Sentences with phrase «talk at their audience»

«Ten years ago I had been working in an accounting firm and it was just one PowerPoint presentation after another and someone would stand in the room with slides behind them and talk at their audience.

Rather than thinking of your platform as a stage from which you talk at your audience, think of your platform as a bridge — a way to connect or close the gap between you and your fans.

Not exact matches

Those who give presentations at conferences, as part of a sales demo, in a marketing push for a new product, or even during a TED talk know how to wow an audience.

During her talk at Soho House, Roth cautions the audience on pursuing writing for anything other than the sheer desire for storytelling - suggesting that to do otherwise, leads to defeat.

The best talk in the world will land flat if it's introduced at a moment when the audience isn't ready to hear it (just as, entrepreneur readers will note, even excellent, groundbreaking products fall flat if they're out of the sync with the market).

That might mean, for example, talking about a potential investment opportunity with targeted audiences through social media, says Georgia Quinn, of counsel at Ellenoff, Grossman & Schole, and an expert in securities law.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on the set of his new talk show series «StarTalk» filmed with a live studio audience in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.

Click on the link just below to download the PDF of the master deck Shel Horowitz uses to select audience - specific slides for his popular talk, «Impossible is a Dare,» given at such venues as TEDx, Green America's massive Green Festival in New York City, and the Slow Living Summit in Vermont.

He talks with Kara Swisher about journalism in front of an audience at the Berkeley journalism school.

Buying your leads sees you talking at a potentially disinterested audience.

Like the audience at Austin's talk, many of these newcomers are economic immigrants, meaning they have the skills, entrepreneurial spirit, and abilities to contribute to the Canadian economy.

Neil Bayley, head of corporate brands at Good Relations, said: «For consumer campaigns you can reach the audience and talk to them and you can be quite confident in your understanding of the channels and how those channels influence them.»

I spoke at a CEO conference in Los Angeles a few years ago and after the talk, the audience wrote their questions on index cards and passed them to me.

At the conclusion of his talk about six biblical stories of so - called «wealth transfers» in scripture, Hinn points at the audience and declares «the seventh wealth transfer is coming to you»At the conclusion of his talk about six biblical stories of so - called «wealth transfers» in scripture, Hinn points at the audience and declares «the seventh wealth transfer is coming to you»at the audience and declares «the seventh wealth transfer is coming to you».

I have had this experience three times now, on three different occasions, in admittedly similar circumstances, but not similar enough to explain the coincidence: I am speaking from a podium to a fairly large audience on the topics of — to put it broadly — evil, suffering, and God; I have been talking for several minutes about Ivan Karamazov, and about things I have written on Dostoevsky, to what seems general approbation; then, for some reason or other, I happen to remark that, considered purely as an artist, Dostoevsky is immeasurably inferior to Tolstoy; at this, a single pained gasp of incredulity breaks out somewhat to the right of the podium, and I turn my head to see a woman with long brown hair, somewhere in her middle thirties, seated in the third or fourth row, shaking her head in wide - eyed astonishment at my loutish stupidity.

Interesting to note that the audience laughed at his reference to males with a limp wrist, but when he talked about daughters not being butch and needing to dress up and be pretty, no one laughed.

For more than a year I have been giving a talk on The Da Vinci Code almost every week; numbers are currently running at 150 to 200 people in the audience each time.

At the end of her talk, she took questions from the audience.

For rookie parents who are desperate to go to the movies, rest assured small babies will be no problem at these showings as any of their complaining will not be heard over the exclamations of three - year olds in the audience who have no problem talking back to the screen (and their parents).

At the very least it might spice up my next column to have evidence of the way Cameron talks tough for his domestic audience while playing the good European abroad.

Bill Rose, Senior Vice President for Marketing Management at Nielsen talks about measuring radio, television and online audiences and making sense of social television activity.

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly talked about ending gun violence before a wary audience at the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network conference.

As the keynote speaker at the event, Thompson encouraged those in the audience to talk to their children about black history and said he learned a lot about black history from listening to what his father remembered.

The event's purpose is to move the conversation beyond just talk for audiences at different phases in their economic journey.

Not to throw bouquets, but contrast Hein's talk - and - walk approach to congressman John Faso's of giving up almost all his speaking time at January's breakfast to field questions from the audience.

