Biases against different mobile platforms. Conference they are probably attached to a laptop or mobile device of some sort. Since (nearly) everyone at this conference would have a laptop–or a smart phone–they could load this chat room and join the discussion right where they were sitting. It worked just as expected–lots of people opened up their laptops to Last month Nancy Duarte spoke at Web2.0 Expo and it was a huge success.

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. But anyone who is staring into a laptop is not making eye contact with the speaker - they are taking a little bit of energy out of the room in order to give it to people who also have their eyes on laptops, either in the room or elsewhere. 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.

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That won’t be the fate of the iPad as it comes to market at just the right time, providing a marvelous new outlet for content marketers to capture the increasingly mobile digital generation that now includes most of us. It failed not because Steve Jobs’ ultimate concept was wrong, but because users weren’t screaming for a mobile device and because the Newton’s capabilities were limited and disappointing to many. A Powerful, Portable, Flexible, Connected, Social, and Cool Information and Entertainment Device for the 21st Century Once Again, Steve Jobs Gets His Timing Just

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. I also back up with my mobile phone having a PDF slideshow (it has a video cable), but any second device is good. 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 expert speaker.

Today, the tools for sharing what's happening, live and in real time, are right in your mobile phone or laptop. Who stands where: At a TEDx event in New York focused one education, speaker Jeff Jarvis told his listeners, "You should be up here." He was speaking to the audience's expertise, but many speakers also are moving into the audience to hold listeners' attention, make a stronger connection and provide some visual variety. I've taken to creating blog posts with useful links after my major addresses-- they become the "handout" and the context, all in one. Who watches:

It’s about the size of a quarter, which helps mobile presenters using a laptop. Small dongle that won’t stick out of laptops. If you don’t have a Tablet PC, it can be tough to make full use of BBP to sketch your slides or write directly on your screen during a presentation. If that’s the case, you may want to try Anoto penPresenter , which comes with a digital pen and special paper to help you get started drawing on your presentations.

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. expo, I scanned twitter via my mobile device in real time and made live changes . (added Categories Analyst API Asia Blogger Dinner Career Case Study Challenges Citizen Journalism Collaboration Community Manager Community Marketing Conference Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang Home Popular Posts About Contact Subscribe via RSS Connect with Jeremiah: twitter friendfeed linkedin flickr technorati Connect with Jeremiah on twitter Ripple 6 says the timing of my report is off [link] Ive observed most vendors are optomistic, brands the opposite.

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At some meetings, the practice of live-tweeting is controversial --that's the practice of using your laptop or mobile device to send short updates, often on Twitter, about what the speakers are saying, in almost real time. But when I'm watching Twitter, what I see are useful tips and feedback from the audience -- and you don't have to be the day's speaker to take advantage of them. Here are some recent tweets on a day this week when audience members had lots of advice for speakers in conferences and classrooms.