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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. 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
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Monday, June 22, 2009
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
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Monday, June 29, 2009
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?
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
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.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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?
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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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Sunday, September 20, 2009
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?
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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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