Comments on: Attention: the backchannel revisited

By: Back from the PPTLive conference! « PowerPoint Tips Blog

Back from the PPTLive conference! « PowerPoint Tips Blog — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:20:29 +0000

[...] Cliff Atkinson (www.beyondbulletpoints.com), author of Beyond Bullet Points, opened the conference with a keynote called, “The Presentation Evangelist: How to change the world, one deck at a time.” He challenged the audience, many of whom consult or provide internal presentation advice within their companies, to become superheroes in the quest for better presentations. For example, presentation specialists can pull a meaningful story from a bunch of bullet points and help presenters understand design elements and the audience’s point of view. He said that the value of a presentation specialist is in getting results and urged the audience not to think in terms of x dollars per hour. By the way, Cliff is coming out with a new book, The Back Channel, about Twitter, chat room and other comments that go on while a presenter is talking. He told us about some of the events where the back channel became an event in itself. One example, from the SXSW conference is discussed here. [...]

By: Guardian Activate 09 - Roo Reynolds

Guardian Activate 09 - Roo Reynolds — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:21:33 +0000

[...] at various points during the day. Regular readers will know that I’ve long been fascinated by backchannels and how they’re used at live events. The tool the Guardian were using today (developed [...]

By: Twitterprompter?

Twitterprompter? — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:36:28 +0000

[...] Reynolds has a worthwhile piece about backchannels at the recent SXSW. [Note to self. You were born in the wrong country to be at Yasgur's farm. [...]

By: Out to Pasture » Blog Archive » Twitter Mob

Out to Pasture » Blog Archive » Twitter Mob — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:42:33 +0000

[...] to Roo, I came upon an interesting, in-depth analysis by Kee Hinckley of the Lacy/Zuckerberg keynote at [...]

By: kyb

kyb — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:20:05 +0000

Anyway, you’re too modest, ‘creative discernment’ sounds like it could be you.

By: Roo

Roo — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:09:20 +0000

Oh, fair enough. Go on then. :-)

By: kyb

kyb — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:39:16 +0000

Nobody has the power to foresee the future or have knowledge of actions or events before they happen. But sometimes people appear to have that knowledge or power, so they can aptly be called prescience.

If you want to go about appearing to have that power or knowledge, the path to follow is a mixture of luck and common sense.

By: Roo

Roo — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:55:01 +0000

Knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight. Unusual or creative discernment or perception. The power to foresee the future.

I don’t have any of these things. :-)

By: kyb

kyb — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:51:19 +0000

“coincidence mixed with common sense”? That’s what prescience is.