The ‘no notes’ illusion Manufacturers of overhead projectors used to proclaim yet another alleged benefit of the acetate revolution: with our machines, you can speak without having to use any notes. Reasons why it became entrenched included the following (pp. This was an extraordinary claim on two counts. billion a year.

They don’t worry if the projector breaks. Still out of town! Enjoy this post about what a dog can teach you about public speaking! My dog Balou is a 60-pound, black-lab mix that we adopted at a PetSmart rescue day last year in Sandy Springs, Georgia. And if he could only talk and write on a flip chart, I’m sure he’d be a great public speaker.

Instead of occasionally moving toward the audience to establish a personal connection, speakers usually move back and forth between the podium or projector and the screen in a weirdly hypnotic, solipsistic form of what could be called presentational dance – the Power Point triangle of Death. They might as well be talking to themselves.