Keynote. Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School. An Unlikely Education I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, and was inspired to get it done by Merlin Mann’s recent piece about improving his use of PowerPoint. I do a lot of presentations. Each time I give a talk, I try to improve on something. I have a good base on which to build thanks to an unlikely education. Despite my career in technology, I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Theatre. I learned a lot of good public speaking practices from theatre school. Content – What You Say Respect the Narrative Arc. It’s hardly a stroke of comic genius, but it can change the tone for a few minutes, which never hurts. Technique – How You Say It Go to a speech coach. In short, make your presentations a little more like a play or a film. Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components.
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