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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

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

The abiding question on many lips in trying to improve presentation is, “Can we just use a little bit of text on our slides?” Of course you can. You can…

ffolliet
October 30, 2014
p2

How much data is too much data?

I recently had the privilige of presenting to the Dept. Paediatric Urology at Toronto Sick Kids Hospital. They were generally taken with the idea of a new method of presenting…

ffolliet
October 25, 2014
p2

Your powerpoint is not an autocue

One of the reasons some speakers are unwilling to change their presentation style is that their supportive media (p2) is actually an autocue; they simply read from it. This fails…

ffolliet
October 16, 2014
p2, p3

Illustrate, don’t annotate.

The route to a better presentation has been detailed in many previous blog posts. If I could give you only one tip to improve your next presentation it would be…

ffolliet
July 31, 2014
p2

It’s just not scientific…

Recently I shared ideas with a colleague about presentations and she significantly altered the supportive media (p2) of her upcoming presentation. She was very pleased with her performance and the…

ffolliet
June 24, 2014
p cubed, p1, p2, p3

I’m sorry…

…for this busy slide. I’m sorry I didn’t think this through as well as I might.I’m sorry that I don’t actually care very much about this topic.I’m sorry that I…

ffolliet
May 8, 2014
p2

What is the best, new tool in presentations?

An interesting post at The Harvard Business Review on Presentations discusses other new and exciting tools that may help in effective presentations. Sadly, I think they miss the point completely.…

ffolliet
April 28, 2014
p2, story

The maximum number of words on a slide is zero.

A recent question on twitter to me was, “What is the maximum number of words you can put on a slide?”Easy, the maximum number is zero!Seriously, asking the question shows…

ffolliet
April 7, 2014
p1, p2

retro fitted

Retro fitted presentations are really not very good….
format changes

Format changes often when a presentation is moved…
type not font

Type not font influences the reception of a…
sans comic sans

Life is better sans comic sans. Fontography is…
Least important part of any presentation

The p2, the supportive media, is the least…
No caption required

In a scientific article an illustration or a…
Single image per slide

When constructing a slide use only a single…
On generic slides

Generic slides are designed so that “anyone can…
data slides (1)

Data slides fail in a good scientific presentation…
Can you see this at the back?

The p2 is usually constructed on a laptop…