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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Photos or sketches
Photos are great for impact and evoking emotion. If you have a hard time trying to think of a metaphor simply type the concept you want to illustrate into the search engine of a stock photo website (eg: istockphoto ) and it will serve up lots of ideas.
Don’t use irrelevent photos for the sake of adding visual interest. It’s called the Assertion-Evidence Format and it was developed by Professor Michael Alley (I’ve mentioned it previously but somehow never devoted a whole post to it).
BTW, if you’ve downloaded and
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
In almost every workshop that I do, someone asks where you can get great photos to use in your presentation. always mention Microsoft’s online library of images that is accessible through PowerPoint, stock photography sites such as istockphoto.com and pictures you take yourself. Today I’d like to discuss another source that is available free of charge in most cases. Governments have staff who take photographs as part of their jobs, and many times these photos are I Fortunately, these photos also belong to the government and the various departments and agencies have generously
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
would love to see more tools available which work within the most common slideware – PowerPoint and Keynote. Both Keynote and PowerPoint have add-ins which allow you to automatically send a tweet when you click on a slide. There is an add-in to do this with PowerPoint 2007 called Slide Tweet , but you need Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio Tools for Office. 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
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
This is Your Brain on PowerPoint. When it comes to experiencing a PowerPoint presentation, there's only so much your brain can process. We're seeing more PowerPoint slides with simple images and minimal words. Your brain demands more! photo credit: Spigoo The 2009 backlash. Let Our brains have 2 lobes. Loosely speaking, the left handles data, facts, and analysis.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Using social media tools like Twitter , you can play a game of "Logical Fallacy Bingo" as you watch slick presenters play fast and loose with the rules of logic. Here's how to play: Just for grins, let's cover some examples of logical fallacies that we often hear about PowerPoint -- the tool many love to hate. Therefore, presenters should use PowerPoint slides as teleprompters during live-audience presentations. " photo credit: brew ha ha This argument, of course, is the fallacy of "False Analogy". Use emotion to connect to your audience.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
You’ve read Presentation Zen and Slideology and you’re convinced about the benefits of using visually-engaging PowerPoint slides when you present. Suggest that they also have hard-copy notes (which is a useful back-up for technology failure anyway) and that they gradually transition from using their Powerpoint slides as their notes to using their hard-copy notes. After weaning themselves off their But everyone else in your organization stubbornly sticks to the bullet-point slides. How can you persuade them to change their minds?
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
When I put photos into my presentations the file size grows massively and it becomes difficult to manage. I have real difficulties e-mailing presentations with lots of photos in for example.
How do I insert photos in a PowerPoint presentation and yet keep the file size down? After giving a talk last night in which I used a lot of images and very little text, one of the participants emailed me with the following question:
“Dear Gavin,
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Many folks focus relentlessly on rehearsing what I'll call the technical aspects of the presentation: the room, the PowerPoint. Find out if you'll be seated or standing -- and rehearse in the position you'll be assuming. photo credit: paulhagius 2. You'll be amazed at how much better your performance will be just by understanding how your entire body feels in full "costume and makeup." photo credit: freakapotimus 3. Practice makes perfect, right? Not really.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
"May I have a copy of your PowerPoint presentation?" My PowerPoint slides are my props. But my PowerPoint slides are usually props for my speech. May I have your balls?" photo credit: Ladonite OK, maybe you would! But if you've asks an audience member. "What What for?"
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
So there’s a lot of fine-print type going over the top of photos, which creates production dramas too tedious to relate here, but it has some relevance for creating presentation graphics.
A nice photo makes a more compelling background for your screen show than a cheesy graphic template. Here’s a quick guide to the words-on-pictures thing that you can do within PowerPoint, The design guys and I are working on a food packaging project at the moment. It’s quite a fiddly task.
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