You’re going to look around a house that you’re thinking of buying. It’s a a Saturday morning. You’re making a commitment. You’ve given up 2 hours of your valuable time, and you’ve left the kids with Grandma. The details of the property looked good enough, the price seemed right, and the sun is shining as…
PowerPoint slides, bullets, data, Waffle, jargon, handouts (paper), Anecdotes with no punchline, Or point to help you underline. Music, graphics, sound effects, That simply, don’t support the text. Images that make no sense, Or patronise the audience. Graphs and charts of pie or venn, The thoughts of Chairman Mao or Zen, Buddhists when your thoughts…
In the fusty old world of presentation software there’s a new kid on the block claiming to be a PowerPoint ‘Killer’. Is it any good, or just another loudmouth looking for a lucky break? Here are a few answers to your questions… What is Prezi? In a nutshell, Prezi is a ‘Flash’-based presentation software that allows…
Remember that great visuals support the spoken words and the speaker. They are there to emphasise your key points, not to make them. Such visual emphasis will help the audience understand what you mean, not just what you say. Here’s 10 tips from all of our years of helping the message get through. Do the visuals only after…
What is Prezi? In a nutshell, Prezi is a Flash-based presentation system that allows users to create incredibly dynamic presentations. Presentations where you can zoom in and out across a large area (no slides), create motion paths, embed images and video and do things that previously needed a pretty competent Flash developer and a whole…
I know it’s not the thing, but the way you use the thing that’s really the most important thing (With me so far?) But sometimeas a thing comes along that makes you want to dance and sing with joy. Prezi is that thing. What is it? It’s just a presentation software package It’s very good value…
Role models, free lessons, blogs and other ways of keeping you sharp. 1. Watch the way that TV news (anything but CNN where there’s just too much going on) tells a story with graphics, text and voice. 2. Look at the structure of a story in a newspaper, notice the headline, the grabber first paragraph…
I started flicking through the book and read a few parts of it and I was overtaken by an awful sense of dread. A light went out forever for me, and it’s all Cliff’s fault. Beyond Bullet Points (BBP) is a REALLY GOOD BOOK. In my mind, it was me who was going to write…
PowerPoint slides, jokes, data, Waffle, jargon, handouts (paper), Anecdotes with no punchline, Or point to help you underline, Music, graphics, sound effects That do not support the text, Images that make no sense Or patronise the audience Graphs and charts of pie or venn The thoughts of Chairman Mao or Zen Buddhists when…