13 Ways to be an

Awesome Guest Speaker

Barbara B. Nixon

Barbara

Learn about your audience

Tailor for your audience

Share your A/V needs early

Create social bookmarks

Upload to Slideshare

Know your technology

Plan for the technology to fail

Only show what audience needs

Don’t count on an Internet connection

Have a speaker’s toolkit

Be able to expand or contract

Allow for extra travel time

The show must go on

Contact Me

Barbara B. Nixon, Ph.D. (ABD)Assistant Professor, Communication DepartmentSoutheastern UniversityLife Member & Past President

of the International Listening Association (listen.org)

• E-mail: bnixon@auburnalum.org • Twitter: barbaranixon• Skype: barbara.b.nixon• Blog: publicrelationsmatters.com