p2

The supportive media (p2) is everything that adds to the story (p1) in its delivery (p3) whether as a presentation or visual aids. If you have visited the site looking for tips on using powerpoint, you will be disappointed. The discussion is around design concepts, use of text in slides, images and data slides used to illustrate and support the message. It is the least important part of a presentation and some presentations may even be better without slides! Most importantly, the .ppt file is not your presentation.

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p2 posts

I need to present more data. You don’t

A frequent question from clinicians about presentations involves “all the data I need in my presentation.” I’ve addressed this before in various posts but it bears repeating. At a scientific…

How to use a bulletpoint…

Professor John Ioanidis from Stanford University spoke at The Cochrane Colloquia in Vienna yesterday. His opinion on systematic reviews in biomedical research is that they are unreliable. I know this…

Prepare for failure

SO, the Chair has introduced you and you stride up to the stage, there’s a flicker behind you and your title slide appears on the 20m high screen. You press…

Simple design tip #1

Justify your title, don’t center it. I know that’s what the template does but that means there are probably 20 million just like it being delivered today. The centre justification…

It’s .pptx not .docx

A common mistake in attempting to deliver a (scientific) paper is the failure to recognise the difference between a document and a presentation. They are not the same. Perhaps the…

  • One Hundred Posts!

    Way back in March 2013 I published my…

  • The 5 Ps of Presentation

    In order to improve the value of a…

  • Can we use just a little bit of text? Please?

    The abiding question on many lips in trying…

  • How much data is too much data?

    I recently had the privilige of presenting to…

  • Your powerpoint is not an autocue

    One of the reasons some speakers are unwilling…

  • Illustrate, don’t annotate.

    The route to a better presentation has been…

  • It’s just not scientific…

    Recently I shared ideas with a colleague about…

  • I’m sorry…

    …for this busy slide.I’m sorry I didn’t think…

  • What is the best, new tool in presentations?

    An interesting post at The Harvard Business Review…

  • The maximum number of words on a slide is zero.

    A recent question on twitter to me was,…