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

thank you

Thank you!

I was recently working with a colleague who had developed an excellent presentation. The final slide was incongruous. It had a beautiful image with the words “Thank you” on it. Your…

picture

That’s not what I meant by that picture

A picture can paint a thousand words. It is important that an image within p2 paints the words the presenter intends the audience to hear. A single image may have multiple meanings. It…

one purpose

What single purpose are your slides for?

  The challenge in improving presentations is significant. This is due to a multitude of reasons. One of the fundamental issues though is the supportive media (p2) and addressing the…

  • Einstein

    This applies to your story (p1)This applies to…

  • Pies are for eating.

    This is a pie chart.   This a…

  • Your (data) slides suck.

    I have previously commented, perhaps too obliquely, on…

  • My Boss won’t like it…

    This isn’t another post persuading you to give…

  • I’m not confident enough to give up bulletpoints

    A recent discussion on twitter highlighted a problem….

  • This is a blog post

    This is the introductory paragraph. It is difficult…

  • You’ve got 3 seconds…

    Nancy Duarte (amongst others) suggests in her meisterwerk…

  • Reduce, reduce, reduce

  • Laid on the beach thinking…

    Instead of thiswhy not leave footprints?

  • But…

    It’s an important meetingI have lots of facts…