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.

Cornerstone posts include.

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…

  • Credit where credit is due.

    In a previous post I recalled my sadness…

  • On QR codes

        QR codes are perfect in certain…

  • Feel better, not more

    For some presenters, there is a striving after…

  • Where are your slides?

    A great presentation is the product of three…

  • er…thank you?

    A sentence without the final word is. A…

  • The Greatest Presentation in the World (tribute)

    As titles of talks go, that is something…

  • Pictures don’t need titles

    Imagine a beautiful picture, perhaps a sunset or…

  • Miles ahead

      Miles Davis, improvisational jazz wonder developed a…

  • One at a time please? One at a time

    If you are going to use images in…

  • just for reference- don’t

    Big hair, flares, shoulder pads, mini skirts, wide…