Comments on: Don’t Be A Sucky Presenter (via NewComBizz) http://www.wiseelephant.com/blog/2010/02/19/dont-be-a-sucky-presenter-via-newcombizz/ Get your stuff together, amplify it, get it moving Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:54:38 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jason Moriber http://www.wiseelephant.com/blog/2010/02/19/dont-be-a-sucky-presenter-via-newcombizz/comment-page-1/#comment-30431 Jason Moriber Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:35:01 +0000 http://blog.wiseelephant.com/?p=3870#comment-30431 Thank you Ben for seconding the notion(s). Always appreciated. -Jason Thank you Ben for seconding the notion(s). Always appreciated.

-Jason

]]> By: Ben Kunz http://www.wiseelephant.com/blog/2010/02/19/dont-be-a-sucky-presenter-via-newcombizz/comment-page-1/#comment-30429 Ben Kunz Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:35:11 +0000 http://blog.wiseelephant.com/?p=3870#comment-30429 Amazing how so few of us follow this advice. We labor over presentations going into a cocoonish thought-bubble -- what can we say, what linear argument will we make, no one speak up because we're presenting a thesis *at* you that is perfect. I saw a few presentations go off the rails at SXSW. The mistakes were various: a crowdsourcing panel was slow and laborious and put up simple slides showing Wikipedia definitions of "crowdsourcing" and the audience snoozed. A questioner on stage with Ev Williams tossed softballs and talked about his own blog and the crowd walked for the exits. Too slow, too stupid, too egocentric, too frothy. The problem is there are potentially hundreds of ways to go wrong. What I like best about your advice is how to pack a chute -- how to shift gears or find another path forward when the audience begins to zone out. We rarely break stride, but that's what's needed after a misstep. Thanks, Jason. Amazing how so few of us follow this advice. We labor over presentations going into a cocoonish thought-bubble — what can we say, what linear argument will we make, no one speak up because we’re presenting a thesis *at* you that is perfect.

I saw a few presentations go off the rails at SXSW. The mistakes were various: a crowdsourcing panel was slow and laborious and put up simple slides showing Wikipedia definitions of “crowdsourcing” and the audience snoozed. A questioner on stage with Ev Williams tossed softballs and talked about his own blog and the crowd walked for the exits. Too slow, too stupid, too egocentric, too frothy.

The problem is there are potentially hundreds of ways to go wrong. What I like best about your advice is how to pack a chute — how to shift gears or find another path forward when the audience begins to zone out.

We rarely break stride, but that’s what’s needed after a misstep.

Thanks, Jason.

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