Comments on: Presenting in a networked age https://blog.learnlets.com/2009/10/presenting-in-a-networked-age/ Clark Quinn's learnings about learning Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:01:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: Annalie Killian https://blog.learnlets.com/2009/10/presenting-in-a-networked-age/#comment-90992 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:01:35 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=1283#comment-90992 As curator of AMPLIFY Innovation & Thought Leadership Festival and occasional speaker myself, I enjoyed the thinking journey that your post has taken me on so much so that I have posed some questions on Twitter and even blogged about it at http://catalystformagic.posterous.com/we-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-powerpoint-or. I suspect the genie is out of the bottle as far as the continual partial attention syndrome (a term coined by Linda Stone) is concerned, and it ain’t ever going back, though I have heard and seen awesome speakers ask folks to “be present in the moment” and guess what…they were! (eg a lecture by Dr BJ Fogg, Founder of Persuasive Technologies Lab at Stanford University and a Doctor in Cognitive Psychology. )
I wonder if this does not introduce a new opportunity for speakers to create an even better experience for learning or co-creation of knowledge with an audience?

]]> By: Public Speakign Course https://blog.learnlets.com/2009/10/presenting-in-a-networked-age/#comment-83752 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:43:26 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=1283#comment-83752 Great article

I don’t think the question should be, ‘Are these questions valuable to the listener?’ but rather, ‘Why does the listener think that these activities are more valuable than listening?’

Perhaps it is a reflection on the speaker, particularly ifd they are looking up stuff that is not directly related to the presentaion at hand!

just some thoughts.

Cheers

Darren Fleming
Australia’s Corporate Speech Coach

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