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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The best slide in the world, ever…

One of the biggest problems of text based supportive media (p2) [your “presentation”] is that the audience pay more attention to it than to you. This has been discussed in…

Elevator pitch

In business there is a concept of the “elevator pitch.” Effectively, if you happened to get into a lift with a potential customer, could you deliver your pitch within the…

To corporate or not co-operate?

There is little that depresses me more at a meeting than a poor presentation, save for a poor presentation awash with corporate logos. The (poor) argument for their use on every slide…

You’re boring me.

Seriously, I’ve heard this all before. You need a presentation on your cv You’ve asked the boss who said, “please review my last x cases of” something not very interesting.…

Supportive Media (p2)

In the classification I have developed as part of the thinking about presentations I have detailed the “PowerPoint” as p2, supportive media. The inference is clear that this neither represents…

@ffolliet would be proud… (1)

I’m touched that I have become a touchstone for presentation matters amongst a fair number of twitter followers. It is encouraging to have people send me their latest presentation and…

  • 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,…