{"id":169,"date":"2008-09-24T22:27:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T21:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2008-09-24T22:27:47","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T21:27:47","slug":"tell-it-to-my-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/tell-it-to-my-mum\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell It To My Mum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got some spam recently asking if I wanted to join (yet another!) networking site.  I&#8217;m a cynic about these things but I thought I&#8217;d poke around anyway.  The jury&#8217;s out but that&#8217;s not what caught my eye.  In a blog entry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/pda\/2008\/apr\/09\/elevatorpitchworkologysnew\">here<\/a> there&#8217;s a great phrase which caught my imagination for networking <strong>and presenting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a simple idia &#8211; painfully simple.  Your presentation should xplain things as though you were explaining them to my mum.  If you can&#8217;t do that you&#8217;re not in the ballpark.  Either your trying to do far, far too much in a presentation or you don&#8217;t really understand what you&#8217;ve got to say.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a bit harsh, but you know what I mean&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.. and nor do you know my mother!  :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got some spam recently asking if I wanted to join (yet another!) networking site. I&#8217;m a cynic about these things but I thought I&#8217;d poke around anyway. The jury&#8217;s out but that&#8217;s not what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}