Using Web conferencing is simple, like logging into a Web site. Tags: Presentation skills virtual presentation web seminar webcast webina This is a guest post by Roger Courville. You can find out more about Roger in his bio at the end of this post. Web seminars (AKA “webinars” or “webcasts”) are online seminars or presentations used to synchronously engage remote

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Who listens: Listening in doesn't require being in the room anymore, thanks to the backchannel on Twitter and similar sites. Tags: presentation skills speaker training social media public speaking tip Public speaking comes with a lot of assumptions baked into it--forms, formats and formalities that have been used over and over again for centuries. Here's the basic recipe: Someone, the expert, strides to the front, gets introduced, stands behind a lectern on a raised platform and speaks for 30 minutes to an hour, perhaps taking a few audience questions at the end, but only if time permits.

Tags: public speaking membership site Tom Antion public speaking presentation skills Tom Antion public speaking tom antion busines I learned a great tip, at the recent National Speakers Association convention while standing around talking shop in the hotel lobby. John Meluso, spent some time with me and noted that I was not showing any vulnerability at all near the beginning of my program.

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It is part of some work I am doing with a presentation skills expert and we are trying to show her client that their slides could be much better than they are today. On the company's web site, they list these five features (along with others). I copied the photos from the web site onto the slide and instantly had a much more visually appealing slide. I was doing a slide makeover today for slides from a large corporation. The slide I chose was a typical five bullet point slide with some icons used as graphics below the bullet points.

Tags: presentation skills public speaking membership site Tom Antio I recently had one of the toughest speeches of my career. It was a three hour afternoon session on Martin Luther King day in Baltimore, Maryland. It was difficult for many reasons, but one of the most trying was that the audience consisted of all the employees of one company.

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Tags: presentation skills public speaking membership site Tom Antion public speakin Just today, I read two humorous articles that used a simple but effective technique: adopting another person's perspective or personality. In one, Kelly Ahlfeld wrote about "What your baby would tell you if he could talk," for "Parenting Magazine." In another, Dan