Steven Druker at the Common Ground Country Fair - 2015 (organic, better, effective)

[Submariner]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2juSfEZEEHk

I attend this fair every year. They usually have some interesting speakers.

The audience is largely farmers of either organic or sustainable mindset. Most are very small-scale.

Often these speakers are 'preaching to the choir'.

What do you think of him?

[Philip T]

Okay, Sub-ster. Took me two times to get about 2/3 of the way through.

As I respect your opinions and your request, figured it was worth the try.

Interesting . . . but a deadly (for attention span) format. This is now sort of an era now past the Lincoln-Douglas Long Debate times. We do not have all day. There are Cat Vines on Facebook to watch, yunno.

I know you were Navy, and I was Army. One thing they taught us in Effective Communication (part of Officer Basic Course) was the "Three B's"

1. Be Brief.
2. Be Bright.
3. Be Over.

along with the traditional:

1. Tell them what you are going to tell them.
2. Tell them what you are there to tell.
3. Tell them what you told them.

You follow? From the start I was never clear what he was going on about. It drifted around. . . . and as I confessed above . . . never made it to the end.

So his topic is sort harmed by the delivery. Probably at an open fairground (looked really nice for visiting and sitting about, btw) it may be good for a Picnic Lunch sort of format presentation. But on Video, in the here and now . . . needs some *snap.*

[Submariner]

Good point.

Some of their 'Keynote' speakers are better than others.

This year, their 'best' speaker was Will Bonsal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mi0qR2nKvc



I guess some people should not be given a microphone