Eye contact with your audience is vital because it reinforces your sincerity. If you are nervous, choose the most responsive, supportive faces. If the audience is large, focus on three or four people and maintain eye contact with them.
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I have to say I am fascinated by what people scrawl on toilet wells. It is a tiny picture of lives and values and philosophies often wholly different to mine, or maybe expressing my thoughts with a wit I will never possess. I’m not surprised that study of toilet graffiti is old and taken very seriously. But there’s humour there are well. Fun, then to find his article and its links to further sites on the internet.
Latrinalia – Learning From the Scrawls in the Bathroom
Bathroom Graffiti Taken to Another Level
— – It’s the one private moment one has when out in public.
The visit to the latrine, the bathroom, the commode is a time for eureka moments, private thoughts, emptying of contents, and fixing of the unruly hair or smudged mascara as well as a time for many people to scrawl their deep thoughts on bathroom walls.
“It’s a time when you are able to vent and be open,” said Alex Kotch, a Brown University senior who put together a sound installation called “No one will see us.”
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“We are all designers,” says Tom Peters. “Presentation of a financial report is as much a ‘design thing’ as is the creation of a sexy-looking product.” Presentation design is worthy of our “extreme obsessive study,” as Peters says,
If online education can deliver education to people cheaply and easily, then we have a chance to redress the balance in our world.
(And on a personal note, I am fascinated by the global communities we form when we share learning online. The social and cultural implications in the long-term are immense.)
“Seven of the world’s largest distance education universities—where students and faculty alike all use some form of computer-assisted learning—are located in developing countries. For these communities, educational resources available via the Internet can offer cutting-edge applications of cyberspace. Yet, roadblocks—from inadequate national communications infrastructures to teachers reluctant to adapt to e-learning—exist for the full success of online education for higher education. Meanwhile, the use of online delivery in corporate training is predicted to overtake higher education usage in developing countries, becoming an estimated $150 billion industry by 2025. This Special Report looks at lessons learned, innovations that work, and the future of ICT in education for developing countries.”
Adding Golf To Your Topic — Even if you’re not a golferI’m not a golfer, but I can tell you one thing for sure. Manypeople in your audiences are nuts over golf.I’ve seen some speakers do their entire presentation using a golfmetaphor. They would say things like, “In golf if your swing isoff, you’ll hit the ball into the woods . . . just like if yourleadership technique is off you’ll be in the “rough” .. . and alot more is at stake than just a bad scorecard.” etc.I’ve seen speakers carry their golf bag on stage and pull outsome clubs just to have something to do with their hands.I’ve seen speakers get audience members on stage to have aputting contest.I’ve seen one speaker at a resort ride into his speech on a golfcart.You don’t even have to like golf to add a little bit about golfto your speeches. I tease the golfers in the audience about alltheir crazy gadgets.
Tom Antion, Publisher “Great Speaking”http://www.GolfArticles.net
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“I’ve said it before here and here, and I’ll say it again. Your PowerPoint file is not your presentation; what you say before an audience is your presentation. (Exception: if it’s a self-running presentation at a kiosk, it’s your presentation, but then your slides need to be much more complete to be effective.)
Therefore, before or after you create your slides, you still need to write your presentation.
If you create your slides first and then your presentation, expect that you’ll find that the logic of your content will lead you to change (and improve) the organization of your slides.”
This post from Zen Presentations inspired me with its focus on the power of simplicity.
It evaluates the use of PowerPoint by Microsoft executives and concludes …
“Microsoft says the sky’s the limit for us consumers. Work can be creative. We can help. I want to believe them. Really I do. Yet, when given the opportunity to show how one of their most visible products can actually be used practically and harmoniously to help their own speakers present important ideas, they revert back to PowerPoint-as-usual. Uninspiring…and typical.” Read the whole blog post
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“One of the paradoxes of modern life is we’re too busy to learn to do things that would make us less busy and more productive.”
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“It may not be news that PowerPoint is becoming more common in courtrooms today, but it is news when someone uses it exceptionally well. Attorney W. Mark Lanier presented his closing arguments Monday in a Vioxx trial in New Jersey, and the presentation generated extensive coverage by the Associated Press, New York Times, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. “
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