Short speeches

This article on law.com ties in with several sessions I attended at AALL this year. The sessions were talking more about visual presentations (aka PowerPoint), stressing less is more, and staying on each slide for 20 or fewer seconds.

Brevity Is One Key to Internet-Era Speaking

Joey Asher
Fulton County Daily Report
July 21, 2010

The last 50 years in public speaking have been the JFK/Ronald Reagan era. The next 50 will be the YouTube/talk radio/iPhone era.

To be a great speaker in the future, you must learn to connect with audiences conditioned by the modern media. (cont)