How to Give a Terrible Speech
I recently attended a conference on matters high tech in the UK. Good conference overall, but one speaker was so ...
What’s the difference between watching a TED speech on your computer and attending an event?
We’re watching a great deal of video on our computers these days, and seeing fewer live human speeches. That’s a ...
How to follow up your meeting, conference, or event
After my recent blogs on virtual meetings, Kristin Zurovitch, Director of Marketing at Sonic Foundry, a tech company in Madison, ...
Imagine There’s No PowerPoint
Imagine there's no PowerPointIt's easy if you tryNo screens before usNo piles of printed slidesImagine all the people focusing on ...
Pam Slim Live at the Public Words Speaker Forum 2010
A few years back, a worker bee got fed up in corporate America, quit her job, became an entrepreneur and ...
How to develop a paid public speaking career – V: What you need
Let’s talk about the marketing materials you need to develop a paid public speaking career. There are a few essentials: ...
The Future of Conferences, Part Five – How to Involve the Audience
Conferences ask a lot of passivity from their audiences – audiences made up of people who are normally quite ...
The Future of Conferences, Part 4 – What Would the Ideal Conference Look Like?
Think about all the people, products, and processes that have to work well in order for you to have a ...
The Future of Conferences, Part Three: What is a green conference?
I talked with author, speaker, and former Yahoo! executive Tim Sanders recently about the future and green conferences. Tim ...
The Future of Conferences – Part Two: What are the current trends?
It took a year for the conference world (and the traveling public) to recover from 9/11. How long will it ...
