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

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…

  • Pictures of slides

    Pictures of slides are intended by the photographer…

  • Roadmaps are for roads

    Roadmaps are for roads, not presentations. Setting out…

  • Please don’t do this

    https://twitter.com/ffolliet/status/1461080078285258758 Please don’t do this in presentations. It…

  • Images should explain themselves

    Images should explain themselves with clarity being added…

  • Fewer slides in the online environment

    Fewer slides in the online environment will lead…

  • Holby City NHS Trust

    Holby City NHS Trust is a fictional hospital…

  • Tell me your data

    Tell me your data so that I can…

  • Stop using templates

    Stop using slide templates. They reduce slide real…

  • p2 in a webinar

    p2 in a webinar should be no different…

  • On the twelfth day of Christmas…

    On the twelfth day of Christmas… …my true…