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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.

Cornerstone posts include.

p2 posts

Pictures don’t need titles

Imagine a beautiful picture, perhaps a sunset or a portrait, destroyed by patronising words on top of it. If a picture requires words to render it comprehensible the image is…

ffolliet
June 21, 2016
p2

Miles ahead

Miles Davis, improvisational jazz wonder developed a new form of jazz outwith the accepted boundaries of music. He eschewed accepted understanding of chords and scales and gave the world…

ffolliet
June 19, 2016
p1, p2

One at a time please? One at a time

If you are going to use images in a presentation use them only one at a time. Multiple images in a slide are impossible to look at comfortably. The eye…

ffolliet
June 2, 2016
p1, p2

just for reference- don’t

Big hair, flares, shoulder pads, mini skirts, wide ties, skinny jeans, platform shoes and putting references in powerpoint slides in a tiny font at the bottom of a slide. Just…

ffolliet
May 27, 2016
p2

Which part of your preparation took the most time?

A great presentation takes time. None of them fall from the heavens perfectly constructed and no great presenter steps on the stage having just written their piece last night. So…

ffolliet
May 26, 2016
p cubed, p1, p2, p3, practise

reflections on failure

So, I stepped onto the stage to give a Keynote presentation having checked and run through the whole IT setup, twice. The IT guy pressed the button to swap from…

ffolliet
May 1, 2016
p2

Ok, hands up who DIDN’T fall for it?

The last blogpost was written and published 2 days ago. On the 1st of the month. On the 1st day in April… I know some folk view me as some…

ffolliet
April 3, 2016
p2

Design- going retro is hip.

Slide design (p2) changes with time. Consider today and what is regarded as the norm for a slide and then consider how “Presenter” (powerpoint) started back before the Internet. At…

ffolliet
April 1, 2016
p2

I know

In the Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes…
Why do you have slides?

Why do you have slides in your presentation?…
Schrodinger’s slides

Schrodinger’s slides are both there and not there…
Dance on the radio

Dance is a beautiful medium conveying story, emotion,…
Font choice matters

Font choice matters; they change the impact and…
Screens are not books

Screens are not books. Reading from a screen…
Mobile phones

Mobile phones are a part of our existence….
A quotation

A quotation often serves an elegant and memorable…
QR code

A QR code is a valuable tool in…
Conference template

Scientific organisations frequently prescribe a specific conference template….