This is sure to elicit an “OK Boomer” from some but I am going to say it anyway.
Don’t stand in front of the room as a presenter or emcee and read off your iPhone to your audience. Not for a quote, not for a special point, not for something you can’t remember and especially not for an introduction.
I think this is the equivalent of saying to them “I didn’t have time or the interest to either memorize this or print it off or, at the very least, put it on note cards. And I am not going to worry about eye-contact either.”
I have seen this a number of times recently as an emcee reads an introduction from their iPhone and it sucks. They are looking down, frantically scrolling thru their messages and very spottily (is that a word?) reading tiny type on their 4-inch screen. It does not come across well to the audience members who have put in the effort to be physically sitting in front of them. Is it disrespectful? Is it rude? Is it better on an iPad?
You decide. I am just putting it out there as one boomer ranting about something.
I patiently await your pushback…
