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405 Articles match "Audience","Topics"
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Her high energy voice: Whether she's mimicking someone, reinforcing an opinion, or making a statement clear, Merryman's voice takes us on a merry, high-energy romp through her topic: She pops keywords, whispers, cheers, pauses. She knows her topic, sure, but it takes preparation to explain it with this level of clarity. Her engagement with the Ashley Merryman: On Parenting from PopTech on Vimeo . With a generous hat tip to David Murray of Vital Speeches of the Day for pointing me here , check out this Ashley Merryman speech on parenting, praise and how it influences children's
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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 between what they see and what the audience sees. It's poignant here, because so many thousands of people looked forward to this keynote as a highlight of the interactive conference--even Gray's piece is titled, "The SXSW Keynote With Ev Williams You Had Hoped to See." His long wishlist for the talk indicates that would-be attendees came there--as most audiences do--with many
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
Aided by some great comments, suggestions and questions from the audience, we discussed some of the important rules to follow if you want to develop a paid professional speaking career. A blog is a great way to begin, of course; the idea is to create some buzz that connects you and the topic. You need a few others things after that, the most important of which is a DVD that shows you speaking I shared a ‘Core Conversation’ yesterday afternoon at SXSW with the consummate professional speaker Tim Sanders , author of Love is the Killer App , The Likeability Factor , and Saving the World at Work .
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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. Make it easier for your audience by following these seven guidelines:
[Warning: 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?
With an actively tweeting audience, a twitter stream can move extremely fast. It will be very hard for the audience not to pay attention to the constantly moving screen - so it’s likely to be distracting. Twitter is now a reality at many conferences. Sir Ken Robinson speaking at "Hacking Education" organised by Union Square Ventures.
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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. What prompted them to put on 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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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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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Do you ever feel like an audience member is attacking you when they ask challenging questions during your presentation? Hopefully, your audience doesn't actually try to discredit you or prove you wrong, as a client recently mentioned to me, but sometimes a particular question can provoke a feeling of anger or defensiveness. You might think that there are some topics that nobody could possibly challenge , but that's never the case. You might get riled up. You might get ruffled.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
With the explosion in popularity of microblogging tools like Twitter , presenters are now faced with the possibility, or even likelihood, that some members of their audience will be tweeting (posting on Twitter) during the presentation. They sputter, "But that means the audience won't be paying attention to me." THE AUDIENCE WON'T PAY ATTENTION Initially, that idea is off-putting to many presenters. Or "It will be distracting for me to see everybody typing on their iPhones."
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
0160; I talk more about authenticity in my book, Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma , but these blogs will cover a condensed discussion of the topic. 0160; Connected communication deals with the audience’s concerns. 0160; Following are eight ways to connect with an audience through your content. This is the second of a series of blogs on achieving authenticity in public communications. 0160; Authenticity is the sine qua non of our age.
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Friday, September 18, 2009
Your audience has the technology. Here are two tech-driven ways to let your audience co-create presentation content. Audience interactivity is a big part of the draw of PollEverywhere . You ask your audience a question; they can answer using Twitter, text messages, or the web. They're carrying smart phones. They have net books or note books.
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Monday, June 8, 2009
Begin instead with something that will capture the audience's attention in a way that's relevant to what you're talking about. 0160; You might have a question to ask the audience that gets its attention. Another great way to open is to involve the audience directly in some way. How do you begin a speech? 0160; There are still human beings who wander this earth recommending starting with a joke -- and even attempting it themselves.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
0160; I talk more about authenticity in my book, Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma , but these blogs cover a condensed discussion of the topic. 0160; The final step in achieving authenticity is to listen to your audience. 0160; If you think of a persuasive communication as a journey you take your audience (one or one thousand) on to change minds, then you’ll This is the last in a series of blogs on achieving authenticity in public communications. 0160; Authenticity is the sine qua non of our age.
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