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Keeps your attention on the speaker. It's helpful for speakers that don't have "presence" on stage. Content alone is not enough.

ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
> speakers that don't have "presence" on stage That's me!
- doggodaddo78 5y ago
  Nawh, you can learn it all. It's a skill. Join Toastmasters and they'll help you develop it.
  - ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
    Well, I’ve been involved with an outfit that involves fairly regular speaking gigs (from just a couple, to a couple hundred) for 40 years. I’m not consistent, so I’m not on anyone’s shortlist for keynote speaker, which is fine by me. For classes, though, I practice for hours. It seems to satisfy people.
    - doggodaddo78 5y ago
      I understand. If it's mandatory informational or community volunteering, there's not much drive to invest heavily in a particular skill like make speaking production value into quality infotainment. When it's a skill interesting or essential enough to improve it might be worth for speakers to move around trying different support organizations to get new perspectives, and different techniques and feedback.
doggodaddo78 5y ago
It's always infotainment. Jokes, personality, energy, looks, and maybe content. Interestingly, I was in The Wine Room, Palo Alto about 2011 hanging out with a business partner. I see this dude who's drunk af leaning against the window. He gets up, stumbles over to me, and says "Tell me a joke." I gave him the worst joke I could think of recycled from a girl I met the day before. The reasons is it was Guy Kawasaki and he always needs fresh jokes for public speaking, so crowdsourcing is one way to accumulate them. Oddly enough, Garage Ventures used to be above Nola's across the street from The Wine Room before it went over to 1 First St 2nd floor above my client's office in Los Altos.
ilaksh 5y ago
If they are too stupid or lazy to pay attention based on what the person is saying..

ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago

> speakers that don't have "presence" on stage That's me!

doggodaddo78 5y ago
Nawh, you can learn it all. It's a skill. Join Toastmasters and they'll help you develop it.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
  Well, I’ve been involved with an outfit that involves fairly regular speaking gigs (from just a couple, to a couple hundred) for 40 years. I’m not consistent, so I’m not on anyone’s shortlist for keynote speaker, which is fine by me. For classes, though, I practice for hours. It seems to satisfy people.
  - doggodaddo78 5y ago
    I understand. If it's mandatory informational or community volunteering, there's not much drive to invest heavily in a particular skill like make speaking production value into quality infotainment. When it's a skill interesting or essential enough to improve it might be worth for speakers to move around trying different support organizations to get new perspectives, and different techniques and feedback.

doggodaddo78 5y ago

It's always infotainment. Jokes, personality, energy, looks, and maybe content. Interestingly, I was in The Wine Room, Palo Alto about 2011 hanging out with a business partner. I see this dude who's drunk af leaning against the window. He gets up, stumbles over to me, and says "Tell me a joke." I gave him the worst joke I could think of recycled from a girl I met the day before. The reasons is it was Guy Kawasaki and he always needs fresh jokes for public speaking, so crowdsourcing is one way to accumulate them. Oddly enough, Garage Ventures used to be above Nola's across the street from The Wine Room before it went over to 1 First St 2nd floor above my client's office in Los Altos.

ilaksh 5y ago

If they are too stupid or lazy to pay attention based on what the person is saying..