slideument
A slideument is the bastard child of a document and slideset used as a script and frequently printed as a handout.
Chicken or egg? Both are wrong
I recently had the privilige of being interviewed by Jesse Spurr for his Injectable Orange podcast. One of topics we chatted about was the ‘ole standard of “why do we…
Patronising your audience
The scientific literature is clear regarding the many proven behavioural flaws in the nature of a standard “powerpoint” delivery. My “Presentations Skills” presentation has expanded to cover more of the…
But…
It’s an important meeting I have lots of facts to deliver I didn’t have time People expect it It’s my script I need it for confidence I can print it…
Read these.
33 blog posts, about 80 page views a day and over 6500 total views suggest that some folk are interested in what is being written about here. It is a…
scientific bulletpoints
There is a feeling that a presentation can’t be “scientific” unless it has bulletpoints, that transfer of information requires a list of facts on the board and that these should…
Download complete?
In considering the audience and what they expect from a speaker, too often the implicit understanding of the purpose of the presentation is of an information download. This directly affects…
One change for dramatic improvement. (you won’t do it!)
I’m rather hoping that frequent visitors to the blog will have taken to heart some of the important concepts of presentation. Perhaps my deepest insight has been the p3 concept. The…
Don’t put the cart before the horse.
To develop presentations, one must move away from the concept of looking at the text on a slide and asking how can this be improved by reduction and illustration. This is…