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

Never say, “I’m sorry.”

There is no place in a presentation for apologies. There should be nothing in your preparation that would cause you to apologise and nothing in your delivery that you should…

Text in presentations

For the benefit of clarity, I am not against text in presentations. The goal of the perfect presentation (p2) is NOT simply to eradicate all text. The goal of the…

One word for templates.

  One word for templates. No If you want to give a great presentation, don’t use a template. There are so many problems with templates that detract from a great…

Consistency is the key

Consistency adds significantly to a presentation. If you can develop a theme, a motif or an emblem to which you frequently return during your presentation, this structure adds to a…

Less pies

The use of charts to visually display data is helpful in a presentation. Care is required to ensure that the correct message is transmitted. Pie charts are currently dominating presentation…

Herding chickens

The major drawback of text on screen is that the audience cannot help but read it. Mountain View Ca. They are hypnotised like a chicken. It is important in construction…

Do not use this.

Fontography 102. The font that you chose to use in your presentation “says” something about you. It is essential that you consider this in design of p2. Clearly there are…

  • What sort of presenter are you?

    One of the tests of a descriptive model…

  • Changing your slides won’t improve your presentation. (much)

    Too often I hear people say, “I really…

  • One word for Prezi.

    No.   I know it’s non linear. I…

  • Read these.

    33 blog posts, about 80 page views a…

  • scientific bulletpoints

    There is a feeling that a presentation can’t…

  • You’re an idiot.

    No really! I have such concerns for your…

  • I’ll talk you through this data slide…

    Data slides usually resemble a “Where’s Wally?” picture….

  • Don’t put the cart before the horse.

    To develop presentations, one must move away from…

  • They are all the same!

    It is astounding that, right now, across the…

  • Are you talking to ME?

    In the movie “Taxi Driver” Rober de Niro…