See yourself: Turn webcam mirroring off September 13th 2009

Cameras see the real you, not your familiar mirror image. Turn your webcam’s mirror mode off to get used to seeing yourself like this.

In yesterday’s post I suggested you work with your webcam on. But what, exactly, do you see? Well, we have a lifetime’s experience of seeing ourselves in a mirror, which is very different from how others see us.

Normally we don’t care; it is only when we see ourselves on screen that we wonder why we look so strange?

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Looking back: 30 years of business presentations September 3rd 2009

Sell to Camera starts with a look back at 30 years experience of giving business presentations, and the changes I have seen in that time.

I gave my first presentation aged 13; the subject was my favourite record, and the audience was my school class.

Today, 35+ years later, I can still recall my choice was Elton John’s Indian Sunset from his Madman Across the Water album released in 1971. A track that turned up again in 2005 as a sample in the Eminem-produced Tupac Shakur song “Ghetto Gospel”.

Since that first event at school, I have given hundreds of business presentations in many situations, from small one-on-one sales meetings, to large trade conferences and company-wide meetings.

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