When use of the Web became popular, URLs started invading slide decks.  Sometimes Some presenters used them to launch demos of Web sites. The problem with putting URLs in your slides is that though the intent may be noble, the end result is the opposite of what was intended. On the second slide, we have a list of URLs.  The PowerPoint’s been around longer than the World Wide Web easily by a country mile.  When Sometimes they were inserted so the audience could write them down later, or if the slides were abused as handouts, the thought was they could be

Olivia Mitchell did an outstanding guest blog on Laura Fitton's Pistachio site, and the next day on Chris Spagnuolo's Edgehopper , wrapping up a busy week with her own summary post. If you have a group listening to a speaker (supposedly) and tweeting about the speaker’s 140 character sound bites (supposedly) and looking at the text and PowerPoints, and reading other Tweeter’s tweets, and looking up urls – chaos reigns in the mind. Business speakers (and leaders, keynoters, politicians, Pastors and, well, everyone…) need to be aware that like it or not, Twitter is coming to their speaking experience. Be Aware, and Beware!

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Use similes (”this site is eBay for seniors”). Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School (tags: presentation speaking communication productivity language organisation) This entry was written by admin and posted on November 18, 2007 at 8:26 am and filed under Url. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. « links for 2007-11-16 [...] Presentation Tips from a Pro « 1855 November 17th, 2007 11:29 DarrenBarefoot.com Contact Jobs Speaking About Home September 3rd, 2007 Filed under: Mixed Bag , Technology , The Arts 71 Comments » Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School An Unlikely Education I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, and was inspired to get it done by Merlin Mann’s recent piece about improving his use of PowerPoint.

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Rather than banning laptops and phones from the lecture hall and the classroom, we aim to ask what precisely they have on offer for these settings understood as performative sites, as well as for a culture that equates individual attentional behavior with intellectual and moral aptitude. In an industrial society, the scarce resources are goods and services. Indeed, our central concern is not about technology at all, but is instead about more stable and enduring features of human performative practice that enter into and shape the physical and symbolic sites of teaching

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Let's say you are giving a presentation on the benefits of using social media and you want to know which sites attendees use on a regular basis. 5 Ways to Use Twitter During a Presentation Quote URL - A Twitter Tool to Quote, Save and Publish Tweets Change the Context to Use Twitter Most Effectively ...Tags: In a previous post, I explored  common concerns about Twitter usage in presentations and concluded that Twitter offers many benefits in terms of audience involvement and engagement. However, seeing the benefits of using Twitter and being able to incorporate