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

Why does good design work?

I have been struggling with the question of “Why does good design work?”All presentations (p2) are designed in that they didn’t just fall straight from the heavens. Some work and some don’t.…

Where’s Wally?

The point of a data slide is a quick, easily interpreted, graphic representation of numerical data. The audience should be able to grasp the meaning themselves within seconds, ideally without…

Images work on their own.

Images work because we can look and see, interrogate and question, pick up nuances and emotions and connect in a way that words simply limit and constrain. Written words seldom…

  • The best slide in the world, ever…

    One of the biggest problems of text based…

  • Elevator pitch

    In business there is a concept of the…

  • Your “powerpoint” is not the message, it supports the message.

    I did a little talk in late November…

  • @ffolliet would be proud…(2)

    More pride as more friends and colleagues make…

  • To corporate or not co-operate?

    There is little that depresses me more at…

  • You’re boring me.

    Seriously, I’ve heard this all before. You need…

  • Supportive Media (p2)

    In the classification I have developed as part…

  • @ffolliet would be proud… (1)

    I’m touched that I have become a touchstone…

  • Say what you see?

    The supporting media (p2) of a presentation should…

  • PechaKucha :Twenty, 20 sec tips.

    I recently had the opportunity to present at…