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		<title>The Beauty and Problems of New Presentations</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m watching myself present at the Inbound Marketing Summit from a few weeks back in Boston. This was a brand new presentation called &#8220;From Cowpaths to Mastodons,&#8221; and what I&#8217;m loving about it is that I made the presentation kind of out of nowhere and gave it instead of the original planned speech. I love [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m watching myself present at the Inbound Marketing Summit from a few weeks back in Boston. This was a brand new presentation called &#8220;From Cowpaths to Mastodons,&#8221; and what I&#8217;m loving about it is that I made the presentation kind of out of nowhere and gave it instead of the original planned speech. I love that I can work on the fly. </p>
<p>What I dislike about this is that it&#8217;s my first go at it. I see EVERY flaw I made in my performance while watching the video. Here, you watch for a bit. </p>
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<p>It&#8217;s technically okay that I&#8217;m all over the place, and that I&#8217;m staring at my slides a lot, and that my delivery isn&#8217;t crisp&#8230; YET. </p>
<p>What comes next is working on the presentation, deciding what parts make sense, removing parts that don&#8217;t, etc. What&#8217;s interesting is seeing some of the new things I tried (there were three new things), and deciding if I liked them or not. </p>
<p>I had a little alternate reality game going on (I guess you could call it that) where I asked a few &#8220;agents&#8221; in the room to say &#8220;Hey!&#8221; if I put my hands up and &#8220;Yes!&#8221; if I pumped my fist. It was for a test of something, and was interesting. It dealt with repetition, but also dealt with making a point about being first to the presentation. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s interesting to think about this, to watch myself, to be critical. The presentations I give businesses are a bit different, a bit more focused, but what I&#8217;m learning at conferences I&#8217;m applying to my business work. </p>
<p>Are you working on your presentations? Your daily life ones? Your blog ones? Are you learning how to move audiences, and how to bring points across in different ways? </p>
<p>What do you see in your own work? What do you see in mine? </p>
<p>Want to see me present again? I was given another handful of 50% off codes for <a href="http://www.gonewmarketing.com">New Marketing Summit</a> in a few weeks in Massachusetts. Just email me: cbrogan at crosstechmedia.com , and if I&#8217;ve not run out, I&#8217;ll share these last few. Oh, and you can see about another 30 people speak there, too. </p>
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