The best presentation...

...So, here's what I'd like you to consider:

Skip straight to the part that people seem to like the best, and that you're the best at: the Q&A.

Step 1: get a confederate (a helper, not someone from Atlanta) to sit in the audience ready with the first obviously seeded question.

Step 2: Walk onstage. No laptop.

Step 3: "Any questions?"

Step 4: The seeded question is something like: "So, Seth, what have you been up to?..." [Continued]

(Via Seth's Blog.)

Yes, yes, I can't say it more clearly, YES!

This is this best advice I have heard in months and something that I was already doing.

I have been doing free computer classes at my library for years and this is basically how I started each and every one. "Any questions? What can I do for you?" and we are off for an hour and a half until the librarians have to practically physically eject us from the building.

A question and answer session is so much more useful and productive than a typical presentation because it actually answers the questions that people have. What could be more productive than that?


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