Effective presentations
What do you call a presentation that doesn’t achieve what you want?
A wast of time!
That may be a bit harsh but worth keeping in the back of your mind. Why send hours putting together that proposal if it’s not going to succeed? I’ve rounded up a few links packed full of advice to help make your presentation a success. You may still have to work longer but at least you know you’re also working smarter.
SlideShare Blog » Blog Archive » SlideShare contest: We have winners!
Best Presentation Prizes (chosen by the judges)* First prize winner is the absolutely brilliant presentation by jbrenman: Shift Happens. Its a stylistic rendition of a presentation by Karl Fisch.
* Second prize winner is Meet Henry by chereemoore. This slideshow has already inspired other slideshows.
* Third prize winner is very well done presentation by chrislandry titled Sustainable Food Lab which describes ways to make mainstream food systems more sustainable.
“Meet Henry” is a nice intro (even though its a bit of advertising). the Al Gore presentation seen in the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” gained notoriety. Want to know how it happened?
Make a Presentation Like Al Gore – Wired How-To Wiki
To help us learn how to make our slide show presentations as powerful as Al Gore’s, we’ve asked for advice from Nancy Duarte of Duarte Design, the company behind the slide show featured in An Inconvenient Truth, and author of slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations. This is what she had to say about delivering a successful presentation.
Study the best to be the best they say. Steve Job’s (however you feel about him) is an accomplished presenter. Lifehacker explore why.
Give a Presentation like Steve Jobs | Lifehacker Australia
Sell the benefit. While most presenters promote product features, Jobs sells benefits. When introducing iTunes movie rentals, Jobs said, “We think there is a better way to deliver movie content to our customers …
Make that presentation count.
Here’s one we looked at in class.
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