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Lecturing Today at Bentley College

by Laura Fitton on April 28, 2008

I am lecturing twice today at Bentley College in Waltham, MA for Professor Mark Frydenberg’s IT101 course: Introduction to Information Technology. Mark is extraordinary in the degree to which he incorporates, teaches and uses web 2.0 tools (wikis, blogging, popfly mashups) in his class.

The morning class was delightful and of course, we live streamed the entire thing on Qik.com/pistachio

I told my Twitter followers to follow this link to remain abreast of the students’ conversations and remarks via Twitter during the class. It is just a www.tweetscan.com search for “pistachio” so that everyone can follow all of the replies together and see the students’ individual introductions. It kept us all on the same page. Fun.

Next class is in a few minutes, I’ll return later to embed the video… Follow us live (if chat doesn’t work, there is probably just a time lag on the upload) at www.Qik.com/pistachio.

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SAP Marketing Community Experiment

April 4, 2008

Next week 2,000 marketers at SAP will convene to learn and share marketing innovations. The Marketing Community Kickoff Meeting will feature: Seth Godin Ze Frank Dennis Howlett Zoli Erdos Ross Mayfield David Armano David Meerman Scott Laura “Pistachio” Fitton www.Unisfair.com’s virtual environment will 2,000 SAP marketers for the Marketing Community Kickoff I’m ecstatic to be [...]

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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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Kick it, don’t kiss it.

May 23, 2007

Read this blog and you’ll see a lot about audience + objective = message, what that means, and why it’s important for ALL presentations (from an outgoing voice message to a giant keynote). This post is about what that focus on the audience doesn’t mean. Putting the audience “first” is not pandering. You’re not up [...]

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Insanity.

May 18, 2007

Scott at Presentation Revolution offers this very true-funny post: “…after four years we still have not seen a drastic change in the way presentations are built, designed, and delivered today. The bottom line: most presenters are insane… “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Now, I [...]

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Good training should focus on achieving results…

May 4, 2007

Good training should focus on achieving results, often by personalizing the instruction. The training should ideally not end until business objectives are met. Since I teach presenting, for me this includes the objectives students need to go on to achieve with subsequent presentations. I don’t teach set programs by rote and I don’t teach to [...]

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