I’ve heard a lot of fuss and hype around some presentation software called prezi. Â It’s an alternative to Keynote and Powerpoint, in that it’s designed to create the visual aids (aka a slideshow) that goes […]
It seems to be more and more common (to me, at least) to turn the normal-but-unwanted-and-perhaps-a-bit-unusual into a clinical condition. Â People aren’t short tempered any more, they’re suffering from Temper Restraint Disorder Syndrome; okay, I […]
I’ve been doing some reading recently (sorry!) for a course I’m designing. Â I came across the idea that emotions on the ‘spectrum’ of Anxiety are caused by uncertain goals, that Angry-type emotions are caused by […]
There’s stuff all over the ‘net about how a good presentation should be like a conversation with your audience. Â By that, the authors are (as far as I can tell) generally trying to get away […]
I sat through two bad presentations and a great one the other day. Â The great one was designed to simply give people information they could use to help market their businesses. It was fun, fast […]
Oh, good grief! I have Google Alerts set up for key phrases that interest us – things to do with presentations and presenting etc. Â Today I got one which linked to this aid for public […]
You might not know I blog somewhere else, as well as here. Â No? Â Well I’ve not mentioned it before. Â Blokesontheblog.co.uk is exactly that – bunch of British Blokes, blogging. Â It’s eclectic and entertaining. Â It’s not […]
We all know the adage. Â We all know it’s true. Â (Okay, there are pictures out there that aren’t worth the price of the crayons they’ve been drawn with – the London 2012 logo, anyone?) Â But […]
….that if you can’t explain it to a child (he even gave it an age!) then you don’t really understand it. Sounds like good advice about making presentations, to me. I’m often struck by the […]
Last week, I wrote a short article for insurers and accountants and… well, anyone who has to give technical presentations… presentations which, no matter how important they may be, sometimes fail to set the world […]
….or in fact pretty much anyone who’s got a very technical subject matter that needs to be talked about….! :) For whatever reason, we’ve spent a lot of time training engineers and other technical types […]
I remember being told once, long ago, way back in the mists of time, that you can’t make presentations if you’re not fit and that, conversely, presenting is such a high energy activity that you […]
I recently had a client who wanted to have one-on-one training in making presentations. After a free taster session I decided that this wasn’t the best way forward for him and suggested that he looked […]