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The vast majority of the presentations I listen to are essentially passive, at least from the audience’s perspective. All I am expected to do is sit and listen. Now you may be saying that’s all well and good for a small audience but I speak to groups of 50, 100 or even 1000. Well I can tell you that it is possible to get audience participation and movement even in large groups. Presenters – dare you get your audience to move? MORE
Every public speaker dreams of being able to engage their audience completely. One of the best ways to get engagement is via audience participation. Not long ago I posted some ideas under the title of Practical Audience Engagement Ideas. MORE
A good or effective presentation, from the point of few of the audience, being one where the audience was engaged and learned something, but also was motivated, or inspired, etc. This semester I''m teaching three classes on presentation for undergraduates at my university in Japan. MORE
Audience participation. And, not every idea will be appropriate for every audience or occasion. Delivery audience Communication creativity J. One of the many public speaking resources that I consult regularly is an email newsletter from J. Gamache , an internationally acclaimed bilingual (French and English) speaker who finished 3rd in the 2001 Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking. . In a recent email , J. MORE
At this stage of my speaking, I didn’t care about connecting with the audience. I noticed that there was an audience out there – though I still didn’t know what to do about them. Stage 3: Hello audience. 7 ways to keep audience attention during your presentation. MORE
Last week I delivered a webinar “How to plan an Audience-friendly Presentation&# as part of Ellen Finkelstein’s Outstanding Presentations Workshop. The message of my presentation was “To create an audience-friendly presentation, use a planner&# (pictured right). MORE
Last week I delivered a webinar “How to plan an Audience-friendly Presentation&# as part of Ellen Finkelstein’s Outstanding Presentations Workshop. The message of my presentation was “To create an audience-friendly presentation, use a planner&# (pictured right). MORE
Yesterday I had a skype conversation with Twitter follower Todd (@TJList) on how to include audience participation in a presentation. He’s presenting on getting through the economic downturn to an audience of small business owners. First, your audience has to trust you. MORE
Winging it generally comes across to the audience as disorganized rambling chaos. My audience doesn’t seem to like it as much. Like the entire audience was eating out of my hands. It feels like the performers or speaker are creating something new and special for their audience. MORE
Your audience are adults. If their behavior is not distracting or annoying other people in the audience it’s up to them whether they pay attention or not, and how they pay attention. He says to his audience: “Here’s a deal. Tags: Audience MORE
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. But that's not as engaging for participants, you'll likely get more detail in a tweet and the tweets will be archived, allowing you to refer back to them. You could even ask for a volunteer from the audience. MORE
At this stage of my speaking, I didn’t care about connecting with the audience. I noticed that there was an audience out there – though I still didn’t know what to do about them. Stage 3: Hello audience. 7 ways to keep audience attention during your presentation. MORE
What should the audience do? Why should the audience care? Some text is fine, but also use images, video, stories, props, demonstrations, audience participation and other creative ideas to make your presentation stand out. Pablo Picasso. MORE
It’s like resetting the audience’s attention meter to zero. It’s a shift from a one-way presentation to a two-way dialog between you and the audience. See this post on involving the audience in particular. Every type of presentation has its own challenges. MORE
Carmen created a lively webinar by inviting lots of audience participation via the chat box. In other words, put your attention on the audience more than on the presentation. The webinar audience viewed the many examples of wabi sabi images and commented on them. MORE
Our very own diva, Cassidy Live performers know that the best way to get the audience's engagement is to include them in the show, whether it's making them feel like a rock star when they sing along, asking them questions that they can answer with a cheer, or bringing them onstage to participate. MORE
Presentation expert Clif Atkinson tells a great story about a 2009 education conference where two speakers got very different reactions from their audiences. All this to say that audience participation isn’t necessarily a good thing. MORE
We’ve known for some time that we need to capture our audience’s attention quickly and work hard to keep it by presenting our information in an engaging manner. Use closed and open ended questions to generate real participation. MORE
This is the moment for audience participation. Don’t however, just drop this question onto your unsuspecting audience. by Peter Paskale. MORE
