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The worldwide backchannel chatter is that Microsoft unleashes bugs on unsuspecting people. This gives us two public speaking lessons to think about. Blowing Smoke: Outrageous acts and claims get attention. Check your email inbox - especially the junk folder. His message reached a much larger audience that seemed to cherish his Bill Gates released a container of mosquitoes as part of his presentation schtick at the exclusive TED conference last week. Apparently, his gimmick intended to teach a privileged TED audience that mosquitoes cause malaria. However,

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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 you know members of the group to which you're speaking, by all means, reach out to them. (Anyone Anyone who lets me know they're coming to hear me speak usually gets a response email saying, "And what would you That sea of faces, those nudging/BlackBerry-ing/distracted people, the eager fans, the strangers, your office colleagues. Who are they?

Not only that, but make sure you answer EVERY email.  Tags: Presenting Public Speakin I was watching another one of Gary Vaynerchuck's keynotes this evening.  This one at LeWeb conference in Paris.  I'm a big fan of Gary's and had a chance to meet him [pic] at a recent book signing for his book, Crush It.  Towards the end of this particular keynote he refers to the event as a "conference" but is quickly

Shoot, just email them the PDFs and save everyone the tedium of your delivery. Tags: presentaion backchannels multitasking delivery Twitter communication public speakin Some presenters like using Twitter and backchannels for participants while presenting, others do not. I believe it entirely rests