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presentation skills

Twittering about presentations

January 27, 2008

You might think presentations answer “What is it?” Nope. The good ones answer “What does it do?” and “What does that matter?” (credit to @JNSwanson: and great ones answer “What does that matter to me?”) What is emotionally moving and significant about your work? product? ideas? company? message?

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One of the Best from One of the Best. Ever.

January 22, 2008

Financial Aid Podcast Daily Free MP3 Internet Radio » Martin Luther King Jr. I Have A Dream Speech Complete audio and text of King’s famous speech, courtesy of Christopher Penn and the Financial Aid Podcast Or, watch this full-length video from YouTube: I hope you had a chance today to reflect on the power of [...]

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Attention and Comprehension

January 20, 2008

Nice tidbit from The Tipping Point, Sesame Street researchers noticed how closely attention was tied to comprehension. Whenever the program got confusing, contentious or *flashy just for flashy’s sake, attention wandered. When the children understood what was going on, they paid rapt attention. Now, anyone who had to read long, difficult academic papers in college [...]

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Personal Ballast

January 17, 2008

Ballast. The weight that rights your boat when it gets knocked over. Ballast is great. It prevents capsizing. Snaps the boat back upright after something knocks it down. Did you ever have a Weeble toy? Ballast. Want the physics? Ballast is weight as deep and low in the hull of the ship as possible and [...]

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Isabel Allende at TED Talks

January 7, 2008

TED | Talks | Isabel Allende: Tales of passion (video) PLEASE watch this for two reasons: 1) Most of all, just, wow. Listen and reflect on the power of stories, the strength of passion and the need to change the world. Listening to this called me to action on the Nine Million children living as [...]

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Speaking on Social Media for PRSA Boston

January 3, 2008

“Beyond Blogging: PR and Today’s Social Media Revolution” Tech PR Gems: Panelists for next week’s PRSA event. Hope Boston area folks will come out for this evening of Social Media discussions (panel and breakouts) with: Mike Prosceno, Vice President, Communications, SAP Ian Lamont, Senior Editor, New Media, Computerworld Lois Kelly, Partner, Foghound Communication Laura Fitton, [...]

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New Year’s Resolution: Make Presentations Rock More

December 31, 2007

Make your team more influential and successful in 2008 by improving how they present their ideas. Providing tools, experiences and motivation to communicate more effectively will get more business accomplished. Here are 10 basic things you can do to keep this resolution and help your team. 1. Begin at the beginning: Better explain each project [...]

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Heh heh

December 29, 2007

The Onion was a little late to the party coming up with Gore Wins Oscar, Nobel Peace Prize for Slide-Show Presentation. Quips about that hit Twitter when the Peace Prize was announced. But they do it in that wonderful way of theirs… “The Nobel Committee was deeply moved by Mr. Gore’s passion for making a [...]

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Let’s Talk Success: BNCA in Pune, India

December 17, 2007

I presented to BNCA, a women’s architecture college in Pune, India in November. The client wanted their female students to feel more comfortable voicing their opinions and ideas, presenting their work and even interacting with their instructors. A big challenge was to connect “skill at presenting” to all areas of their lives, since realistically, not [...]

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Command and Control is Dead. Long Live Converse!

November 23, 2007

Found in Anne Truit Zelenka’s links: But Miss, they’re not listening to me Get your audiences thinking. Give them an active role in your presentation. Make them want to do more, learn more, get their questions answered. They don’t owe you attention, you owe them useful, relevant content. We have to earn the respect of [...]

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