Have you heard of the “Death by PowerPoint” movement? I’m not sure you could actually call it a movement, but it’s a way to summarise the many people who are fed up of being bored senseless by business presentations – most often delivered with PowerPoint. After the software itself, bullet points are the “Death by…
‘Show don’t tell’ is a lesson often taught to fiction writers. Instead of telling the audience “Sally was cold”, the rule tells them to show it by saying “Sally shivered”. This makes storytelling more interesting, and helps to overcome the common boring technique (shown in my previous post) of pointing out the obvious: “Sally shivered…
We had a quick brainstorm in the office this morning. 5 designers, all 2 plus year Prezi veterans. We created a wish list, we got over the layout changes and the ‘disappearing Zebra’, and moved on to a simple list of things that we wish Prezi could do. Even more we think that Prezi is now at the stage…
Last week I attended my first Independent Publisher’s Guild UK (IPG) Conference. I was there at the recommendation of Antonella Pearce, the excellent Publisher Relations Manager of the Publisher’s Licensing Society who suggested I should attend to learn a little more about the world of publishing. I love going to conferences. Particularly those where I have no agenda for being…
iThoughts HD – $9.99 iThoughts is a simple mind-mapping app, which looks great. Simple to use, with more flexibility than pencil and paper, you can concentrate completely on brainstorming your presentation ideas. Plus, with it’s image inserting capabilities and flexibility, iThoughts could help you to create simple presentation visuals. Sadun’s Whiteboard – $2.99 Although modern…
Janine Shepherd’s 18 minute TED talk is truly inspiring, and not only because her story is incredibly moving, tragic and brilliant. For public speakers, it is a master-class in drawing your audience in to your story. In fact, I’d recommend everybody watch this video – we could all learn a lot about becoming better story…
Educators face some of the most difficult challenges when it comes to designing presentation slides. Teachers and lecturers have a huge amount of information to share, and often need to provide chunks of text for reference, long quotes, and text-heavy presentations. If you’re sharing a lot of information, how can you still make your slides…
Here’s the second of four posts by Ian Griffin. If you missed the first, he’s been discussing the different approaches we can take to share information with our audiences. Click here to read from the beginning. As I outlined in the first part of this series, there are four main ways of speaking to inform….
I see his point, and feel no need to comment, or disagree. In short, he says- To this day I have yet to see a Prezi presentation that would not have been better had the speaker used something else, including nothing at all. Many presentations would be better if the speaker just spoke, sans slides…