Your audiences will use ambient intimacy!

In these first reports I will address a few innovative media challenges that will have an impact on everyone who steps on the platform and speaks. Use the info as a help to create a personal platform to develop new skills and change the way you interact with your audiences.

We professional speakers have coached each other during peer-to-peer sessions, we have read books about platform mechanics, we have followed workshops, we established Master Mind Groups. Nothing new under the sun.

Nothing new? I don’t think so. New phenomena enter our profession. More often than not our audiences will be equipped with notebooks, laptops, mobile phones and smart audio- and video equipment. These tools didn’t have a great impact on us yet, but in the very near future new gadgets will change the dynamics of the speaking industry greatly.

Lemme me give an example. You’re in the middle of one of your great keynotes and totally unexpectedly in the middle of the audience a tall woman stands up, interrupts you and adds that you ‘overlooked the ideas of Professor Abraham’ and she – not you – receives a warm and standing ovation. Strange right? What happened behind the screens. Half of the audience was not only listening to your speech, but was also exchanging information via Twitter. One tweet (a twitter message) read: “He’s overlooking what Professor Abraham wrote, who has the guts to speak up?”. Half of the audience read that message and one brave girl responded. Call it some kind of silence analysing and gossiping. An ambient intimacy.

Future talk? Hell no, this already happened.

Be prepared, collegues

Speak well,

Hans Ruinemans