www.nickhodge.com

Hyper­em­power­ment. The theme of Mark Pesce’s open­ing key­note at Microsoft Australia’s ReMIX 2008, ‘Only Connect’

Now avail­able in video form, and tex­tual form.

Aus­tralian ReMIX08 is here! Sydney is first today. Mel­bourne in two days time.

And the little Quok­kas will make a small appear­ance in the the key­note. Watch closely, or you will miss them!

Fol­low me on twit­ter, or the hashtag #aure­mix for all the news if you are out there in the intarwebs.

If you are attend­ing, ensure you intro­duce yourself.

Every quokka loves a new laptop. Even when the laptop is twice your weight, height and width.

DG gets into the Live Mesh craze.

DG hires a wizened LOLCODE con­tractor to com­plete the low-level code for a new web site.

Credit: Dar­ren Sharp

This year’s key­note speaker at Australia’s second ReMIX is Mark Pesce. Like LOLCODE, Mark has his own, well deserved Wiki­pe­dia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pesce

Aus­trali­ans in the inter­net com­munity would recog­nise Mark from his copi­ous writ­ings on free­dom, email, free/meshed wire­less. He is a thought leader amongst thought lead­ers in this web-centric world.

I’ve seen Mark present at vari­ous con­fer­ences through 2007, and have also enjoyed his writ­ings. At ReMIX, Mark will be elev­at­ing our ima­gin­a­tions to a higher plane: what may this highly con­nec­ted future look like?

Microsoft know Mark is going to provide some thought pro­vok­ing insights.

 

DG is get­ting his Developer track ready for the second Aus­tralian ReMIX. Fueled by lam­ing­tons and Quokka-Cola, there is a storm of XAML building.

Seats are going fast! Book today!

(photo by JJ)

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.

Who does DG look up to in the world?