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So what components make for a better rehearsal for your next presentation? Many folks focus relentlessly on rehearsing what I'll call the technical aspects of the presentation: the room, the PowerPoint. But a technical rehearsal is not enough to deliver an outstanding presentation. Practice makes perfect, right? Not really.

And it's not presented by subject matter experts in the workshops. Presenting to the Social Media backchannel. I was able to glean enough nuance from the real-time conversations in the Twitter backchannel during a webcast presentation -- that I didn't need to actually watch the presenter! To double-check my intuitive abilities, only later did I watch the archived “Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends - if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath.

Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience. Gradually tools are being developed to make it easier for you as the presenter to manage the backchannel. That’s because I think it’s much easier for you as a presenter if there’s just one application open on your laptop – rather than having to click between applications during your presentation. I would love to see more tools available which work within the most common slideware – PowerPoint and Keynote.

It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points. While I’m in the venture capital business, this rule is applicable for any presentation to reach agreement: for example, raising capital, making a sale, forming a partnership, etc. Ten is the optimal number of slides in a PowerPoint presentation because a normal How to Change the World A practical blog for impractical people. « A Brief History of Mine | Main | Resolution Assistance » December 30, 2005 The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint I suffer from something called Ménière’s disease—don’t worry, you cannot get it from reading my blog.

Most fireworks presentations feature a super-explosive Grand Finale. And maybe even a little hard-of-hearing! photo credit: empressofdirt What do you do for your own presentation grand finale? Let's say your presentation has achieved the equivalent of garnering ooohs and aaahs. After 45 minutes or so of eliciting audience oooohs and ahhhhs, a fabulous fireworks show ends with an overwhelming sensory display that excites and mobilizes the crowd. The masses rise, stamp their feet, cheer wildly -- and go home feeling invigorated.

Yes, you can design a PowerPoint presentation without using PowerPoint. With speedy internet access, you can design a presentation "in the cloud". What are Presentation Design Cloud Apps? Think Google Docs Presentations . When you access any of these three (currently free) And you don't need Keynote or OpenOffice, either. Or 280slides .

But before I give you my thoughts, let me ask you how you handle these: · Do you finish your presentation with a slide that says "Questions & Answers" and just go from there? · Do you say, "Any questions?" But Q&As provide a lot more than that. A Q&A session breaks through the formality of a presentation. SO MUCH POTENTIAL — for good and bad — lurks in a typical Question & Answer period. quot; · Do you consider in advance what kinds of questions you're likely to get? · How do you wrap things up when the Q&A session is over?

People using the Beyond Bullet Points (BBP) approach enjoy successful presentations because they tell stories while giving the presentation. Instead, they weave together the point of their presentation using the story telling techniques we learned as kids. Beyond Bullet Points: Telling a story with your presentation They don’t load their slides with a lot of words and meaningless data. Stories connect speakers with their audience.

When it comes to experiencing a PowerPoint presentation, there's only so much your brain can process. You can either listen to a presenter speak, or you can try to read what you seen on the screen.  And you become irritated with the presenter.  That's why we’re experiencing something of a fashion backlash against overly complicated, bullet-laden slides. This is Your Brain on PowerPoint.  Our brains have 2 lobes.