A somber de Blasio told the audience at a Police Athletic League event in Midtown that it was time to «put aside political debates, put aside protests, put aside all of the things we will talk about in due time.»

The work - in - progress is now going to be screened at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 24, when New York audiences will be able to see him, bathed in Gibney's shadowy lighting, talking about many of his innermost secrets — including his list of top enemies: Ken Langone, Joe Bruno, Roger Stone (all of whom appear in the video — as does Spitzer's «go - to» call girl «Angelina»).

Speaking Friday to an audience at New York Law School, Bharara talked about his office's views on public corruption.

In his keynote talk at the 2015 Forum titled «Continuing Efforts to Improve Science Education in the U.S,» DeBoer reviewed the history of science standards development in the U.S. and the role of Project 2061 for an audience of several hundred science teachers from various Chinese provinces, many of whom were being recognized for excellence in teaching.

At a presentation of the new program this month, one audience member grew so upset he stormed out of the talk, and some of the creators of the program have been tight - lipped about how it could be used.

«I used to absolutely hate [public speaking]» she says, but having found herself volunteered to give a careers talk at Surrey University, she was «really chuffed» to be asked by a couple of sixth - form teachers in the audience to give her talk again.

The shift accelerated in 2002 after I gave a talk at the University of Pennsylvania, and a neuroscience student in the audience expressed an interest in putting our electronics on brains.

At a recent public talk in English to a general audience in Shanghai, China, he mimed cradling an infant in his arms while he talked about rural parenting.

Co-author Monica Granados of McGill University says that when she gave a talk about the findings to a standing - room - only crowd this month at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Sacramento, California, the audience was concerned about the drop.

Oppenheimer's talk was part of a bevy of presentations at the weeklong meeting devoted to communicating science to a broader audience.

«It was the most pressure - filled environment I had ever seen, and I considered myself to be quite expert at delivering a prepared talk to an audience.

In 2009 Weinberg gave a talk to an audience of science writers at the annual meeting of the National Association of Science Writers in Austin, Texas.

Katherine Pollard shares science on big data and high - performance computing with an audience at Google as part of the Gladstone Open Classroom Talks series.

Above, an audience listens to Bill Roemer of South Fayette Township as he gives a talk about star families during a 2014 star party at Mingo Creek Park Observatory in Washington County.

At the end, someone in the audience asked about education and public outreach (if you've been following along you know is in an... interesting... place right now) and the answer was a very quick «talk to congress.»

He covered a talk given at the meeting by ViaCyte CEO Paul Laikind, Ph.D., who updated the audience on the VC - 01 ™ product.

TALKING TO WOMEN FROM THIRTY TO FIFTY ABOUT HORMONE IMBALANCE As Dr. Lee traveled around the world giving talks and attending conferences, he soon discovered that at least half of his audience and maybe more was pre-menopausal women from their mid-thirties to their late forties.

Audiences will find themselves looking at Kingsley not only when he's talking but when she's talking, too.

Screen Talk, episode 198: Recorded before a live audience in Cannes, this week's Screen Talk digs through a busy year at Cannes to look at the highlights.

With some of the cast talking directly to the audience to fill us in on what's going on, «I, Tonya» stars Margot Robbie as a 15 - year - old right up to her 25th year: credit the wig people and makeup artists for converting a classy - looking actress as a hardscrabble, working - class woman who had in at least one instance is looked over by as a representative of her sport because she does not radiate a wholesome, family manner.

There's this bizarre concern by Hollywood that audiences will rebel if they don't fully understand what's going on at every given moment, and so characters talk to themselves, motivations are spelled out in voiceover, and everyone, especially in action movies, speaks of what they have to do and why they have to do it.

Scream's characters talked about horror - movie rules, poking at conventions and tweaking audience expectations.

Refreshingly even handed and never lowering to gratuitous extremes, The Queen offers a very compelling drama that will leave audiences with something to talk about afterward — and even young viewers may be surprised at just how intriguing this story is.

Director Richard Linklater challenged audiences with his walking - and - talking take on love at first sight and its frustrating inconvenience.

Though many highlights at TIFF this year that have people talking are arriving after already wowing audiences in Telluride and Venice, we're happy to report some standout debuts have been creating their own excitement.