In our world of constant and assorted stimuli, audiences often don''t have the patience or the motivation to listen to a presenter speak continuously for 30, 45, 60 minutes in the same format. Dialogue and discussion are more beneficial to an audience than listening to a talking head. MORE
In Hannah's case, there was no opportunity for audience interaction, but in a typical presentation setting when speaking on a difficult topic, you must always be prepared for hecklers and for challenging or hostile questions. Most important, never judge your audience for not "getting it." MORE
Audience participation didn’t use to scale easily beyond a small group. Now, the backchannel allows every audience member, whatever the size of the group, to be an active participant. The advent of the backchannel is a tremendous opportunity for presenters. MORE
Depending on the size of your group, and especially when you're conducting a workshop or longer training, you will want to encourage participation from your audience. There are always some participants who participate more and some who participate less. MORE
Pantomimes, or Pantos for short, usually incorporate singing, dancing, buffoonery, slapstick, cross-dressing, topical references, audience participation, and mild sexual innuendo. Today is Panto Day! MORE
Even if you are already an engaging presenter, add more audience participation. Tags: audience in public speaking public speaking audience It will help the people you’re talking to remember more of your content. Here are some ways to add variety and help people remember the important points that you are trying to make. They are especially effective in a learning or problem-solving situation. MORE
Winging it generally comes across to the audience as disorganized rambling chaos. My audience doesn’t seem to like it as much. Like the entire audience was eating out of my hands. It feels like the performers or speaker are creating something new and special for their audience. MORE
Last week I delivered a webinar “How to plan an Audience-friendly Presentation&# as part of Ellen Finkelstein’s Outstanding Presentations Workshop. The message of my presentation was “To create an audience-friendly presentation, use a planner&# (pictured right). MORE
Our very own diva, Cassidy Live performers know that the best way to get the audience's engagement is to include them in the show, whether it's making them feel like a rock star when they sing along, asking them questions that they can answer with a cheer, or bringing them onstage to participate. MORE
In fact, he went beyond that, making it a performance he could only give on that night, in that venue, to that audience. Audience Participation. His message was 'keep me' - and the audience made it impossible for LA Reid to do anything but. I hate rap. Always have. MORE
They don’t care about themselves – they care about their audience, and they care passionately. But most important they cared about their message and about us as an audience. Then after 10 minutes of speaking he turned it over to Q&A – this is with an audience of two thousand people. MORE
Now the question is: should you display a live twitter stream on a large screen so that everyone (not just the tweeters) in the audience can see it? Which is not to say that everyone found the Twitterfall display useful: some participants, for example, did find the display distracting. MORE
People practiced their songs and skits; they worked on their timing and audience participation. The DeFinis-Lydon first annual Easter Brunch and Talent Show was a huge success! On Easter Sunday a family style version of American Idol (minus the crusty Simon Cowell) was served up by our guests who ranged in age from sixteen to eighty-five. MORE
Your audience’s attention will fade over time unless you take specific steps to keep them engaged. Here’s what happened – the lecturer stumbled upon the audience’s Attention Reset Button. So that’s what you need to do when you’re losing your audience. Audience MORE
Audience polling Easily done to get a quick poll of the audience. Tell stories These involve your audiences imagination, sense of humour and allows them to connect your world with theirs. Ask questions of the audience Easy to do in smaller groups, when training, for example. MORE
Tags: Opinion Political Speeches Presentation Skills Public Speaking Rhetorical Devices Scripting Your Speech Speech Writing Uncategorized Audience Involvement Audience Participation Public Speaking Tips MORE
He brings to the audience participants his successes and failures with humor and professionalism allowing them to learn while enjoying their invested time. MORE
If you’ve made a presentation to an online audience you’ve no doubt noticed that connecting with and engaging that audience can be challenging. The beauty of an online presentation is that it’s built for two-way communication to allow you to easily interact with your audience. MORE
Sure, a couple of people on the panel made jokes here and there, and the audience laughed from time to time. Asking for audience participation is always good practice in a presentation, and it's good practice on a panel as well. MORE
Audience participation didn’t use to scale easily beyond a small group. Now, the backchannel allows every audience member, whatever the size of the group, to be an active participant. MORE
