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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

Pictures of slides

Pictures of slides are intended by the photographer…
Roadmaps are for roads

Roadmaps are for roads, not presentations. Setting out…
Please don’t do this

https://twitter.com/ffolliet/status/1461080078285258758 Please don’t do this in presentations. It…
Images should explain themselves

Images should explain themselves with clarity being added…
Fewer slides in the online environment

Fewer slides in the online environment will lead…
Holby City NHS Trust

Holby City NHS Trust is a fictional hospital…
Tell me your data

Tell me your data so that I can…
Stop using templates

Stop using slide templates. They reduce slide real…
p2 in a webinar

p2 in a webinar should be no different…
On the twelfth day of Christmas…

On the twelfth day of Christmas… …my true…