The theme is "What would you like to see in PowerPoint slide design in 2009?" Let me then revise Olivia's charter (as did others) to focus on what I'd like to see in PowerPoint, or even just what I'd like to see in presentations in 2009. And, You could bombard them (as did Tom Peters in this example) or you could leave PowerPoint completely out of the picture (as Edward Tufte did in the story at the end of this , my favorite YouBlog post).         So that's what I'd like to see from PowerPoint THERE'S AN INTERESTING TOPIC being bandied about by some of us presentation blogger types that you might find valuable.

But what does that mean PowerPoint slides should look like in 2009? I'm no advocate of slides, which tend to serve as projected cue cards even the audience can follow. say if you must use PowerPoint, in 2009, use it to further the discussion with your audience. In that scenario, speakers in 2009 could use PowerPoint to: Ask questions Olivia Mitchell of the Speaking About Presenting blog sent me this provocative post by Laura Bergells on the Maniactive blog: It notes the backlash against bullet-filled PowerPoint slides, which led to simple art-filled slides. Neither

But it seemed like it. In the presentation I saw, random buzzwords that the speaker used in his narrative kept fading in-an-out of the PowerPoint slides projected behind him. architecture. revolutionary. relationships.

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20 tips for better conference speaking ~ 16 February 2009 ~ View from on stage as I’m preparing to speak at An Event Apart New Orleans 2008. Genuinely recommended by Authentic Boredom. 1 Jason Zimdars ~ 16 February 2009 Great post. On a pure gut level, I thought Jeffrey Kalmikoff’s recent post on the topic was pretty interesting, too. [link] I’ll be straight up with you: I don’t profess to be an expert speaker. I’ve had my share of presentations that have been total flops, along with some

There was a time, a million years ago, when projected material at events could only be made by seasoned production professionals, who knew a lot about creating a spectacle. And way up there on the global scale of video projection genius is Netherlands video production company Nuformer We’ve posted about building projection before , but this takes it to an entirely new level. Then the invention of PowerPoint infused the DIY ethic into 95% of presentations. Anyone could knock some visuals together, so we ended up with presentations that were democratic, affordable,

At the Travolution Summit 2009 , 200 of the 1,150 tweets using the #travsummit hashtag were after the event. So have the twitter display ready to go (use the remote of the datashow projecter to hide the screen) and turn it on just when you want it. In one of the panels I attended they had the breakout screen projecting a twitter search feed ([link] To make it work the moderator made up a conference room tag #PR08 and the people sitting in the audience had a running Twitter is now a reality at many conferences. Now the question is: should you display a live twitter stream

Photos ( Zenfolio | Flickr ) Archives About Contact Dear Speakers By James Duncan Davidson on March 8, 2009 12:22 AM | 71 Comments Tagged: advice, speaking Last week, while shooting eComm 2009 in Burlingame, I started posting a set of thoughts on Twitter, all starting out Dear Speaker . Here’s a recap. Malcolm Matson, OPLAN Foundation, on stage at eComm2009 / ©2009 James Duncan Davidson Please deliver your speech to the crowd, not the screen. Getting up on stage and speaking is a difficult and demanding thing to do.

Olivia Mitchell has gathered blog posts and e-mails from 40 contributors on our wishes and fantasies for PowerPoint design in 2009 . detail, design and presentation issues agreed upon by most contributors, and predictions for 2009. But that's not all: she has gone on to analyze and synthesize the posts around some central themes: whether design matters, simplicity vs. Olivia has pulled together a wealth of information to be delved into, and I can't wait to start reading everyone's opinions.

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