Hans Rosling is the Zen Master of presenting statistics. Hans proves what we all know, even if our teachers from yesteryear did not: Statistics are not boring. Statistics tell a story. Better yet, share it with others. Gapminder World Gapminder World is a web service that displays time series of development statistics for all countries (Google He's brilliant. Hans gave this talk at TEDIndia a couple of weeks ago. (I

Here’s two of them: Just tell them a story Michael’s a bestselling author and journalist, so we knew his story would be top-notch. But we wanted a good way to invite the audience into the story. It was a compelling story, evoking instant recall for anyone who’s had the experience, so we used that setting as a starting point for the Duarte had the distinct pleasure of working with bestselling author Michael Pollan to turn his ideas about sustainability and food systems into a visual presentation for the PopTech conference last month. Plan to eat your

Tell a story (funny, heartwarming, horrifying -- get some emotion flowing) 2. Give a "shocking statistic" I find the shocking statistic to be the most difficult to pull off effectively, because it's hard to come up with statistics that can really move your audience. People are jaded, and a statistic like, "One in six 10th graders smokes pot" will just make their eyes glaze over. When we talk about strong openings for a presentation, we are usually referring to the following methods to get the audience emotionally or physically involved with your presentation right from the beginning: 1.

Tea's presentation was effective at the World Tea Expo was his use of statistics, stories, analogies and examples. He told his own story of being addicted to coffee. Overall, it was a colorful and engaging presentation: statistics and data balanced by stories, analogies and examples to bring life to the numbers and charts. (If One reason Dr. He started out by telling us that Americans drink "115,000 cups of coffee every 15 seconds of every minute of every day."

Level 2 - The Story Opening Once you’ve got the Organized Opening mastered, step up to the Story Opening. Telling a story is, for most people, the easiest of the more advanced opening techniques. Opening with a story helps you to be conversational and establish rapport with your audience. I get frustrated at presentation advice which says you have to do something clever or dramatic at the beginning of a presentation to grab your audience’s attention. That’s for three reasons:

When put to the test, most statistics about public speaking are a Authentic story telling is easy to learn. Just read story books to When you tell a story, debrief it. your story the same way. Every year, I challenge myself on my birthday by doing consecutive push-ups push-ups to match the birthday I’m celebrating.

statistical fact more graphically explicit Trying to tell too much will only confuse the story. The opening line in my new MOST favorite book is, “The response to a visual presentation will determine its value.” No, this is not a newfangled book on presentations written this year, it’s the book “Practical Charting Techniques” written in 1969 by Mary Eleanor Spear, the statistician of governments and Presidents.

8220;The Power Gap” (a new animated infographic by Airslide) is a great example of making a complex story look effortless… “Demos came to us with an intensely detailed statistical study, which rated every single constituency in Britain according to a number of different social and economic aspects. The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo . “The Crisis of Credit Visualized distills the economic crisis into a short and simple story by giving it form. Simplicity does not necessarily mean skimping out on the meat of your presentation.

Kathy’s unique background as a university trained former TV producer and reporter taught her what it takes to tell great stories in our short attention span world. Make sure that you are telling a compelling story. Kathy notes that there is a danger of using video to share the same boring statistics or data that handicap effective print communications. Kathy Saenz of Neighborhood America Shares What It Takes to Make Video an Effective Content Marketing Tool Even a micro business can use video effectively to communicate with its customers online.

Many audiences will demand that the sources for a statistic appear on the slide itself, but at the very least you have to say what your source is before you show the data. Bill's 2005 talk is not one of my favorites because of the delivery, but rather for the content and the story. Bill's delivery style below is not as engaging as some others, and I'd much prefer he had used a remote and moved away from the computer When I was 17, before Macintosh was even invented, I gave my first multimedia presentation using two 35mm projectors. My topic concerned the environment and the dangers of