Last week I wrote about the challenge of the third era of presenting: the era of the audience. Kristin Arnold has written a provocative and intensely practical book Boring to Bravo on how to meet that challenge by encouraging audience participation. Tags: Audience MORE
With steps to take before, during and after your presentation, Mitchell creates a useful path that underscores what it takes to effectively engage a live (and remote) audience today. How to use Twitter and other backchannels to encourage audience participation. His book “ The backchannel: How audiences are using Twitter and social media and changing presentations forever&# is being released on 30 November and is available to preorder on Amazon now. MORE
As well as ideas for desk pieces, audience participation, etc. Well, I finally finished putting together my generic Late Night Comedy Writing packet. I finished it back in November, and now have a potential sample that I can tweak if I decide to look for Late Night writing jobs. I can thoroughly recommend buying a copy of late night comedy writer, Joe Toplyn’s book. Which is reviewed here: Comedy Writing for Late Night. MORE
One of the quickest ways to lose your audience is to pretend to want participation, but not really invite it. I love asking my audience questions. In a recent presentation, I asked my audience if they've ever regretting not speaking up when they had something to say. MORE
Anyone who reads this blog knows my viewpoint on PowerPoint in presentations: it's generally used as a crutch by most business presenters to make sure they remember what to say, rather than as a mechanism to add additional clarification and depth to the presentation content for the audience. MORE
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FEBRUARY 22, 2016
Every public speaker dreams of being able to engage their audience completely. One of the best ways to get engagement is via audience participation. Not long ago I posted some ideas under the title of Practical Audience Engagement Ideas.
Speaking about Presenting
AUGUST 17, 2010
Last week I wrote about the challenge of the third era of presenting: the era of the audience. Kristin Arnold has written a provocative and intensely practical book Boring to Bravo on how to meet that challenge by encouraging audience participation. Tags: Audience
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Speak Schmeak
OCTOBER 4, 2007
Depending on the size of your group, and especially when you're conducting a workshop or longer training, you will want to encourage participation from your audience. There are always some participants who participate more and some who participate less.
Speaking about Presenting
MARCH 28, 2009
Yesterday I had a skype conversation with Twitter follower Todd (@TJList) on how to include audience participation in a presentation. He’s presenting on getting through the economic downturn to an audience of small business owners. First, your audience has to trust you.
http://delicious.com/akarrer/prospeaker
MAY 1, 2009
Audience polling Easily done to get a quick poll of the audience. Tell stories These involve your audiences imagination, sense of humour and allows them to connect your world with theirs. Ask questions of the audience Easy to do in smaller groups, when training, for example.
Successful Speeches Blog
AUGUST 18, 2010
Tags: Opinion Political Speeches Presentation Skills Public Speaking Rhetorical Devices Scripting Your Speech Speech Writing Uncategorized Audience Involvement Audience Participation Public Speaking Tips
Speak and Deliver
OCTOBER 26, 2011
In fact, he went beyond that, making it a performance he could only give on that night, in that venue, to that audience. Audience Participation. His message was 'keep me' - and the audience made it impossible for LA Reid to do anything but. I hate rap. Always have.
Professionally Speaking...
MAY 24, 2013
In our world of constant and assorted stimuli, audiences often don''t have the patience or the motivation to listen to a presenter speak continuously for 30, 45, 60 minutes in the same format. Dialogue and discussion are more beneficial to an audience than listening to a talking head.
Speaking about Presenting
FEBRUARY 5, 2011
At this stage of my speaking, I didn’t care about connecting with the audience. I noticed that there was an audience out there – though I still didn’t know what to do about them. Stage 3: Hello audience. 7 ways to keep audience attention during your presentation.
PowerPoint Tips
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
Carmen created a lively webinar by inviting lots of audience participation via the chat box. In other words, put your attention on the audience more than on the presentation. The webinar audience viewed the many examples of wabi sabi images and commented on them.
Professionally Speaking...
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
Anyone who reads this blog knows my viewpoint on PowerPoint in presentations: it's generally used as a crutch by most business presenters to make sure they remember what to say, rather than as a mechanism to add additional clarification and depth to the presentation content for the audience.
