Book Review: The Backchannel by Cliff Atkinson
In recent posts, we have talked about the benefits and challenges to adding Twitter to your presentations.
The book by Cliff Atkinson called The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations is great for people who want to read more about installing Twitter.
We have talked about the positive and negatives of the practice. I think that it is a good idea, but you do have to take some things into account. When I do book reviews, I want to tell you some things I learned from a book.
Two (of the many things) I learned from the book:
1. Set up a presentation wiki to upload all of your information. It is tempting to just upload everything on your website. But it might be easier to throw everything up on your personal
webpage. But it might be easier to set up an independent page to enable the backchannel for your presentation.
I believe that this wiki-method might be a great way to go if you do a consistent amount of presentations. (p. 103)
2. Break up your ideas into Twitter-sized chunks. Think about your presentation from the backchannel, but not the podium. After you have developed the major ideas, build your presentation around those main ideas. (p. 139)
So, this book is a good pickup. And, if you use the link in the right column, you get 34 percent off the book (Shameless plug!).
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