Quebec City Summer Festival gave me 15 seconds of fame* this week. The summer festival innovates this year by using a 2.0 strategy. They use Twitter to keep in touch with the festivalgoers. You can follow them here: @InfoFestiBell They tweet about upcoming events of...
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How to use Twitter for local news
Let’s create specific hashtags for local news. Hashtags beginning with #news and the name of the city or an acronym. Here are some examples:
#newsqc: Local news for Quebec City.
#newsmtl: Local news for Montreal City.
#newsla: Local news for Los Angeles.
#newsno: Local news for New Orleans.
Etc.
Presentation design styles
If you use PowerPoint or Keynotes or another software while you are presenting, you can choose between different styles of design.
To boldly go beyond pie chart
Pie charts and bar graphs are used everyday in presentations, meetings or reports. We are used to them…..and sometimes bored by them. It is possible to add some creativity in the data presentation. If you have a creative visualisation, you will keep your audience attention instead of boring them.
Put your audience glasses
Everyone sees the world through his own glasses. Glasses representing education, profession, values, etc. What does this means for your next presentation?
You will never be a good speaker
You will never be a good speaker. Why? Because your not as beautiful as you want, you don’t know how to tell jokes, you are shy, you are boring, you have a physical handicap, you have a speech impediment, etc.
Don’t waste your time and ours. Run away from stage. Period.
How do you know your presentation is ready?
When your preparing a speech, how do you know it’s ready? How do you know your materiel is ready? Your slides? Your story? Your knowledge of the audience? Your rehearsal? I read a blog post this week : While working on a piece of art, how do you know when it's "done"?...
Are you responsible for the horrible slides?
Who’s responsible for horrible slides in presentation? The speaker? The communication department?
Chart Chooser
When you want to present data to an audience, there is a lots of possibility. Each one serve a different purpose. Pie chart, diagram, histogram, etc. Which one will fit in your presentation? To help you choose, Andrew Abela create a nice tool. You can find it here....
Speak with Emotions
Yesterday, i attend some conference at lunch time. The young women sitting next to me wasn’t eating. She looked preoccupied. When she got up, left the table et started her presentation, i understood why she wasn’t eating. She was the speaker and she was nervous to...