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Tips and Techniques for Presentations
By Nick Hodge | April 10, 2008
As presented at BarcampSydney3:
- Imagine the best presenter/presentation you have seen
- This person has practised more than once.
- plan for the worst case scenario (no projector, laptop nor audience)
- know audience, topic, environment
- If you are not comfortable wit the topic, don't present it
- Theatre
- projecting your voice: always stand
- volume levels: for any audience above 4 people, you need to turn it up a little bit
- breaking the fourth wall (that is, walk and talk into the audience)
- Use props.
- hot vs cold liquids: careful with water as it tightens the vocal chords
- emotional connection
- Emotional projection: like voice volume, you need to turn it up a few notches to make an impact
- tell stories: humans have brains wired to remember stories and retell them
- audience involvement: get someone on stage and break the fourth wall
- referential comedy
- appropriate humor (think of your audience) is always a good thing to incorporate
- to help: keep referencing one humourous comment/moment
- Dealing with the hecklers
- attention seekers (so give them some attention)
- or are pained by some experience (divert to post-presentation one on one)
- always leave your audience wanting more
Thanks, Sridhar, for the positive blog comments. 
Topics: auremix08, technology |
May 17th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
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May 19th, 2008 at 8:56 am
last time i heckled you i got a can of red bull and a microsoft dress shirt - i might just have to come to another presentation!