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Your Guide to Reaching Your Audience

Speaking at an industry event is an opportunity for both personal and professional growth. The effort you expend to reach your audience will strengthen your communications skills in all aspects of your career. The EDUCAUSE Speaker Concierge has collected a great deal of information for you to use to be a better presenter and ensure that you get the most out of your conference experience.

What Do You Need Help With?

I'm working on a presentation for a face-to-face audience and would like some tips on how to engage listeners.

I'm working on a presentation for an online or hybrid (face-to-face and online) audience and would like to know best practices for audience engagement.

I'm preparing a poster session and would love advice on how to connect with my audience.

 

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How to Plan a Successful Presentation

(EDUCAUSE Podcast)
This 11-minute podcast features insights from several academic professionals on presenting a successful conference session for maximum audience impact. This program will provide clear ideas and tips on how to approach your audience, how to design an effective PowerPoint presentation, and how to best communicate your ideas.

 

"Slides are slides. Documents are documents. They aren't the same thing. Attempts to merge them result in what I call the "slideument" (slide + document = slideument). Much death-by-PowerPoint suffering could be eliminated if presenters clearly separated the two in their own minds before they even started planning their talks."
– Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen

 

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