It’s an interesting question if you pile all the technology of laptops, mobile devices and phones, and how that helps or hurts the ability for a speaker to keep people’s attention. Specific to twitter, at least there is some data on the question. But anyone who is staring into a laptop is not making eye contact with the speaker - they are taking a little bit of energy It’s kind of silly question as I’m not sure a speaker can effectively ban anything in their audience, but someone asked me this the other day. A

Rather than banning laptops and phones from the lecture hall and the classroom, we aim to ask what precisely they have on offer for these settings understood as performative sites, as well as for a culture that equates individual attentional behavior with intellectual and moral aptitude. In an industrial society, the scarce resources are goods and services. Lanham 1997 , 164] 1 University students are browsing Facebook on their laptops and sending text messages to their friends when they should be focused on the lecture; they are tending to their instant messages,

So the next time you present at a conference, instead of being confronted by a sea of faces looking at you, you may be phased by a sea of heads looking down at their laptops. On the other hand, when I see people taking notes (manually or with their laptops) I am encouraged. While the back channel gets to connect with their circle as they sit in a roomful of people they don’t know, they may be missing the opportunity to meet new people sitting around them. Pistachio Micro sharing. Macro results.

Keeping the audience eyes’ on you rather than their laptops benefits both you and the audience. Test legibility by sitting six feet back from your laptop display. If you’re interested in the speak, then you want more insight, but if you are just there to learn and listen, then presenting with photos and simple data seems to work. 20 tips for better conference speaking ~ 16 February 2009 ~ View from on stage as I’m preparing to speak at An Event Apart New Orleans 2008. I’ll be straight up with you: I don’t profess to be an

Intellectual means appealing to educated self-interest with data and reasoned arguments. was able to jump in and delivered my portion of the talk earlier than planned, which bought Jim enough time to get his second laptop to the place where the first had frozen. 15 Tips for Webinars: How to Add Impact When You Present Online By Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE July 7, 2009 Whenever you open your mouth, whether youre talking to one person or a thousand, you usually want to get a specific message across. How do you do that best when you are communicating through a webinar?

Housekeeping Prepare all your notes, laptops, make sure everyone has water before you get on stage, in some cases, plan out where folks will sit. Categories Analyst API Asia Blogger Dinner Career Case Study Challenges Citizen Journalism Collaboration Community Manager Community Marketing Conference Content Management System Content Management Systems Curated Social Content Data Portability Data Storage Digest eCommerce Economy Enterprise Web Ethics Europe Events Extranet Facebook Strategy

Show data on your slides only if the charts or graphs are simple, clean, and data points large enough to be seen in the back of the room. Otherwise, put data into separate handouts. 2. Step away from the laptop As I mentioned in this post last year, a wireless presentation remote will free you up from standing stiffly beside the computer, pressing keys to advance your slides. Inspired by Laura Bergells' recent PowerPoint propaganda post about changing fashions in PowerPoint, Olivia Mitchell pulled together a group of bloggers to participate in a group writing project about what we'd like to see in PowerPoint slide design this year.

standardized data web #sxswfsn       already getting bored…not to sound like a douche, but none of this is new to me re: portable graphs, social touchpoints #sxswfsn The play-by-play can also be entertainment of sorts.      favorite intro ever - question from “low persuasion marketer” #sxswfsn       Finally got the required crazy rambling conference questioner that never made a point. #sxsw I’ve taught at various universities in recent years as a guest lecturer and the feel is very different with students having laptops in front of them open the

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A few suggestions: half day or single day make it freeeven better than usual contentno frills Paula Crerar Our company had a technology that collected data from attendees in real time, so we fhad 5 years' worth of attendee data, including what attendees considred valuable at conferences. types: not everyone has a laptop, not everyone's on Twitter, not everyone has an iPhone, not everyone even wants to be sitting next to someone tapping away nonstop. chrisbrogan.com Home About Speaking Rockstars Newsletters Contact Best Of The Art of Butts in Chairs March 20, 2009 · Comments I run a series of conferences .