Blog post at http://bit.ly/hGhaFK. Some people are confident public speakers, other people get nervous. Either way, you still see a lot of people breaking the most basic rules of presenting, and those presentations would be a lot better if they didn't.
4. 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.
6. 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.
19. Oh, and they said – don’t worry about recording that episode of Friends on your VHS player.
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21. 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.
31. 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...
33. Click to view the background image (by Nasos3) on Flickr PRESENTATION BY NED POTTER CLICK FOR MORE STUFF AT THEWIKIMAN.ORG 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.