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on 2009-03-01 by sharon_elin

I often find valuable insights & extra resources in the chat or backchannels; and if the presenter is also paying attention to it, they often answer important questions on the spot.

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We used to suffer in silence through bad presentations. Today, the audience is now connected. They get to know that others are suffering too - and that changes the way they react.

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He monitored the back channel through his phone:

As the conversation on stage continued, the stream of questions and comments from the audience intensified. I changed my tactics based on what I saw. I asked questions the audience was asking, and I immediately felt the tenor of the room shift towards my favor. It felt a bit like cheating on an exam.

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How to Present While People are Twittering

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People used to whisper to each other or pass hand-scribbled notes during presentations. Now these notes are going digital on Twitter or via conference-provided chat rooms.

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a survey of leadership conferences from Weber Shandwick shows that there is a significant increase in blogging and twittering at conferences.

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on 2009-03-01 by sharon_elin

I often find valuable insights & extra resources in the chat or backchannels; and if the presenter is also paying attention to it, they often answer important questions on the spot.

on 2009-03-01 by gingertplc

It's often difficult to present and monitor the backchannel too, so it's handy to have a buddy pause you and tell you the questions in there. That way you can give full attention to those who aren't backchannelling, yet acknowledge the questions that people have. Of course there is the odd technique of folks raising their own hands...

on 2009-03-01 by gingertplc

Also, if my students and I are presenting, we try to encourage backchannel chatting through our Google Preso, so it's on the board and easy for even those *not* backchannelling to see and benefit. However, only few participants seem to backchannel at all or know what it is.

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My “take-away content” from the backchannel equalled or surpassed what I got from presentations directly.

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My “take-away content” from the backchannel equalled or surpassed what I got from presentations directly.

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The back-channel blurs the line between the presenter and the audience.

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Replying to each other all while the ppt was progressing along it’s unwaveringly linear path.

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on 2009-02-27 by grampymoose

Is there a case for having the backchannel (tweets) visible alongside the ppt? maybe a "tweet-meter"? Not neccessarily large enough to read the content but an indication to the presenter and the audience of the volume of "conversation" surrounding points under discussion ...

You don’t have to be physically present to participate

Not only can you watch a live videostream of the presentation, but you can also tweet or chat with the physically-present participants.

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on 2009-02-26 by cynmccune

An interesting option for online classes?

on 2009-02-28 by rjacklin

This is actuall how I do most of my own PD. I'm very rarely live in one place as I learn

on 2009-03-11 by http://www.diigo.com/profile/

I use it to help keep my students uptodate when they are absent. I intend to keep it a part of my classes as we migrate more and more online.

We’re used to having eye contact with our audience and using that eye contact and audience reaction to measure how well we’re engaging the audience. Now when you say something brilliant, instead of nods of appreciation, there will be a flurry of tapping.

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on 2009-03-06 by thespian70

I highly recommend having a moderator who can pass questions on to the presenter from the backchannel. It really can allow the presenter to address the audienece's needs.

As the conversation on stage continued, the stream of questions and comments from the audience intensified. I changed my tactics based on what I saw. I asked questions the audience was asking, and I immediately felt the tenor of the room shift towards my favor. It felt a bit like cheating on an exam.

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What this means is that when you’re presenting with the back channel - you need to monitor that channel and be prepared to change course and adapt. Robert Scoble says:

I hate being captive in an audience when the people on stage don’t have a feedback loop going with the audience. We’re used to living a two-way life online and expect it when in an audience too. Our expectations of speakers and people on stage have changed, for better or for worse.

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Ask a friend or colleague, or a volunteer from the audience to monitor the back channel and interrupt you if there are any questions or comments that need to be addressed. Jeffrey Veen calls this person an ombudsman for the audience.

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If you can’t find someone to take on this role take breaks - say every 10 mins - to check Twitter. Robert Scoble calls this taking a twitter break. You can combine this with asking the audience for “out-loud” questions as well. It’s good practice to stop for questions throughout your presentation - rather than leaving questions till the end.

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Spend some time at the beginning of your presentation explaining to your audience how you will respond to the twitter stream and audience members are more likely to use it responsibly.

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I particularly appreciate the idea of a back channel manager or “microblog pause” for gathering the feedback during a live session.

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Ideally, at some point in the future (if more students start to use Twitter) this could be modeled, practiced, and used as a teaching strategy in a large lecture classroom. There may be people already playing with this.

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You left out a huge bonus to the presenter: key highlights of your presentation are being sent out to an audience much bigger than those in the room. If you have something truly insightful or newsworthy to say, your message may be retweeted far and wide.

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I saw an interview @thecleversheep posted a little while back where university professor was using a backchannel for students to add notes to presentation slides. The comments from all students contributed to the converstation. Interestingly, the comments were made without names! This dissolves awayt the personal interest in twittering for the sake of getting attention and focuses instead on contributing value to the shared conversation. Afterwards, students can access the slides and the notes, links and comments.

Wouldn’t this be an interesting innovation for @slideshare? To be able to integrate audience tweets into slides that are being presented at a conference into an archive for distribution. Sort of like what some of the video conversation tools are doing where folks add their notes to the video.

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@joanna yes, I have used Twitter as a backchannel in the classroom at Bentley and plan to at Harvard Business School this spring.

@hughbriss it can be unnerving, yes, but it can also deliver a MUCH better style and degree of interaction between speaker, audience and material, and for a “breaking eye contact” cost equivalent to note-taking. so long as that cost is weighed against advantages, I think net-net, more becomes possible.

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I’d also suggest making presentations more soundbite heavy- easier for twitters to grab a good quote for their followers that way. I was recently at an education panel and I kept tweeting about only one guy in a seven person panel, because he had the great one-liners that would fit in 140 characters and would be snappy for those reading the tweet out of context.

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Is this the coming of the democratization of conferences? If presentations are live streamed and attendees pointed to SlideShares to follow along and interested others “outside the room” can engage via Twitter, how might that impact conference organizers thinking, planning, and overall conference flow and attendance.

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