A fire is an emergency, pretty clearly. The last thing the firefighters involved want to be doing when they’re dealing with the fire is messing around looking for hydrants (water supplies) or trying to guess […]
With our tongues firmly in our cheeks, we’ve put together a set of, well, we would call them infographics, but that would be flattering them a bit! :) The first one we already posted last […]
No matter how good you are at making presentations (no matter how good we train you to be! :) ) sometimes you can’t be a professional speaker. Depressing for some – a reality check for […]
The old ones are the best, so they say… I’m not sure it’s true about music and jokes but in the last few weeks I’ve sat through some presentations that disappointed me – not only […]
Dialect is a funny beast – and treacherous, too. Used correctly it can increase the chances of rapport between a speaker and their audience… it creates a sense of togetherness and a shared cultural background. […]
I’ve written (ranted) about how mediocre presentations are accepted and even mediocre stuff is praised. Even in meetings of organisations aimed at improving the quality of presentations there can be a fairly serious disconnection between […]
All the Gear and No Idea I’ll bet you know them – people who have expensive hobbies one after the other… Maybe they are into digital photography but their pics aren’t interesting, no matter how […]
If you follow us on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/awareplus) you’ll have seen this video already: it’s Beyonce doing what Beyonce does (not the having babies thing, the singing thing) at the United Nations World Humanitarian Day, 2012. […]
I have my own set of five rules for presenting, which you can download here – but this video from Nancy Duarte makes great points – it’s well worth a watch. (Well, the first […]
in the same way that the pen is not the letter, or the novel. Simple, really! So why do so many people confuse the two? Why do so many otherwise smart people rush to their […]
I’m working with some pretty cool people at the moment, with pretty important jobs. A large part of the presentations they have to make are about things which are really (no, really, seriously!) important – […]
… be a voice. It’s all too easy in presentations to fall back on the ‘standard’ ways of doing things… templates and formulae. There isn’t anything wrong with either of these ideas in principle (and […]
Honestly, there’s some utter rubbish out there! Try this one, for example. To be fair, though, much of the rubbish is well-intentioned rubbish! :) The main problem I see with online ‘hints and tips’ articles […]