Explode the Room
For my first presentation at at CTC, I tossed out the powerpoint, exploded the seating into a circle, and held a town hall Phil Donahue style on Social Software.
Jeffrey Treem and Renee Blodget have notes, the participation was fantastic.

Fantastic session today Ross. This was my first chance to hear you speak live, and I really enjoyed it. I was the IBMer in the back that talked about how blogging has dramatically expanded my reach with customers that I otherwise never would have met. I support your thoughts on blogs and wikis being wonderful collaboration tools enabling us to be "freed from our in-boxes". Than again, Lotus Notes has been doing this for many years with shared workspaces (TeamRooms and QuickPlaces), Document Libraries, and links to shared content instead of emails! :-) I hope we can speak for a few minutes at the conference.
Posted by: Alan Lepofsky | June 20, 2006 at 09:31 PM
makes sense , a pleasant story , and aah Dhengiz Khan didn't have powerpoint as well , just a darn good story.
Posted by: Hemaworstje | June 25, 2006 at 05:45 AM
We pulled our chairs into a circle for our sessions on meetings as well. Get out of the rows! Let's talk!
Posted by: Nancy White | June 25, 2006 at 07:23 PM