I’ve had loads of inquiries about Prezi and PowerPoint and Keynote, and the strengths and weaknesses of the three major presentation tools on the market today. We use all 3 in our work with clients, and I have no great preference. But here’s a plug for Prezi as a visual tool that can help you…
What do you think of this great article addressing poor business presentation visuals? The main ideas are: – Presentation visuals should be visual based. – Start preparing your presentation away from the computer. – Tell stories and entertain your audience. It’s not groundbreaking stuff, but it’s great to see the issue addressed by people like…
Since coming to work here I have had to learn a great many new things and one I have had to get up to speed with pretty quickly is using Powerpoint. But when time is of the essence sometimes you just need to cut to the chase and want someone to tell you how to…
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve got frustrated when I’ve found the perfect image for my Powerpoint slide only to find it is the wrong size and no amount of tweaking is going to help. Stretching it will distort the image too much, especially if you only pull it in one dimension. …
In this short video we explain the key similarities and differences between PowerPoint and Prezi. Key messages: If your speech is poor, neither tool will help you. PowerPoint has simple strengths for the average business presenter. Prezi has a couple of significant strengths if you want to stand out. Prezi for Professionals and Speech Transcript….
If you’ve read our blog post What are the Presentation Skills I Need? you already understand the importance of visual aids when you’re presenting. We’ve boiled down all of our advice about visual aids to ten golden rules – follow these, and you’ll always have your audience’s attention for the right reasons. 1. Do the…
Some research done in Germany earlier this year gives some surprising insight into the best ways of using PowerPoint for business presentations. Business presentations with poor visuals -whatever the ‘religion’ (Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Prezi)- is better read by the audience, than talked over by the presenter. Yup. Audiences retain more from a bad presentation accompanied by…
Here it is. In all of the detail about slide design, visual and verbal channels, psychology, and blah, blah, blah; I’ve finally found the image that cuts through all the crap. This is how every one of us should use PowerPoint- You’ve got an audience who are interested. You’ve got some complex terrain to get…
In developing our skills as presenters, it’s important to understand that we are using 2 ‘channels’ of information in our attempts to make the points we want to make- The visual elements of our presentation- which tend to dominate our audience’s perception of the moment, and The verbal elements to support to the visual impressions…