Archive for September, 2012
How preparing a 5-minute Ignite talk is like writing a short book
Riddle: how is a 5-minute Ignite talk like a short eBook? Both are condensed, both are challenging to create. Giving a five-minute Ignite talk (they’re like mini TED talks) is a tricky performance: your slides advance automatically every 15 seconds and your words have to match up. Five minutes – and 20 slides – is not much time to get across your idea. […]
Strutting the boards: what you can learn from acting
I made my stage debut this summer in a local production in Stonington, ME. Wow. It was both scary and exciting. Acting is very different from speaking before a business audience. There is always an element of performance when you’re delivering a keynote. But this was something new. Luckily, it was a 10-minute play written by a local playwright so […]
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