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THESTOP BREAKING
BASIC OFPRESENTING!
RULES
With your angry Drill Sergeant @theREALwikiman
It’s so easy to avoid obvious mistakes when presenting.
After all, the audience is on your side. So make it worth their while!
For God’s sake, stop turning to face the big screen! You have a computer right in front of you – you know, the one you’re using to move your presentation materials along – so look at that instead, okay? That way people can actually HEAR you.
Don’t even get me started on this. Written prose has different phraseology, different tones, different nuances, different EVERYTHING from stuff you say out loud. If you’re reading your presentation out, IT IS AWFUL.
Slides should support what you’re saying, not duplicate it – and they certainly shouldn’t be there to provide a surrogate for good content.
•Oh by the way•The late nineties called.• THEY WANT THEIR SUCKY PRESENTATION BACK.•Oh, and they said – don’t worry about recording that episode of Friends on your VHS player.
•Oh by the way•The late nineties called.• THEY WANT THEIR SUCKY PRESENTATION BACK.•Oh, and they said – don’t worry about recording that episode of Friends on your VHS player. •It’ll probably be repeated at some point.
Co-presenters, you DO NOT NEED to look at each other for support and encouragement! If you’re up on stage, own the stage, and talk to your fricking audience.
Either say something, or don’t. None of this “yeah so basically, again… yeah” rubbish. Have you even practiced this talk?
Or ‘like’ or ‘sort of’ or ‘er’ – all you are doing is RUINING THE IMPACT OF YOUR WORDS. Have faith in what you’re saying.
If the audience didn’t know there was supposed to be a video there but it didn’t play, why bore them with your superfluous apology? MOVE ON.
The arrogance! The conceit! The ill-preparedness! The disrespect to the event and to the other presenters!
Either make a presentation you can deliver within the allotted time, or say no to the invitation to speak...
PRESENTATION BY NED POTTER
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Ned Potter, aka thewikiman, is a writer (if he ever finishes his book), a speaker (there are no guarantees he will obey all the rules in this presentation, but he will at least try) and above all, A LIBRARIAN.