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Do you need PechaKucha?

15/10/2013 /

PechaKucha is a simple presentation format where you show 20 slides that display for 20 seconds each, so that the presenter has only 6 minutes and 40 seconds in all for his/her presentation.

The name comes from a Japanese term meaning “chatter”. The basic idea is to force the presenter to speak concisely, precisely and clearly by using mainly images.

For this reason, PechaKucha is a great format for presentations at schools or for meetings in offices, in those occasions where conciseness is particularly important.

If you want some tips to realize your personal PechaKucha, read more on http://bit.ly/1cBv9QD or just visit the PechaKucha official site.

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Image source: Pixabay (CC0)

Five Presentation Mistakes Everyone Makes

20/08/2013 /

Nancy Duarte has published several books on presentations. The last one is the HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations. Here are some of her tips on creating and delivering presentations.

We all know what it’s like to sit through a bad presentation. We can easily spot the flaws — too long, too boring, indecipherable, what have you — when we watch others speak. The thing is, when we take the stage ourselves, many of us fall into the same traps.

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Illustration by Andrew Joyner on Businessweek.com

Here are five of the most common, along with some tips on how to avoid them.

  1. Failing to engage emotionally : Try opening with a story your audience can relate to, for example, or including analogies that make your data more meaningful.
  2. Asking too much of your slides: Create handouts from all that text you’ve pulled off your slides and moved into “notes.”
  3. Trotting out tired visuals:  Brainstorm lots of visual concepts — and throw away the first ones that came to mind.
  4. Speaking in jargon:  If they can’t follow your ideas, they won’t adopt them.
  5. Going over your allotted time:  There’s nothing worse than a presentation that seems like it will never end.

Read more at http://goo.gl/jE9dq

9 Rules to Avoid Murder by PowerPoint

23/04/2013 /

Have you ever done a PowerPoint presentation? Probably yes. Do you think it has always been compelling and memorable? We do not think so!              Many presentations are boring and quite bad.

In his article, Aaron Couch provides a list of advices to make PowerPoint more enjoyable to read and simple to understand.

  1. Begin with an outline
  2. Be consistent with the theme and layout
  3. Forget clipart, crazy sounds and fancy transitions
  4. Do not read your Power Point
  5. Get to the point
  6. Use media but quality media
  7. Use the resources available to you
  8. Practice. Practice. Practice
  9. It all lies on you: the presenter

Read the full article at : http://tiny.cc/zl7snw

Image source: http://tiny.cc/f28snw

The Seven Weak Points of a Speech

05/07/2012 /

Mrmediatraining.com provides a list of the seven main causes that could make a speech uninteresting and boring:

1. Your Introduction Failed to Interest Me
2. One Thought Ran Into The Next
3. You Loaded The Speech With Technical Detail
4. Your Delivery Was Sleep-Inducing
5. You Didn’t Tell Me What You Wanted
6. You Read From Your PowerPoint
7. You Didn’t Manage the Question and Answer Period

Read the full post at: http://www.mrmediatraining.com/index.php/2011/10/27/seven-reasons-i-hated-your-speech/

Death by Powerpoint

21/05/2012 /

What are the most common mistakes in Powerpoint presentations? With his humor Don McMillan shows in his effective 10 minutes video “Life after death by Powerpoint” what should be avoided.

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