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STAGE YOUR PRESENTATION WITH PROPS 143<br />
Internet can instruct on a deep, intellectual level, but it can<br />
also make the most mundane tasks easier.<br />
3. Make use of your skills onstage. Montemagno is a former<br />
world-ranked table tennis player and works that unique skill<br />
into his presentations. He invites another professional player<br />
onstage, and the two hit the ball back and forth quickly and<br />
effortlessly. As they do, Montemagno, speaking into a wireless<br />
headset, compares table tennis to the Internet.<br />
<strong>Steve</strong> <strong>Jobs</strong> has elevated presentations to an art form, but<br />
few of us will ever introduce a product as world-changing as<br />
a revolutionary new computer. This fact is all the more reason<br />
to find new, exciting ways to engage your audience. To see<br />
video clips of Montemagno in action, visit his site: http://mon<br />
temagno.typepad.com/marco_blog/blog_index.html.<br />
exchange elicited a huge laugh. <strong>Jobs</strong> had literally crank-called<br />
a Starbucks as part of the demo. <strong>Jobs</strong> has so much fun showing<br />
off new products that his enthusiasm leaps off the stage and<br />
rubs off on everyone in attendance. It is precisely because he<br />
has fun that people enjoy watching him.<br />
In another prime example of having fun with demos, <strong>Jobs</strong><br />
took some quirky photographs of himself while introducing a<br />
feature called Photo Booth on October 12, 2005. Photo Booth<br />
is a software application for using a Web camera to take photographs<br />
and video.<br />
“Now I want to show you Photo Booth,” said <strong>Jobs</strong>. “This is an<br />
incredible way to have some fun. I can just go ahead and take<br />
my picture.” <strong>Jobs</strong> looked into the built-in Web camera on the<br />
computer and smiled for a few seconds as his photograph was<br />
snapped and appeared on-screen. He said, “Isn’t that great? Let<br />
me show you some pretty cool effects.” <strong>Jobs</strong> proceeded to snap<br />
comical photographs of himself using features such as Thermal,<br />
X-Ray, and Andy Warhol. “But it gets even better,” <strong>Jobs</strong> said as he<br />
smiled and rubbed his hand together. “We decided to put in the