Seems to be a theme lately, in at least 4 conversations this came up this week and now a blog... maybe it's like the flu and everyone is gonna get it - it's certainly better than talking about "Google Apps going up against Microsoft" (I won't link it!) that a million people are talking about...
Me, give me a mic a stage and leave me to it and I'm a happy person. Make me create a presentation and normally you'll send it back to me 30 times before it changes from 6 slides to 60. Totally in sync with Ed and Dan (Dan commented) on this one in fact one of the reasons I like Zoho Show so much is that it's not got all the powerful little "gotchas" and animations and all that - sure they are fun but I want the people focused on me during the presentation not the slides themselves. I need to go read Presentation Zen now...
I use speaker notes and I use myself to bring the presentation across, if the slides are too complex or too much I get confused about what to say and I bounce.
Here's a short presentation I've done a few times on RSS for newbies the very basic level to bring it across to someone who has never used it...
Now I think I actually nailed this the right way - one I think you "get it" without me but I think I am able to motivate you to really "get it" with me presenting it.
Thanks to Ed though and the links I will be adjusting how I do things with slides from here on out!
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1 comments:
I could definitely handle that presentation...
- No standard template. Nice.
- Minimal text. Great.
- Pictures & graphics. Awesome.
- Even though there is an agenda, at least I now know that in 10 minutes I am a free man. Sweet!
As you can see, I am so opposed to bullet points that I am now going to annoyingly start using them in my comments for effect. :)
-ewH
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