I promised in my last book update that I’d be open about the process of writing, so I guess I’d better start with what tools I’m using. After all, everything else flows from that. No […]
Okay, so where are we then? It’s been a bit confusing and a bit exciting on the book front. For example, last week I met Victoria, my editor and a couple of other folks at […]
A few days ago I posted a presentation tips tweet and – because of the 140 characters limit in twitter it was necessarily brief and terse. I’d intended it to be an invocation for presenters […]
Are you ready? Fanfare Please! Well here’s some big news. I’ve just agreed to do another book! It’s to be part of the big, new series from Hodder & Staughton – the Science of […]
There are no ‘rules’ for presenting. Well, okay… don’t read 12 point text off the screen with your back to the audience is pretty close, I admit. But basically whatever works, works. That means it’s […]
Glorious Or safe? The build-up to the FA Cup final a little while ago (17th May,2014) described Hull’s run to the final as ‘glorious’. It also described Arsenal as ‘safe but dull’. Now before anyone gets […]
I suffered the ignominy of feedback recently. Oh, the shame! The horror! Me! With a microphone that howled like a banshee for a moment until I pulled back from the speaker that was complaining. What […]
I don’t suppose the lovely Beyonce goes on stage without rehearsing… oh no… but there’s some interesting stuff about how useful it is to practice, just here: http://www.spring.org.uk/2014/07/the-10000-hours-myth-practice-predicts-only-12-of-performance.php There are a lot of myths around […]
In this week’s TES (which hit my letterbox on Friday 4th July) there’s an article about the idea of teaching/using oracy as a tool in schools – both as something to be taught and as as way of […]
You’ll have heard the old saying about how swans look cool, calm and collected on the surface but if you see underwater footage, you can see them paddling like mad… so it is with presentations. […]
I’m going to stick my neck out here and say that the revolution is over. What revolution? The revolution that started a few years ago with posts from Garr Reynold’s venerable Presentation Zen website and […]
Well Happy Easter everyone. And as an alternative to chocolate eggs and bunnies, we’re giving away our latest Ebook. To get 84 Presentation Tips for nothing (yes, nowt, nadda!), just use the coupon code EASTER14. […]
Well, it’s not just here, it’s there… and by ‘there’ I mean there’s more goodness in our (almost) monthly tipsheets and newsletters. If you like April you can go back to February’s (for example). Fancy this emailed […]