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Inspiration in 140 Characters or less

The Twitter phenomenon swept through my workplace like wildfire.

In adopting Twitter I discovered, like everyone else, I have mundane, every day commentary on my life and times and then I have moments of greatness when my wit shines through. I know that all of my copy writing skills come in handy as I write my engaging, humour laden, 140 character “elevator pitch” size comments.

It is always top-of-mind that I am trackable, and everything I say can be indexed by search engines and it will be online, attached to me, forever. Be witty, but watch your mouth!

Twitter + Networking = Amazing Contacts.

Give me a “slice of your life” in 140 characters. One of my twitter friends, Chris Brogan, was at the “Gnomedex” conference twittering about how incredible this presentation was that he was attending. He was inspired by this presenter and wanted to Twitter about him and how he was planning on changing his own presentation style and shared all of this in 140 characters.

I responded and made a comment to him about how rare it is to be inspired by a quality presenter and he responded to me about how the presentation was different and what an impact it made on him, as well as the fact that it is very difficult to teach someone to speak effectively.

Here I am, sitting here on my couch on a Saturday morning, eavesdropping into a conference hundreds of miles away, across the border and into the USA (Seattle to be precise!). In that moment, I was there. Absorbing the inspiration style of a presenter that I otherwise would never have known about. Talk about reach…that is stretching your influence a long way.

Twitter Follow Up

So I went to the Twitterer’s Chris Brogan’s blog and learned about what he was trying to accomplish on the web and what his passions are, he inspired me with his commentary!

Now I look out for his tweets, and I have his blog in my RSS feeds now. He has a great post on Personal Branding too. I have already adopted some of his suggestions.

Twitter introduced us. Now I have a contact that I can discuss “Presentation Greatness” with. Twitter hooked me up! It is a great source of inspiration.

If you do pursue Twitter, make as many friends as you can it is amazing what you can learn in 140 Characters or less.

Stemming from my “short” conversation with Chris Brogan, I thought I would share some inspiration of my own. This video clip shows Dick Hardt (who had presented at a past O’Reilly Web 2.0 Conference) who is a skilled and seasoned presenter.

Passionate Presentations

When doing research for Web Marketing Post Grad courses last year. I was teaching in the Georgian College Web Design and Development program , I discovered an outstanding presenter while prepping on of my lectures – I want to share this with you here.

When making presentations, I always want to teach my students to deliver the information precisely and effectively, and in the most entertaining way possible. This presenter takes the bull by the horns and runs with it.

This presenter knows how to brand himself too.

Until you have watched this, you don’t know “Dick”…

Enjoy!