Stand and Deliver: How to Master Speaking in Public

This second session on public speaking was too basic for me after yesterday's acting techniques. I'm a little surprised that we're still getting the "no more than 3 to 5 bullet points per slide" kind of advice when a lot of presentation professionals are telling us not to use Power Point at all. Edward Tufte makes a case that PP leads to sloppy thinking and contributes to big disasters at NASA.

I'm never going to be as dynamic as Stephen Abram, but I'm ready to have slides like his that are simply visuals to punctuate his talk. Lately, my talks have been wiki-based because I wanted to demonstrate live websites while giving my audience one web site to go to later to play some more with the tools. I have a hard time imagine giving a talk with no visuals at all, as Dr. Martin did yesterday, but maybe that's a goal to shoot for.

Labels: conferences, presentations

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