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

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…

  • Thank you!

    I was recently working with a colleague who…

  • That’s not what I meant by that picture

    A picture can paint a thousand words. It…

  • Here is a picture of a journal article

    If you want to read a journal article,…

  • Lessons from the Sensei (i) effective visual message

    I was privileged to spend time recently with…

  • What is the best presentation software?

    What is the best presentation software? There’s a…

  • It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

    The best books, the best films and the…

  • Lists only work for shopping

    If your p2 is a list You will…

  • What single purpose are your slides for?

      The challenge in improving presentations is significant….

  • No titles

    This is one of the greatest British Olympians…

  • Less is more. Or fewer, in fact.

    Less is more in design. The same applies…