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

Quick copy this down!

When making an academic presentation it is often valuable to quote the literature. Quote means to speak. Don’t write it down, it is not valuable.There is an increasing tendency to…

LMGTFY

“How does one get images for a presentation?” is a question I am frequently asked. The answer is the same as so many other questions we have. Ask you friendly…

It’s not about the slides

As Lance Armstrong famously entitled his book on “winning” the Tour de France, “It’s not about the bike.” So, with presentations, it is not about the slides. They are important.…

One message per slide

In the last blogpost I suggested the best place to start improving #presentationskills is by deleting the slide set. The rationale behind that statement was not to suggest that presentations…

Delete your slides

I received a question via Twitter about #presentationskills and where I might focus beginning the journey of improvement. As with so many things, the more I considered the issue the…

That’s a paper, not a slide

As conference season gets into full swing more and more presenters are showing audiences that their thoughts are built upon previous work. That is often very important. What is not…

Design affects function

Simple design changes in the supportive media  make dramatic differences to the audience’s perception of value in a presentation. The overall value of a presentation (p cubed) is the product…

  • 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,…