how to lay out the room for your presentation
How your room is set up makes a huge difference to how well your presentation is likely to go. Lots of it is obvious but some not…
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interactivity in presentation slides
Just to be clear, I’m not talking about interacting with the slides themselves (that’s a different blog). I’m talking about interacting with your audience when your presentation uses slides. After all, one of the big things that Prezi claims is that it allows you to jump around your presentation in a non-linear way, making for …
How to Replace Bullet Points in Presentations
So you’ve heard of “death by powerpoint” and you’ve all be shot at by the screen-full of bullet points on a slide. And you promised not to do it to your audiences – but you did. Why? Because knowing how to replace bullet points just doesn’t seem ‘do-able’. If the presentations you sit through are …
why journalism has no place in presentations
This one has been nagging at the back of my head for a long time and I might piss a few slick, professional presenters off. I’m braced… but it needs to be said for the sake of audiences and presenters. Here’s the big message – there’s a bit difference between what I’m going to call …
How to end your presentation
I’ve talked before about one of the best ways to start your presentation, so here’s the other bookend – the close of a presentation. Let’s talk about questions and let’s talk about applause. Your audience expects one of these at the end of your presentation and you might hope for the other. So I’m going …
presentation delivery vs content vs structure
Great delivery can’t save rubbish content. We often forget that there are three key parts to an outstanding presentation… it’s not just (or even mainly) about how well you present in the room
tell stories in your presentations (nope!)
We’re all told to tell stories when we present – but that’s lazy advice. Presentations aren’t about the stories… it’s how you USE the stories that takes a presentation into the ‘wowzone’
our presenters response to covid19
I was supposed to be launching my first physical product (other than a book) right now. It’s got astonishing feedback and was getting traction. You can see it for yourself over at design.presentationgenius.info. It’s a cracking product and people loved it… … but… … I’ve decided not to push the Presentation Design Pack because it …
online presentations
Because of the Corona Virus, lots of people are asking me for urgent help with their online presentations. I’ve split this post into two parts – general help about online presentations and how they’re different from in-the-room presentations and then some specific stuff about the “software de jour” to do that with – Zoom. Some …
