30 presentation posts

You might have noticed, but I’ve been posting more, recently. In fact for the last month I’ve taken on Sarah Arrow’s 30 day challenge. The idea is to write thirty blog posts in as many days. I didn’t manage it – but almost… I’ve missed a few days and (I have to confess) that not every post is as good as it would be if I’d had more time. But having said that, there are some posts I think it’s worth seeing again.

Dancing in your presentations

Waltzing_together_statue Ref Wikimedia

I first made the analogy between presenting and dancing towards the end of a blog called Naked Presentations, which included a selfie (honest!) and I got some cool feedback about the idea, so I took it further in a follow-up post called The Presentation Waltz. To be honest, I probably overworked the analogy but it’s worth taking a look.

Keeping it simple

I‘ve been reading a lot about cognitive load, recently. In fact it’s pretty darn important in my new book. (You didn’t know there was a book!  Have you been living on the moon or is my marketing just rubbish!?) In one of the shortest posts I’ve written in a long, long time, a simple visual makes the point nicely here.

Sucky presentations

Another of my favorites is the deliberately controversial “Your Presentations Suck“. :) Like another post, written a few days earlier it’s a bit of a shocker, a bit in your face: the latter asks the question about whether your presentation is worth trying to make in the first place…

Speaking of which, another posting which was pretty blunt about things was based on my time working as a technical director in theatres (caution, rude word warning!)

Bullet point presentations

A list file – just to show there’s a lot to think about.

Finally, my favourite blog presentations post for quite some time – why you should use bullet points in your presentations. (No, really!) Most people, of course, use them because they don’t know any better and the enlightened amongst us use different techniques… but for super-enllightened we can go back to bullet points (sometimes). After all, what’s the point of having rules if you’re not allowed to break ’em?!

And so over to you, oh gentle reader… what’s been your favourite blog of the 30 post challenge?