{"id":888,"date":"2011-07-25T15:27:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T14:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=888"},"modified":"2011-07-25T15:27:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T14:27:52","slug":"teaching-the-dewey-decimal-system-for-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/teaching-the-dewey-decimal-system-for-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching the Dewey Decimal system for presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s no tip in this entry… just an ida to think about! \u00c2\u00a0:)<\/p>\n

A librarian I know once told me that a book in the wrong place in a library may as well not exist. People can’t find it when they look for it. \u00c2\u00a0That means they can’t take it out, they can’t read it and they can’t discover what’s on the pages. \u00c2\u00a0Boring though it is, he said, the Dewey Decimal system<\/a> is the lifeblood of being a librarian – it’s how books are located and, therefore, how the contents of those books is passed on.<\/p>\n

I didn’t see the parallel until towards the end of our cup of coffee together.<\/p>\n

Presentations are to most people’s work what the Dewey system is to the users of a library. \u00c2\u00a0No matter how good the book, if no one can find it, it’s wasted. \u00c2\u00a0No matter how good your ideas, if no one knows about them, they’re wasted.<\/p>\n

I’m not saying a good delivery system means you don’t need good material, but without it, your material might never get taken out of the library… :)<\/p>\n

Think about it – how long have you ever spent searching through your CD collection for something you knew was there? \u00c2\u00a0I’ll put money on the fact that you’ve done that – everyone has… and you found it, no doubt. \u00c2\u00a0The thing is, not only was it your<\/strong> CD collection but you already knew what was there. \u00c2\u00a0Would someone else have spent so long diligently searching for the right track for the moment? \u00c2\u00a0No. \u00c2\u00a0They’d have settled for the first track that they found which worked.<\/p>\n

… or, more likely, gone to someone else’s collection! :)<\/p>\n

How long do you think people will listen to your unstructured presentations? Would they even turn up? \u00c2\u00a0Life’s not just about what you know – it’s about how you present and communicate it. \u00c2\u00a0The best ideas get lost if they don’t have a Dewey System!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s no tip in this entry… just an ida to think about! \u00c2\u00a0:) A librarian I know once told me that a book in the wrong place in a library may as well not exist. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-blog-related","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","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=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}