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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Timely though, since I'm about to speak to a major Association's Management Team on finding "The Melody In Noise," and have found most do not know the Twitter basics - I want to point them here. If you know the basics, go to this post on the Why and How of Twitter. ). . Move to give value as soon as you can.
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Monday, June 1, 2009
Similar to, but simpler than, Pecha Kucha , and more involved than lightening talks , in ignite each speakers gets 5 minutes - but must have 20 slides and each slide must automatically progress in 15 seconds. This is super short, which means it’s easy to practice. It also means you have to be tight in your points. Do this.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
These usually related to disagreements around the content of a presentation. One tweeter admitted to tweeting that a presentation was boring and a waste of time. Some of these respondents claimed that their critical tweets were no different than what they would have been prepared to say face to face. The research.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
I’ve written a free eBook “How to present with Twitter (and other backchannels) to help you avoid that fate. asked my trusted and expert community to review the book and say what they thought of it: “Fantastic eBook! Simple steps to take avoid being roasted. How to respond to negative tweets.
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Can medical doctors, scientists, researchers, and engineers, and other specialists in technical fields benefit in anyway by learning how a graphic designer or interaction designer thinks? When I speak around the world I often put up a slide that asks people to make as many sentences as they can beginning with the word "Designers."
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
To learn how to design and deliver better presentations, we need to pull from many educational sources. don't usually suggest PowerPoint or Keynote "how-to" books, but instead recommend reading books from various design and communication fields to stretch your knowledge and perspective. Amazon link.).
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Everyone has heard the advice about incorporating stories into a presentation to make your message more " sticky " and easier to understand. you know, the person who always has an anecdote, a colorful example or a yarn to spin.then how exactly do you go about telling a story? HOW LONG SHOULD THE STORY BE?
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
This week I went to my first Pecha Kucha night in Wellington, New Zealand. Pecha Kucha was developed as a presentation format to allow design and creative types to share their passions and show off their work. You have to present with 20 slides and each slide is shown for 20 seconds. Wow – do we want to see it again!
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Most training conferences in most industries resort to what’s called a panel session. This is where 3 to 5 experts get up on stage and each one, in turn, bores the audience to death. For a panel to work the panelists must be comfortable disagreeing with, or passionately supporting, each other in front of a crowd.
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
Aided by some great comments, suggestions and questions from the audience, we discussed some of the important rules to follow if you want to develop a paid professional speaking career. Your first job is to build a platform and a community around something you’re passionate about. View photos on our Facebook Fan page.
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