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 our peers. But remember, in a networked society, everyone is a peer. Your professors. Your children. Your subordinates. Your bosses.
Everyone’s a peer.
Live with it.
There’s also an intriguing generational contrast between “surreptitious” Backberry users pretending to pay attention, vs multi-taskers on laptops (and BBs) who don’t look like they’re listening but may be really engaged with notes, searches, etc. Not sure how universally it plays out, but interesting to consider.
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Hi – Really enjoyed your prezo at Pubcon today. It was very different than other presenters – and much more engaging. I do a lot of presentations for my tech role – and would like to move more to your style (ie not just bullets running down a page).
You also inspired me to learn a lot more about Twitter.
andy