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Dilbert fun about PowerPoint Presentation

March 10, 2010 in From the Web, Language : English, Speaking Tips, Varia | No comments

Over the years, Dilbert’s characters have been dealing with lots of PowerPoint Presentation (should I say BAD presentation?).

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Thanks to PowerPoint Ninja for collecting those strip.

If you want more, you can see the entire collection on PowerPoint Ninja post.

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I Present Naked to the Board of Directors

February 15, 2010 in Ad, Corporate Presentability, Language : English, Speaking Tips | No comments

New stunning campaign from Citrix for is GoToMeeting solution. A true eyes catching ad, with an intriguing message.

How can you be naked to present to the board or to collaborate with coworkers? (see picture beside from Los Angeles Airport).

You have to use GoToMeeting. It is a solution for online meeting.

The message is simple: you can do your meeting from the comfort of your home without the office dressing code (or naked if you prefer).

Citrix targets a growing trend in business. Telecommuting (not nakedness!).

Pure effectiveness. I like that campaign.

Really naked

Is there people participating to online meeting naked? According to a recent study, yes (CNBC).

About one in five UK participants in conference calls have called in while naked. Almost half have worn only their underwear while 68 percent have only worn pajamas, a survey by BT Conferencing showed Wednesday.

Is it the start of a new trend?

How would you feel to really present naked?

In 2005 Garr Reynolds post a brilliant article: Make your next presentation naked. It is not about removing clothes, but removing everything that is not contributing to the message.

Being naked involves stripping away all that is unnecessary to get at the essence of your message. The naked presenter approaches the presentation task embracing the ideas of simplicity, clarity, honesty, integrity, and passion.

According to this post, you should “Present naked to the board of directors”.

Twitter campaign

To my knowledge, Citrix is one of the first to use a Twitter hashtag in a billboard campaign (Twitter is a social media and a hashtag is a keyword helping people categorize the information. The # symbol is preceding the keyword.)

For the campaign, Citrix have chosen the hashtag #getnaked and they are suggesting people to publish their story on Twitter.

You can search Twitter with the hashtag and see the contributions of the users.

The campaign is not targeting the technological challenged people. It is targeting those who use and understand those technologies.

Citrix is innovating with this campaign in leveraging the social media. Good move.

We will see more and more of this kind of campaign

Some fun

On the lighter side, here are some of the gems I found searching Twitter with the #getnaked hashtag.

Air New Zealand shows how to present naked. Video from airline. Must see.

http://twitpic.com/12frcu – I guess working at home has it’s perks… #workshifting #getnaked (voiture sous la neige)

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Why You Should Put Less Text in Your Slides

January 2, 2010 in Ideas Presentability, Language : English, Slides, Speaking Tips | 6 comments

Most people complain about boring presentation that uses slides that looks like walls of text.

The brain don’t have the ability to listen et read all that text at the same time.

According to Microsoft, the average slide shows 40 words.

25 Years of PowerPoint

The BBC published an interesting article about the subject

You think bullet points make information more digestible? Think again. A dozen slides with five bullet points on each assumes that people are mentally capable of taking in a list of 60 points. If it’s a 30-minute presentation, that’s a rate of two-per-minute.

This looks a fairly interesting visual aid

This highlights the biggest problem with slide-based presentations, which is that speakers mistakenly think that they can get far more information across than is actually possible in a presentation.

I invite you to read the BBC article.

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How to create a magazine cutout look for your next presentation

December 18, 2009 in Language : English, Slides, Speaking Tips | 4 comments

Does all the corporate presentation look the same? Boring plain corporate template?

David Anderson demonstrates, in this online tutorial, how to create a different slide design for your next presentation. It is a magazine cutout look.

This tutorial is for E-learning Design and Development. However, as it is based on PowerPoint, we can use some of its ideas for public speaking.

By David Anderson. You can reach him on Twitter (@elearning) & at multimedialearning.com

UPDATE: Vivek Singh published some pertinent observations about this magazine cutout look:

1. Situation: You need to know when to use this technique and how. This template design should be used for informal situations and definitely not for quarterly review presentations. However, marketers and advertising professionals do have some more ‘creative’ liberty to use it in formal settings.

You can read his observation in his blog

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How to reduce the text in your slides

November 11, 2009 in Ideas Presentability, Language : English, Slides, Speaking Tips | 4 comments

Too often, we come across a speaker who puts way too much text on it slide.

Text is good for reading. Got it? READING. Not listening.

Which means that if you put text on your slides, the audience will read it INSTEAD of listening to you.

A bit of text can be fine. However, too much will distract the audience.

Jan Schultink the author of stickyslides.blogspot.com made this « presentation lessons for entrepreneurs presentation ». I hope it will inspire you too reduce the quantity of text in your presentation.

Downloadable PDF of the presentation lessons for entrepreneurs presentation

View more documents from Jan Schultink.

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