Body Movement - A few minutes before “taking the stage” –  “Waggle” (lateral movement) your jaw; bend forward and dangle your arms and let them shake; shake your hands over your head; utilize simple stretches and isometric stretches (more on that later) — all of these movements, when incorporated with proper breathing, warm the body, relax the mind and calm your nerves. Visualization – …it works.  Fear doesn’t just exist for the days and hours prior to an event. In Pt.

By staying seated, he lost the chance to use his body to create visual interest, to move into the audience and to create a sense of excitement. On Twitter, that would be a direct message--one that excludes all but the two people on stage, putting the audience in a passive role. Twitter's my favorite tool of all the social-media tools I use, and yet, in this case, it's less the backchannel than what happened on stage that did in No one would have bet on this, but by all accounts, yesterday's SXSW keynote by Twitter CEO Ev Williams flopped. Louis Gray sums up what happened

Act Natural! The problem with this advice is that you'll find yourself in a completely unnatural environment -- alone in front of a large group of people, lights shining in your face, a mike wire dangling from your lapel to your fanny, monster visual displays behind your back -- just exactly how do you go about acting "naturally" in such an unnatural situation? Telling a nervous neophyte speaker to "act naturally" on stage sets them up to flop. Say you're giving a live presentation to a large audience. And let's say this is not something you do on a regular basis.