Speaking. Ethics. How to present with Twitter and other backchannels : Speaking about Presenting. Presenting with Twitter can be challenging.
Just about every week a new story of a speaker getting roasted on Twitter makes waves in the blogosphere. I’ve written a free eBook “How to present with Twitter (and other backchannels)” to help you avoid that fate. There’s no sign up required. Just click and read. I asked my trusted and expert community to review the book and say what they thought of it: “Fantastic eBook! “Wow! “Don’t get caught without Olivia Mitchell’s just-in-time guide to the technology, tips and tactics speakers need to navigate the Twitter backchannel when they’re presenting. Download the eBook Note: There are a lot of clickable hyperlinks in the eBook. In the eBook I show you: Download “How to Present with Twitter (and other backchannels)” Updating This eBook will get out-of-date very quickly. Cliff Atkinson’s book Cliff Atkinson (author of Beyond Bullet Points) has written a deeper exploration of the impact on Twitter on presenting.
9 Tips for Enriching Your Presentations With Social Media. Olivia Mitchell is a presentation trainer and blogger.
Her blog has a wealth of presentation tips and she has written a free eBook, "How to Present with Twitter and Other Backchannels. " Follow her on Twitter. Pioneer presenters are using social media to engage their audience and extend the reach of their ideas. Twitter, Facebook, and numerous custom online tools allow presenters to create a backchannel for their audience's ideas and feedback. This two-way engagement can enrich the audience's understanding as well as the presenter's effectiveness. Here are 9 tips for improving your presentations with social media. 1. Some of the most proactive use of social media in presentations is seen not in conferences, but in higher education. "I've seen a huge increase in interaction. Meeting planners and conference organizers are also using online community tools to help conference attendees network both pre and post-event. 5 Ways to Use Twitter to Avoid a Backchannel Disaster.
Cliff Atkinson is author of The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever (New Riders, 2009).
What do you do when you’re giving a presentation, and notice that your audience is looking down, busily typing on their laptops and smartphones? And what about when you get the sense that they are turning against you? When audiences use Twitter and other tools to communicate with one another during live presentations, they create a new “backchannel” where they share comments, questions and sometimes criticisms about the person speaking. This new dynamic has led to high-profile blowups between presenters and audiences, which makes it more important than ever for presenters to do the right things to avoid similar disasters. To short-circuit a possible disaster, keep in mind these five things you can do to prepare and engage the backchannel.
LISTEN UP! PRESIDENT OBAMA AND OTHERS RECOGNIZED BY LISTENERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD! 0inShareinShare0 President Barack Obama was awarded the 2009 Listener of the Year at the 30th annual convention of the International Listening Association (ILA) this past weekend.
Previous recipients of this award range from past Tonight Show host Johnny Carson to journalist and author Alex Haley. The ILA convention is held in March as a way of celebrating International Listening Awareness Month. More than 100 individuals listened to a video clip in which Obama stressed the importance of listening. In one of his nominations, Obama was recognized for demonstrating how much he engages as a listener by seeking out alternative viewpoints and responding to diverse perspectives, which he did throughout his presidential campaign and the subsequent transition. Saturday, March 21, a representative from StoryCorps was on hand to accept one of two ILA Special Recognition awards given out that night during an awards banquet. Graham D. How to Present While People are Twittering.
This is a guest post from esteemed presentations and speaking expert Olivia Mitchell.
People used to whisper to each other or pass hand-scribbled notes during presentations. Now these notes are going digital on Twitter or via conference-provided chat rooms. Up until now, this back-channel has been mainly confined to the Internet industry and technology conferences. However, a survey of leadership conferences from Weber Shandwick shows that there is a significant increase in blogging and twittering at conferences.
So the next time you present at a conference, instead of being confronted by a sea of faces looking at you, you may be phased by a sea of heads looking down at their laptops. Photo credit : Pete Lambert Benefits of the back channel to the audience As a presenter, the idea of presenting while people are talking about you is disconcerting. 1. As a presenter, you might be worried that the back-channel will be distracting. Rachel Happe adds: 2. 3. Funny Presentation Training - how many errors can you find?