Crafting a set of tweets for the main points of your presentation and then tweeting them as you make those points in your live presentation is a great way to be part of the Twitter conversation. Keynote Tweet allows you put your tweet wrapped in [twitter] tags in the presenter notes pane for that slide and when you click onto that slide, the tweet gets published. For the moment Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience. Gradually tools are being developed to make it easier for you as the

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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 . The exercise goes like this: the audience picks one of a dozen different audience types (eg. Naturally, we began to use the very same exercise to find a solution for how to teach it. Last month Nancy Duarte spoke at Web2.0 Expo and it was a huge success.

For example, when I was asked to present on the topic of social media & reputation management to an audience of college students earlier this month, I turned to the community at Twitter as an exercise in presentation content crowdsourcing. So I felt whimsically inspired to use a prophetic design treatment for some of the Twittered replies. What's Crowdsourcing? According to Wikipedia, crowdsourcing is outsourcing a task to a large group of people in an open call.

Yesterday I had a skype conversation with Twitter follower Todd (@TJList) on how to include audience participation in a presentation. Ideally, you would plan for audience participation exercises to be roughly evenly spaced through the presentation. However, having genuine, as opposed to contrived, exercises is more important. He’s presenting on getting through the economic downturn to an audience of small business owners. Here was his question:

then using PP's, (and videos, and exercises, and SHARP's, etc.) Nor Twitter stream for that matter. And experiment with a live Twitter stream - this can be distracting in a more formal speech but is great for tech/breakout/collaborative sessions. With all the recent emphasis on the design of your PowerPoints (Keynote for the Mac), it's time to revisit the fact that your visuals are NOT your presentation. You and your Point of View are the centerpiece.

Besides relieving stress and keeping you fit, exercise seems to stimulate ideas. Subscribe to the TED RSS feed or follow TED on Twitter. Kaizen (??) means "improvement" — "kai" (?) means change/make better, and "zen" (?)

If one more benefit shakes out of using Twitter, let it be a giant reduction in people using the passive voice. Of course, it might be a fun exercise to write your blog comments, exclusively using the passive voice. Tags: Presentation Twitter PowerPoin Which sentence do you like better? A PowerPoint presentation was given by the CEO.

I'm a big fan of Twitter. And many of my blogging colleagues are on Twitter, as well. The brevity of Twitter can make you a better designer. Using and studying Twitter can be a powerful exercise in how to get your point across swiftly and succinctly. Twitter is enjoying phenomenal growth. "What would you like to see in PowerPoint design in 2009?" That's what Olivia Mitchell, who writes the fantastic Speaking About Presenting blog, asked me last month. Now, Olivia didn't ask just me: she also acted as community organizer, posing the question to a plethora

Photos ( Zenfolio | Flickr ) Archives About Contact Dear Speakers By James Duncan Davidson on March 8, 2009 12:22 AM | 71 Comments Tagged: advice, speaking Last week, while shooting eComm 2009 in Burlingame, I started posting a set of thoughts on Twitter, all starting out Dear Speaker . To be absolutely clear, Twitter’s 140 character limit required a bit more force to this statement than I’d otherwise want to convey. Getting up on stage and speaking is a difficult and demanding thing to do.