Speaking about Presenting
OCTOBER 1, 2010
Last week I delivered a webinar “How to plan an Audience-friendly Presentation&# as part of Ellen Finkelstein’s Outstanding Presentations Workshop. The message of my presentation was “To create an audience-friendly presentation, use a planner&# (pictured right).
Speaking about Presenting
FEBRUARY 5, 2011
At this stage of my speaking, I didn’t care about connecting with the audience. I noticed that there was an audience out there – though I still didn’t know what to do about them. Stage 3: Hello audience. 7 ways to keep audience attention during your presentation.
Speaking about Presenting
OCTOBER 1, 2010
Last week I delivered a webinar “How to plan an Audience-friendly Presentation&# as part of Ellen Finkelstein’s Outstanding Presentations Workshop. The message of my presentation was “To create an audience-friendly presentation, use a planner&# (pictured right).
Professionally Speaking...
JANUARY 5, 2016
We’ve known for some time that we need to capture our audience’s attention quickly and work hard to keep it by presenting our information in an engaging manner. Use closed and open ended questions to generate real participation.
Speak Schmeak
JULY 3, 2012
Our very own diva, Cassidy Live performers know that the best way to get the audience's engagement is to include them in the show, whether it's making them feel like a rock star when they sing along, asking them questions that they can answer with a cheer, or bringing them onstage to participate.
Pivotal Public Speaking
SEPTEMBER 18, 2010
Even if you are already an engaging presenter, add more audience participation. Tags: audience in public speaking public speaking audience It will help the people you’re talking to remember more of your content. Here are some ways to add variety and help people remember the important points that you are trying to make. They are especially effective in a learning or problem-solving situation.
Speaking about Presenting
JUNE 6, 2011
Your audience’s attention will fade over time unless you take specific steps to keep them engaged. Here’s what happened – the lecturer stumbled upon the audience’s Attention Reset Button. So that’s what you need to do when you’re losing your audience. Audience
Speaking about Presenting
JANUARY 14, 2011
Winging it generally comes across to the audience as disorganized rambling chaos. My audience doesn’t seem to like it as much. Like the entire audience was eating out of my hands. It feels like the performers or speaker are creating something new and special for their audience.
Speaking about Presenting
OCTOBER 1, 2010
Last week I delivered a webinar “How to plan an Audience-friendly Presentation&# as part of Ellen Finkelstein’s Outstanding Presentations Workshop. The message of my presentation was “To create an audience-friendly presentation, use a planner&# (pictured right).
Speaking about Presenting
JANUARY 14, 2011
Winging it generally comes across to the audience as disorganized rambling chaos. My audience doesn’t seem to like it as much. Like the entire audience was eating out of my hands. It feels like the performers or speaker are creating something new and special for their audience.
Speak Schmeak
JULY 3, 2012
Our very own diva, Cassidy Live performers know that the best way to get the audience's engagement is to include them in the show, whether it's making them feel like a rock star when they sing along, asking them questions that they can answer with a cheer, or bringing them onstage to participate.
Manner of Speaking
OCTOBER 30, 2012
What should the audience do? Why should the audience care? Some text is fine, but also use images, video, stories, props, demonstrations, audience participation and other creative ideas to make your presentation stand out. Pablo Picasso.
Speaking about Presenting
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
With steps to take before, during and after your presentation, Mitchell creates a useful path that underscores what it takes to effectively engage a live (and remote) audience today. How to use Twitter and other backchannels to encourage audience participation. His book “ The backchannel: How audiences are using Twitter and social media and changing presentations forever&# is being released on 30 November and is available to preorder on Amazon now.
The Presenter's Blog
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
This is the moment for audience participation. Don’t however, just drop this question onto your unsuspecting audience. by Peter Paskale.
Presentation Zen
APRIL 16, 2014
A good or effective presentation, from the point of few of the audience, being one where the audience was engaged and learned something, but also was motivated, or inspired, etc. This semester I''m teaching three classes on presentation for undergraduates at my university in Japan.
Speaking about Presenting
MARCH 19, 2010
They don’t care about themselves – they care about their audience, and they care passionately. But most important they cared about their message and about us as an audience. Then after 10 minutes of speaking he turned it over to Q&A – this is with an audience of two thousand people.
