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Month: May 2011

Professional Presentation Skills – Part Seven

By Peter Mosley

(Links to previous parts at bottom of the article)

You have to motivate your audience!

What can I say … this is critical!

There is no question to that the old saying "You do not get a second chance to make that first impression" rings very true here. The very first moment you appear before your audience and begin your presentation. You have on the average between one and two minutes at the most to set the tone of your presentation, some say you have even less time to capture their attention and hold it.

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Why Twitter is Considering Facebook-Style Pages

By Jon Cogan

Earlier this month, Marketing Magazine announced that Twitter is considering pages for brands, much like the kind that Facebook has been offering for years.

The non-committal "considering" by Twitter is an obvious attempt at crowd sourcing the reaction to taking such a measure, and gauging the support, or lack thereof in the Twittersphere.  Marketing Magazine reported that Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is leading the charge alongside his right hand man, President of Revenue Adam Bain. So if you are looking for a  more concrete answer as to whether or not this is going to happen, you are best to ask either of these men. But the better question may be "why?"

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