I love Prezi as a visual aid as long as it’s used really well. I’ve whinged about it often, and I’ve written books, articles and posts imploring presenters, Prezi and the world to stop with all the ‘Look, isn’t it amazing to zoom, and spin…’ stuff. It doesn’t often happen, but Prezi and I agree…
A quick squint around the internet and you can pretty soon find loads of Prezi templates to buy or download – including a lot of free ones from Prezi themselves. In fact the Prezi website is clogged up with businesses churning out templates by the dozen. Some of the templates are useful, some look good,…
Can visual design be learned? That was the question posed on Quora recently and while not wanting to downplay the huge talent of so many good designers, it’s fair to say that design skills are something that many ‘non-designers’ have the ability to improve. Like any other skill it needs thinking, learning and practising. If…
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…
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…
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…
I was talking to a client the other day about Prezi, she’s an experienced PowerPoint presenter, and her take on the Prezis she’s seen was, and I quote- ‘It literally makes me sick. All that panning and zooming…’ I don’t think she meant ‘literally’ sick, but it’s the most common response I get when I…
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…
In an earlier post, I discussed the skills and knowledge which every presenter needs. I talked about the importance of visual and verbal ‘channels’ for speakers, and suggested that the visual leads our audiences’ response to us, and the verbal only really confirms or denies the impression that we and our images make. How to apply…