{"id":680,"date":"2010-04-24T08:58:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T07:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=680"},"modified":"2010-04-24T08:58:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T07:58:18","slug":"the-wisdom-of-alice-about-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/the-wisdom-of-alice-about-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"The wisdom of Alice, about presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take a quote from the children&#8217;s classic Alice In Wonderland&#8230;. :)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alice<\/strong>: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?<br \/>\n<strong>The Cat<\/strong>: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to<br \/>\n<strong>Alice<\/strong>: I don&#8217;t much care where.<br \/>\n<strong>The Cat<\/strong>: Then it doesn&#8217;t much matter which way you go.<br \/>\n<strong>Alice<\/strong>: \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6so long as I get somewhere.<br \/>\n<strong>The Cat<\/strong>: Oh, you&#8217;re sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s translate that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would be presenter<\/strong>: Would you tell me, please, what I should put in to my presentation here?<br \/>\n<strong>Would be adviser<\/strong>: That depends a good deal on what you want your presentation to achieve<br \/>\n<strong>Would be presenter<\/strong>: I don&#8217;t much care what the presentation achieves.<br \/>\n<strong>Would be adviser<\/strong>: Then it doesn&#8217;t much matter what you put into your presentation.<br \/>\n<strong>Would be presenter<\/strong>: &#8230;so long as it achieves something<br \/>\n<strong>Would be advisor<\/strong>: Oh, you&#8217;re sure to achieve something, so long as you keep talking long enough.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly tat last bit isn&#8217;t true.  And even if it was, it wouldn&#8217;t work because the audience would stop listening long before then!<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember howwwww many times I&#8217;ve said this: if you don&#8217;t know exactly what your presentation is trying to achieve, how will you know if you&#8217;ve achieved it?!?  How will you even know how you <strong>should<\/strong> achieve it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take a quote from the children&#8217;s classic Alice In Wonderland&#8230;. :) Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cat: That depends a good deal on where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","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\/680","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}