How to effectively present in English in the 21st Century

I had the great honour of attending the TEDx event in Seoul, last weekend. This was a shared event between TEDx Sookmyung and TEDx Myeongdong and the title was “Young Spirit , Visualize Your Idea”.

What was great to see was the seemingly complete move away from text based slides to a much more visual slide. Simple sentences and images say so much more than lines and lines of text, and that was demonstrated in abundance at this event.

The whole event was fantastically organised, with little intro videos before each speaker. This gave the event a feel of professionalism. Below, is a sample of one of the intro videos that was for guest speaker Bill Dresselhaus

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One of the great things about TED is the wonderful resources available on the main TED website. Here you can watch, completely free, some of the world’s best presenters talking passionately about what they truly believe in.
With the creation of the TEDx groups, you too can enjoy a TED event in your very own home town. So check out the TED website for a full list of TEDx cities and go along and watch some amazing presentations – you will not be disappointed.