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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Chat Room
Everybody is familiar with chat rooms because they have been around for what seems like forever. In a way, Twitter really emulates a lot of the behaviors of the classic chat room, except in a more asynchronous way. What the chat room afforded us was a live, synchronous discussion that could also be displayed on Nancy’s screen in front of the entire audience.
Last month Nancy Duarte spoke at Web2.0 Expo and it was a huge success.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
The communications business is changing. Press release documents are becoming a thing of the past, because the medium is no longer the message. The relationship between the communications industry and technology needs to be shaken up. Or stirred.
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Friday, February 6, 2009
The marvelous social media sommelier Gary Vaynerchuk gives us an excellent 3 minute video outlining the necessity of "working the room" versus "giving a presentation." If you're still "giving presentations" -- note the distinction. In the age of social media, with blogs and sites like Twitter, FaceBook, YouTube -- merely giving a presentation is less effective than "working the room". For years, brands became accustomed to "giving presentations" and "controlling" the message. The video you see above is also a fine example of how an audience can talk back.
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Friday, December 7, 2007
I've found that by giving everyone in the room the same level of energy - and not taking it personally when someone doesn't appear to be paying attention - I still manage to reach those who seem unreachable. Rhett Laubach posted a nice overview of how to read your audience members and how best to connect with them, based on their motivations for being there. "Hostage Hostage Harriet" is particularly challenging; here's an excerpt: "I am here because I was forced to be here.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
They’ve used curtains to build up a “room” on the bleachers of this part of the stadium. That acts as an overflow room, and there’s people sitting out there also. It’s a very clever way to do it, and they’ve set up six different track rooms, all like this, around the stadium.
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.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Unfortunately, this occurs every minute of every day in every meeting room, conference room, board room, press conference and trial, and the damage it does to the ability to get a point across or accomplish what you are trying to accomplish is staggering. If you are requesting funding from a VC for $15 million do you want the conversation that follows when you leave the room to be about your presentation or your repeated use of “ahhh?” President Obama’s Press Conference has just concluded and a lot of questions have been asked and answered. There
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
I’m darn good at selling at the back of the room. Just put a box in the back of the room at your table and mention that you’ll be at the table if anyone wants to take the book home with them it will be 20 bucks (or some round number). Tags: Books Guest Posts Speaking sales back of room sale Guest post by Tom Antion
In fact, just this month I did three speaking engagements at multi speaker events and I outsold all the other speakers put together.
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Saturday, February 6, 2010
You are used to people laughing, nodding, and being engaged, but this room is set with rounds of 8 and people’s backs are to you. How do you specify and educate meeting planners to set the room to get more engagement from the audience? How can the seating setup affect back-of-the-room sales?
with Paul O. Radde, PhD
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Tags: Uncategorized venues / room Redfin recently hosted a free event called The Naked Truth , for tech entrepreneurs. The event was held at the normally very cool Seattle Sculpture Park . The problem is the amphitheater on the grounds creates some odd problems for public speaking.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
TMBG: I'd say the main difference for us as artists is that the kids are a little bit of a tougher room. Laughs.] For some of them, you're just what's going on in the room, and they're not all that worried about it being a successful show. Download audio here. We enjoyed a lively show by They Might Be Giants yesterday afternoon. What we didn't realize when we bought our tickets was that it was a family show promoting their latest children's album, " Here Comes Science " (4:00 did seem a little early for a start time).
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