As many of you folks know I’m doing a tour around Universities in Italy, and I’m having hard times to keep people awake during presentations; I mean I spend half strenghts to be expressive. This is impressive! I’ve improved a lot my slides on presentation, some of ‘em are funny, others not, but always communicative: short messages. Short messages, means that the speaker must remember more stuff. I mean I’ve quit writing tips for me and not for people listening.
Watch the slide above (the correct text should be Huston, we’ve had a problem, but when I’m speaking we still have a problem 
), takes more than 25 minutes to be explained (including code), and could mean anything.
The harder part is to speak varying the voice costantly, like a VBR mp3 . People do not listen all words, but you should fill the speech continuosly with lots words, and it’s left to speaker ability find which word vary.
I’m following the NerdPlusArt blog wich suggested to sing when speaking. “[...]feel a song coming on…”, it says kidding. Well I do not sing, not at all, I hate karaoke, but I talk trying to let fluid words appear smootly in the listener’s mind. Whaaaaat? yep! never tried to rep in freestyle? you have to speak making rhymes not coupled (it’s for beginners), but spreaded in couple of phrases.
I was 16, and people said I was wasting my time. It turned out It was even useful 
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So I do not fully agree you do not have to sing when presenting. You sing but people do not know. So think about a song that fits your mood, speak clear, and do NOT be in a hurry.
-dave
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