.
Speaking, and it’s time to update it.   shall know that a speech is for the audience, not the speaker.   shall not dump information on the audience; thou shall rather seek to persuade.   attention span of the audience and keep it holy.   I did an article years ago on the Ten Commandments of Public Speaking, 0160;
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? 
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.
What should you know about your audience? think speakers have five opportunities, at minimum, to find out what they need to know about an audience . I always take the time to ask the organizers of any conference, session or meeting at which I'm speaking what I should know about the audience, especially in reference to my topic. If it is relevant to That sea of faces, those nudging/BlackBerry-ing/distracted people, the eager fans, the strangers, your office colleagues. Who are they?
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