Presentation Tips
Business Week provides insights on how Cisco's CEO John Chambers works the crowd:
Sell the benefit.
Tell stories.
Make preparation a part of your routine.
Use confident body language.
Overcome personal challenges.
Cringely on YouTube
Robert Cringely writes: "Google's purchase of YouTube is a bet on the value of social networking, not the promise of a video as a TV replacement."
The whole television viewer experience has always been based on two factors: immediacy and production values. TV brought us live events we could share as a nation. YouTube can't do that. TV brought us production values beyond what we could afford as individuals. YouTube doesn't do that unless it is by ripping off copyrighted content.
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YouTube is the factory outlet of commercial television, at least for now.
I am glad to read some presentation tips, because in fact nothing else could be worse than a boring presentation. Believe me or not I take part in quite a few presentations every week and lots of them are very bad. By the way - the tips are useful. I am going to recommend them.
Posted by Kylie M. Lee