August 10, 2016
No matter how boring or interesting the topic – I’m never the person to go in and sit in the front-row. Even if it is someone I know, I’ll never sit at the front. I’ll aim for the middle, never the front. I’m always impressed by the people who go right up to the front each and every time, sitting there, waiting to listen. Whether it is my presenting or me attending – lots of respect for those people – they fuel the speaker and energize the crowd.
July 29, 2016
When you go to a very large conference, crowd control is of the utmost important requirement – are there too many people in this room, how do we feed 20,000+ people for lunch, how do we keep the flow of the event moving and not have those few people going under the ropes and disrupting everything. It’s definitely not an easy task and one I don’t envy. But it’s one I find myself continually chuckling at – as adults – paying to attend an event where we want to learn on these new ideas, be creative and learn. Yet where
July 28, 2016
As you attend events or perhaps even learn to immerse yourself in your field of interest to the level where you know a number of the “heavy hitters” you start to shift the attendance of sessions or events based on the presenter and not the content. If the presenter is really that good, you will listen and be engaged with whatever it is their saying. Don’t think it’s true? Next time you have a session catalog in front of you, pick a presenter you know and one you don’t and imagine them presenting the same content on a very dry
July 25, 2016
Have you ever been to a presentation where the person stopped mid-sentence through a very long presentation, trying to catch their place? I think part of it is them trying to decide where to restart but the other part of “why don’t they get what I’m saying”. If you want your message to get across then you need to understand what matters to your audience that will trigger your message to reach them. We all have different styles of presentation; informative, humorous, direct, etc but at the end of the day if you cannot do the one thing that is
July 22, 2016
There are so many great stories to be told and heard, but they don’t come in the flashiest of covers, the largest of fanfare or the cutest marketing campaign. You can’t get them on your phone. The corners are dog-eared and scratched. They resonate with a few but not the paying masses. And they are some of the greatest stories that you will ever read, tucked behind the boxes that showcase the new, some of the greatest adventures you will ever read. Don’t read it for the hype, read it for the story, the hype isn’t going anywhere, but who
