PPT - Powerful Presentation Techniques

PPT 40,000 page views

Tomorrow PPT - Powerful Presentation Techniques will pass the 40,000 page view level since its launch last year.  Our traffic numbers continue to increase with over 75 unique visitors per day.  We've also reached the milestone of 240 posts.  While not at the one post a day, I'm happy to be able to contribute to the dialogue surrounding how to make your presentations more effective.

Paul J Gibler
the Web Chef
ConnectingDots

More Tips to "Click" When Presenting

Irish blogger Rowan Manahan or Fortify Services has put together a list of problems that result in ineffective presentations.  These include:

• Too much information
• Reading your slides
• Too long
• No passion
• Too much being "the sage on the stage"

He also has an accompanying Slideshare video you might find worthwhile.  I found it a refreshing example of one way to tell your story using PowerPoint.

Powerful Visual Imagery, Message and Delivery

Quotes worth Sharing

"A joke's a very serious thing."

Charles Churchill

UPDATED - PowerPoint & Presentation Resource Listing (REV 5)

I've updated the PPT-PowerPoint & Presentation Resource Guide (Download PPT-PowerfulPresentationTechniquesResourceGuideRev5.pdf) with some additional articles, books, web sites that I've identified or that have been sent to me. 

If you have additions or changes to the Guide, drop me a line and I'll be sure to include them in REV 6.

Paul J Gibler
the Web Chef

P.S. I'd be happy to talk to you and your organization about the customized PPT - Powerful Presentation Techniques training sessions that I have available.  They blend Tips and Techniques related to Presentation Strategy, Preparation, Technical Development Using PowerPoint and Delivery tips to improved the effectiveness of your presentations.

Read and Learn

Continuing with a listing and links to articles and resources you might find useful, take a look at the following:

• "18 Tips for Killer Presentations", LifeHack, 8/27/07
• "Tufte's Tips for Succesful Presentations"

Read and Learn

Periodically I'll be providing links without a whole lot of analysis or my own commentary to articles and resources that I come across that might be valuable for presenters seeking to enhance their presentation skills and use of supporting tools to do the same.  I've decided to call this new column "Read and Learn". 

Here are a couple of articles for you:

• "The Top 12 Presentation Mistakes", Manage Smarter, June 19, 2007.  I liked this one and picked up a couple of tips that I hadn't really thought about.  Readers always seem to like lists...
• "In Favor of Face Time", Forbes (registration required), October 1, 2007.  A review of why meetings are important, along with some tips on making them more effective.

Quotes worth Sharing

"Twelve experts gathered in one room equal one big idiot"

Carl Jung

New Free Microsoft Office Competitor - IBM Lotus Symphony

IBM is joining the fray alongside Sun and Google to gain mind and market share among Microsoft Office users with the introduction of a suite of free products being released under the Lotus Symphony name according to The Wall Street Journal.  The product suite will offer competitive offerings to Excel, PowerPoint and Word according to the article.  The IBM web site brands these the IBM Productivity tools, that will be marketed under the sub-brands Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, Lotus Symphony Documents and Lotus Symphony Presentations. 

The IBM website has a series of screen shots with an audio accompaniment under the Get Started with Lotus Presentations.  Interestingly the narrator describes the product as Lotus Presentations without any sub-brand of Symphony. 

Lotus Symphony is being created in the Open Document Format, an increasingly popular open standard.  Meanwhile the Office.org site offers a free presentation software called Impress.

Quotes worth Sharing

"When a thing has been said and well, have no scruples.  Take it and copy it."

Anatole France