Seven Ways To Set Your Presentations On Fire
I don’t know what it is with us PR folk, but we like to use words, phrases, analogies that evoke destruction when we put our rah-rah hats on.
“Sizzlin’!”
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“Crush it!”
“Kill it!”
Whatever. We’re a bloodthirsty lot and happy to be so.
This past Sunday, I shared seven posts that I think make for great reading when you’re preparing for a presentation.
Today, I wanted to share seven lessons I learned as I prepared for Ignite DC No. 5, an experience I will never forget (thank you, Geoff Livingston, for making me do this).
And these are outside of the commonsense “know your audience,” etc.
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As I was glancing through my Reader last week, I caught an interesting post from my friend Geoff Livingston that posited we’re rapidly approaching the end of the technology adoption curve for social media.”
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I thought about this.
And thought some more.
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Left Right Left Right
When I worked at Ruder Finn some years ago, I was told, one day, that I was being moved to an account that I perceived as less than thrilling.
Never one to hide my feelings very well (I know, weird for a former actress, but it’s true), I must have given away how not-excited I was.
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Shortly after, I was marched into the office of one of the VPs (I was an Account Supervisor at the time), for a chat.
Have you read Roald Dahl’s The Witches?
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