Do Something Fun (or Funny) Together - When you go to a concert, what do you expect to hear?  At a recent Ben Fold's concert, Ben decided to have some fun with his audience and log-on to ChatRoulette.com with his 2,000 or so audience members.  We're all trying to find a way to rise above the rest - to separate ourselves from the crowd. 

Like when you go to a concert and the singer shouts, "Hello, Santa Barbara!" Driving down State St. last week, hubby and I spotted a sign in the window of a soon-to-open Pinkberry: "Pardon our dust as Santa Barbara awaits Pinkberry's flagship store." Did Pinkberry really need to remind me that the store is opening in Santa Barbara?

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They might even quiver with enthusiasm and act in concert to create beautiful results. Language and power are inextricably linked. The spoken word pushes ideas out of someone’s head and into the open so humankind can contend with adopting or rejecting its validity. Presenting those ideas can either evoke puzzled stares or frenzied enthusiasm.

If I have to sit in the middle seat at a concert, so be it. I've written before about my own experiences with panic attacks , about thought traps that mistake emotions for reality , dealing with setbacks , and letting go of the negative. And the longer you avoid the scary thing, the bigger and scarier it gets. But he's doing it!

Just as a football player or a violinist warms up muscles before engaging them in the game or the concert, so should a speaker warm up the muscles required for speaking before a presentation. One of the actor's most precious tools is his voice. As business presenters, we can benefit by taking a page from the actor's script. FACIAL MUSCLES.

know, first hand, that Bruce Springsteen fans yell “Bruuuuuce&# at his concerts, which to many people new to his concerts, sounds exactly like people booing. If aliens landed at a lecture they’d be very confused about what’s going on at the end. They do not clap hands in the wild. It’s not be applaud something.

made it for a benefit concert’s bake sale and people raved about it. I’ve written on this topic before (see the links below), but it’s important enough to cover again. This past weekend I went to a conference. heard some great content, but a lot of it was either over my head or irrelevant to my needs. sifted powdered sugar.

The therapist notes that three weeks of concerted effort and training could help either Rocca or Rudy correct his lisp; then the discussion moves to whether you want to lose it. The oath is full of s-sounds--especially "the Consitution of the United States of America.")

Memorization works well for a lot of things: telephone numbers, Latin verb endings, the song lyrics for the holiday concert. Memorization doesn't work so well for presentations. Yet far too many times, presenters -- novice and experienced alike -- resort to memorizing their material. SO WHAT SHOULD YOU DO INSTEAD OF MEMORIZE?