They’ve used curtains to build up a “room” on the bleachers of this part of the stadium. On the outside of the box is projected both a live video of me as well as my projected computer. That acts as an overflow room, and there’s people sitting out there also. I’ve given lectures in some strange places, but this venue is a new one. Scott Hanselman has this photo from a sports arena converted  into a lecture hall.

8230;looking around the room, more people are watching the twitter screen than are listening to Arthur’s great preso. So have the twitter display ready to go (use the remote of the datashow projecter to hide the screen) and turn it on just when you want it. In one of the panels I attended they had the breakout screen projecting a twitter search feed ([link] To make it work the moderator made up a conference room tag #PR08 and the people sitting Twitter is now a reality at many conferences. Now the question is: should you display a live twitter stream on a large

Tufte’s Presentation Tips Show up early Something good is bound to happen—if there’s no need to fix a mechanical problem or resolve a room conflict, you can always mingle with the audience. How to start --Clearly tell the audience: What the problem is, who cares, and what your solution is. --Notes on the stumble-bum technique (a high-risk approach): Tufte described a talk given by a humble high school math teacher to a lecture hall full of mathematics professors. This also gets others motivated. There must be a better way than using the overhead

New technologies are employed to make attentive the naturally distracted minds of youth, but they are rarely employed to formulate the relationship between structures — or better, choreographies — of attention and the distracted subjects they seek to engage. 8 We take this choreographic project as our central pedagogical task. The present essay grows out of a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities where we are studying the integration methods of remote participation and digital backchannels into live scholarly events ( [link] ). home submissions about dhq dhq people contact Spring 2009: v3 n2 Current Issue Previous Issues Winter 2009: v3 n1 Summer 2008: v2 n1 Summer 2007: v1 n2 Spring 2007: v1 n1 Indexes Title Author ISSN 1938-4122 Announcements Call for Reviewers Call for Submissions DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly Spring 2009 Volume 3 Number 2 v3:n2 >>  |  Print Article  |  Taporware Tools List Words Find Text Collocation Designing Choreographies for the "New

As with all things, there was room for improvement (too much dependence on prepared text) but all in all, a very impressive performance on what is going to be a fascinating process.  Tags: Message Development Public Speaking Uncategorized communication skills democrats first latina justice housing project judge sotomayor justice souter latina nominee President Obama republicans scotus sonia sotomayer sonia sotomayor sotomayor public speaking sotomayor speech souter south bronx united state court of appeal Click here to view the embedded video. A

Shrink the room Imagine that the person you’re looking at is the only person in the room. lighthouse presenter goes systematically around the room. Related posts: Conversational Presenting How to project your voice Business presentations – don’t take performance too far ...Tags: Even a newbie at public speaking knows they should make eye contact. But the term eye contact is rather vague.

Throughout the keynote, the Twitter stream was projected on the screen along with the presenter's slides. Particularly when the Twitter stream is projected for all in the room to see, most attendees want their tweets to be intelligent and germain rather than silly or off-topic. More challenging in terms of distraction is projecting the Twitter stream on the screen behind you and knowing that electronic dialogue is going on while you are talking. With the explosion in popularity of microblogging tools like Twitter , presenters are now faced with the possibility, or even likelihood, that some members of their audience will be tweeting (posting on Twitter) during the presentation.

Now these notes are going digital on Twitter or via conference-provided chat rooms. But the conversation was roaring through the room via twitter. asked questions the audience was asking, and I immediately felt the tenor of the room shift towards my favor. On the other hand, when I see people taking notes (manually or with Pistachio Micro sharing. Macro results. HOME TOUCHBASE BLOG Your Suggestions? SERVICES Market Engagement Enterprise 2.0 Speaking and more

In so doing, they may lose sight of the details that matter for the project they are currently working on.” He came into my room to hang out as I was getting ready for a busy day with the kids. (Let 0160;I’m therefore none too happy with the intrusion, and say, “I REALLY want to finish getting ready alone right now, please go wait in the family room.” @kellydecker back here this week, inspired to write another post.   “It’s not you…it’s me.”   Relationship wise, maybe you’ve been the receiver of that message, or in George

Your primary responsibility is to entertain a room full of people. It’s not scientific, but it feels about the same as an audience member seated towards the back of a large room with an 18-foot screen at the front. Elizabeth Gilbert ’s style is living-room-conversationly. 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.