chrisbrogan.com Home About Speaking Rockstars Newsletters Contact Best Of How to Start Speaking at Events December 8, 2008 · Comments One day, I wasn’t a speaker at conferences, and then I was. If you’re interested in speaking at events, I have some ideas on how you might get that going. And then a little while later, I was a paid speaker. And now, I’m a decently paid speaker.

Last week my team was at The Citrix Synergy event and Garr was the keynote speaker on opening day. Tags: Delivery Event Message Strategy citrix synergy garr reynold I love listening to Garr present . When he was here for Presentation//Reboot , he had me cackling in the back of the room each time he spoke. He has a magical style of presenting; it’s a wonderful

Tags: Design Event Video alex varanese contest fuzemeeting slideshare storytelling winne Today the winners were announced for SlideShare’s “Tell a Story” contest . The contest was sponsored by Fuze Meeting and the top winner won $5,000! Drunkenomics won the $5,000 grand prize:

Home Rock to the Top Events & Services Steeleworker Blog Demos About Contact RSS Feed Twitter Tips for Speakers: Before, During & After the Event by Dayna on June 26, 2009 As a professional speaker and event emcee, I am always looking for ways to expand my network with meeting planners, audience members, associations and more.  I’ve connected with event planners looking for a last minute speaker, gotten great feedback from audience members and generally just been able to keep my finger on the pulse of

Tags: Design Event Tutorial Video audience PowerPoint presentation slide:ology storytelling trainin What was your favorite movie?  What made it so memorable?  Recently I was asking a few Duartians at work what sound in a movie was most memorable to them?  I got a great response from the crew. 

Event Strategy Technology chat room meebo poll sms twitter web 2. Last month Nancy Duarte spoke at Web2.0 Expo and it was a huge success. In preparation for her talk she asked me if there would be a way to reproduce an exercise called “Speaker & Audience Mapping” that she usually leads in the slideology workshops .

Finally, thanks so much to Imation for sponsoring the event. Tags: Events PowerPoint Speaking Toastmaster On Monday evening, I ran a PowerPoint Karaoke contest at the Cape Communicators Toastmaster Club. This is the first one that I have ran, and it was a fantastic evening! We had about 10 people who were each given a random deck of PowerPoint slides, and they

We first worked with Paul when he spoke at the SIEPR event at Stanford and launched his foundation Bridge Cities Foundation . Tags: Design Event Video daniel pink paul romer taryn simon TED template TED sent a note today about the TEDGlobal talks that are “creating waves” so it was fun to see all three of the talks we helped with on the list. Here are some tidbits about them:

Following is a list of questions that speakers should ask meeting planners in getting ready to speak at an event.  What is the event theme? What is the point of the event for the audience? Who or what determines the success or failure of this event? 0160; You won't need to ask all of them all the time; the list is meant to give you a broad set of ideas.  0160; A. 

Tags: Audience-Centered Speaking Authenticity Event Planning Non-verbal Communication Public Speaking Speech Writing Storytelling Visual Aid I did an article years ago on the Ten Commandments of Public Speaking, Speaking, and it’s time to update it.   0160;