by John Quinn | Thu May 2020 | Audience Engagement, Presentation Training, Presentations, Public Speaking
Being based in New Zealand we are one of the first countries to come out of the Covid19 disaster. Today folks went back to work and next week schools with restart albeit with distancing. Today the PM Jacinda announced that events can restart soon with a max of 100...
by John Quinn | Fri Sep 2018 | Audience Engagement, Live Events, Presentations, Public Speaking
Silent disco presenting – The pros and cons On average I present about 100 times per year to groups. Mostly it’s the normal main screen and theatre style setup but yesterday in Auckland New Zealand I had a new experience! At The office & PA show I presented...
by John Quinn | Wed Aug 2018 | Audience Engagement, News, Presentation Training, Presentations, Public Speaking
ETF is New Zealand’s premier conference for the event industry – and the official conference of the New Zealand Event Association (NZEA). The conference promotes and encourages best practice by presenting and critiquing new ideas, events and initiatives,...
by John Quinn | Wed Feb 2018 | Audience Engagement, Live Events, Presentation Training, Presentations, Public Speaking
Remember the basics of presentation preparation for your audience When preparing a presentation, we all remember to think about the basics: what you want to say, the data you need to back it up, any visuals that might help. But what about the people you’re presenting...
by John Quinn | Sun Feb 2018 | Audience Engagement, Live Events, Presentations, Public Speaking
Enhanced Audience Analytics & Audience Engagement There are a plethora of live audience engagement tools such as voting clickers (keypads), Ipads with customised apps, Catchbox (throwable microphones) to name a few. But whilst observing a recent event, I was...
by John Quinn | Sun Sep 2017 | Audience Engagement, Live Events, Presentation Training, Presentations, Public Speaking
We’ve all experienced the near death-by-PowerPoint experience… How many times have you sat in a meeting or conference willing it to end and wondering why the presenter is bothering to bore you to death with an uninteresting, boring presentation? If only...
