I am glad I saw this before my presentation at the Pittsburgh.NET User Group last week. I noticed the majority of the crowd focused when I repeated questions.

Thanks Lee, that’s a great point. I think I considered that to be part of prep, but I did not mention it specifically. As you said, it is quite important.

It’s a good idea to show up early and make sure all the technical aspects of the presentation are taken care of. It’s hard to give a good presentation if you flustered and starting 15 minutes late because you couldn’t get your presentation to work on the venue’s AV system, or if the fonts went all weird or the sound system isn’t working or…

You get the picture.

Breaking Murphy’s Law is devoted to avoid presentation mishaps: http://www.breakingmurphyslaw.com).

Jack,

Thanks for the comment. You raise a great point: not everyone is comfortable with visual imagery. Definitely something for me to consider when I am taking notes on presentations.

I struggle with including images. I’m not graphically proficient and I want to be sure that anything I include reinforces the point(s) I’m trying to get across and I have a hard time finding images that do that.

Jon, great feedback. there is a lot of truth there, just so long as they don’t fall asleep in the middle!