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Travelling and presentation creation: tips for doing it successfully

By on May 23, 2013 in Design, Planning, Presentations

For some of us, it’s sometimes unavoidable.  For others of us, it’s our most inspired environment for writing.  For others of us still, we’re so restless anyway, we might as well work.  What do I speak of?  Writing presentations while in transit on:  planes, trains, and (for the very advanced), automobiles. As straight forward as it may [...]

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Anatomy of a chart

By on April 17, 2013 in Design, Images, Presentations

When designing a presentation chart,  you should focus on clarity and credibility above all else.  In order to best explain what I mean by clarity and credibility, I’ve put this visual anatomy of a chart together.     Clarity: Hierarchy of titles is clear.  The overall message of the page (the top line that says [...]

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Prezi storyboarding template

By on March 19, 2013 in Presentations, Prezi

Recently, I had an inquiry from a Non-Profit around creating Prezis that would act as standalone training videos. I explained to them that the typical process is as follows: 1. Select a central metaphor (the best Prezis have a central image you zoom in and out of) 2. Write the voice-over script 3. Decide on [...]

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Fonts & PowerPoint

By on February 14, 2013 in Design, Presentations

If you’d like to have an edgier, moe sophisticated looking PowerPoint template, I’d suggest not using one of the following fonts:  Arial, Calibri, Tahoma or Verdana.  Everyone uses them.  The benefit to using them, is that anyone can then edit your pages.  If that’s not the concern, then consider using a different font. When selecting [...]

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Killer pages

By on February 5, 2013 in Chart types, Design, Presentations

This is the name of a summary page using combined elements from data-driven and conceptual chart objects that you can base an entire conversation on. It could be one central concept, a filled-out framework, or a summary of your data (e.g., a dashboard). It’s a great idea to use a killer page, also known as [...]

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Afraid of what someone in your audience will say or think?

By on July 10, 2012 in Audience, Presentations

Then head them off at the pass!  The fancy communications industry term for it is “stakeholder management” which requires an “audience analysis.”  A stakeholder is someone else who has an interest, or stake in whatever it is you are communicating about.  These stakeholders are most likely to have something to say when you are up [...]

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Metaphors series: Leadership

By on June 26, 2012 in Design, Inspiration, Presentations, Uncategorized

In continuation on my series of brainstorms for alternatives to “played out visual metaphors,” I’m attacking Leadership.  This is one where folks frequently show something at the top or somewhite man in a suit. But what is leadership, really?  Good leaders inspire other to follow, they have contagious energy, and a vision.  They’re good at [...]

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Metaphors series: Balanced/Unbalanced

By on June 22, 2012 in Design, Images, Inspiration, Presentations

As noted in my last post, I love metaphors and am a huge fan of using them to presentations.  I am not, however a huge fan of the same metaphors being used over and over again.  In the last post, I brainstormed alternatives to a tree being used for growth.  Today, I’d like to conquer [...]

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Metaphors Series: Growth

By on June 19, 2012 in Design, Images, Inspiration

A great way to jazz up your presentation and make it resonate more with your audience is with metaphors.   In case it’s been a while since you’ve been in literature class, the definition of a metaphor, according to Wikipedia is:  a literary figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some [...]

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“How to design a TEDx presentation” by EP

By on June 15, 2012 in Design, Inspiration

This is a presentation, designed by a firm out in Hawaii.  This is probably designed to be an on-screen, projected presentation versus a SlideShare presentation as there really are a LOT of slides, making you feel like you’ve got a lot of clicking to do.  BUT, it’s got some good tips in here that I [...]

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