Pro Humorist
DECEMBER 17, 2015
As well as ideas for desk pieces, audience participation, etc. Well, I finally finished putting together my generic Late Night Comedy Writing packet. I finished it back in November, and now have a potential sample that I can tweak if I decide to look for Late Night writing jobs. I can thoroughly recommend buying a copy of late night comedy writer, Joe Toplyn’s book. Which is reviewed here: Comedy Writing for Late Night.
Pro Humorist
DECEMBER 7, 2013
Pantomimes, or Pantos for short, usually incorporate singing, dancing, buffoonery, slapstick, cross-dressing, topical references, audience participation, and mild sexual innuendo. Today is Panto Day!
Manner of Speaking
MAY 4, 2011
Audience participation. And, not every idea will be appropriate for every audience or occasion. Delivery audience Communication creativity J. One of the many public speaking resources that I consult regularly is an email newsletter from J. Gamache , an internationally acclaimed bilingual (French and English) speaker who finished 3rd in the 2001 Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking. . In a recent email , J.
Speaking about Presenting
OCTOBER 27, 2009
Audience participation didn’t use to scale easily beyond a small group. Now, the backchannel allows every audience member, whatever the size of the group, to be an active participant. The advent of the backchannel is a tremendous opportunity for presenters.
Speak Schmeak
MARCH 29, 2012
Sure, a couple of people on the panel made jokes here and there, and the audience laughed from time to time. Asking for audience participation is always good practice in a presentation, and it's good practice on a panel as well.
Speaking about Presenting
JANUARY 13, 2010
Your audience are adults. If their behavior is not distracting or annoying other people in the audience it’s up to them whether they pay attention or not, and how they pay attention. He says to his audience: “Here’s a deal. Tags: Audience
Speaking about Presenting
JANUARY 19, 2010
It’s like resetting the audience’s attention meter to zero. It’s a shift from a one-way presentation to a two-way dialog between you and the audience. See this post on involving the audience in particular. Every type of presentation has its own challenges.
Professionally Speaking...
NOVEMBER 12, 2010
If you’ve made a presentation to an online audience you’ve no doubt noticed that connecting with and engaging that audience can be challenging. The beauty of an online presentation is that it’s built for two-way communication to allow you to easily interact with your audience.
Speak Schmeak
FEBRUARY 10, 2012
One of the quickest ways to lose your audience is to pretend to want participation, but not really invite it. I love asking my audience questions. In a recent presentation, I asked my audience if they've ever regretting not speaking up when they had something to say.
Speaking about Presenting
OCTOBER 27, 2009
Audience participation didn’t use to scale easily beyond a small group. Now, the backchannel allows every audience member, whatever the size of the group, to be an active participant.
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
MAY 27, 2010
He brings to the audience participants his successes and failures with humor and professionalism allowing them to learn while enjoying their invested time.
Professionally Speaking...
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
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. But that's not as engaging for participants, you'll likely get more detail in a tweet and the tweets will be archived, allowing you to refer back to them. You could even ask for a volunteer from the audience.
Speaking about Presenting
MAY 20, 2009
Now the question is: should you display a live twitter stream on a large screen so that everyone (not just the tweeters) in the audience can see it? Which is not to say that everyone found the Twitterfall display useful: some participants, for example, did find the display distracting.
Duarte Blog
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Presentation expert Clif Atkinson tells a great story about a 2009 education conference where two speakers got very different reactions from their audiences. All this to say that audience participation isn’t necessarily a good thing.
DeFinis Communications
APRIL 7, 2010
People practiced their songs and skits; they worked on their timing and audience participation. The DeFinis-Lydon first annual Easter Brunch and Talent Show was a huge success! On Easter Sunday a family style version of American Idol (minus the crusty Simon Cowell) was served up by our guests who ranged in age from sixteen to eighty-five.
Speak Schmeak
MARCH 25, 2009
In Hannah's case, there was no opportunity for audience interaction, but in a typical presentation setting when speaking on a difficult topic, you must always be prepared for hecklers and for challenging or hostile questions. Most important, never judge your audience for not "getting it."
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