Jacek Utko had a very interesting 6-minute TED talk on newspaper design and how it helped a newspaper achieve a 100% growth. When I saw this, I directly saw the link to presentations and how his approach can be used for presentation design (by design I don’t mean how to put pictures into the slides or which type of font to use - but I mean design in a bigger sense as in how to approach the presentation as a whole). I really liked how he thought about design. [click to continue…]

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Charts are often an important part of a presentation. You can visualize complex data with charts. But I’ve seen some horrible visual usage of them; the slides with charts are often cluttered, the data is displayed too small and sometimes irrelevant or superfluous data is included.

What’s the solution? [click to continue…]

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I just found this funny Dilbert comic on presentations and pie charts, I just HAD to share it with you! [click to continue…]

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One of the first books on presentations I came across was Seth Godin’s Really Bad PowerPoint (and how to avoid it). Even though it is not the most comprehensive (it’s 10 pages long, and 3 of them are of editorial nature), it did show me that there is another “presentation world” out there. It showed me the direction of what good presentations (and powerpoint) are all about. So I started looking on the web, and I found Garr Reynolds’ web page and from then on I was an regular reader of presentation design/delivery webpages. [click to continue…]

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Read Part 1 of the article here.

So, after the 40-minute break (I guess they’re a bit lenient on time :- ) ) we continued. 6 more presentations followed. Many of the presentations had to do with animals tonight. A few of them were also business-/management-oriented. A guy from a big fashion company told us about how suits were produced, while a couple of other people talked about their art/design projects. [click to continue…]

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If you don’t know what it is, you can read about Pecha Kucha Nights here.

So excited!!

So tonight I went to my first Pecha Kucha Night, this one was held in Cologne, Germany. I arrived there half an hour before they would let people in and I thought I’d be on the safe side and I’d be the first person to arrive. To my surprise there were already about 15 people there! 15 minutes later the line behind me was already 20 meters long (about 66 feet for the non-metric people reading this). [click to continue…]

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This is a presentation I created soon after I saw the original YouTube video, which really impressed me. I won’t tell you too much about it now (because there’s a twist - so  make sure to watch it until the end!). [click to continue…]

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Are you running out of ideas for your next presentation? Then maybe doing some physical exercise just might do the trick! I’ve had ideas for presentations come to me during a 5 mile run or so. I like running a lot and will do the occasional half-marathon, but during the relaxed training runs in the park (with or without my iPod Shuffle) my brain starts to unleash a lot of ideas. [click to continue…]

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This is my 4th upload to slideshare and this time it deals with the subject of numbers. To be more exact, it compares “big numbers” from social media with numbers from global issues (hmm… hard to explain, why not take a quick look at the presentation?).

I also wanted to show with this presentation, that with [click to continue…]

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Presenter’s block

Sometimes I will have trouble starting a presentation. It’s a mixture of challenges, but one factor is procrastination. I just have difficulty stopping everything I’m doing, making space on my desk and then brainstorming on an idea for 10-20 minutes. It’s not impossible, and of course when doing a lengthy and big presentation (e.g. a 3 hour workshop) I will gladly do it. But in addition to that there are other challenges, e.g. sometimes no ideas will come into mind and I have no idea how to even begin a presentation. Presenter’s block, if you will. Did you ever experience anything like this? [click to continue…]

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One saturday morning I had a funny idea for a presentation, so I took the time until noon to create these slides. The idea came to me, when I thought that Einstein is quoted a lot, and many of his quotes revolve around similar themes, e.g. life, science, ethics. What if I can connect all the quotes? So I did that. In the presentation you will see a series of quotes - and starting at the second quote, every quote contains a phrase from the previous quote. [click to continue…]

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Caution: Lots of buzz words in this post!

I just discovered this really cool geeky tool to create stunning presentations, it’s called Prezi. In essence, it’s a presentation tool with which you can move around on one big slide. So instead of changing slides, you just move from one spot to the next, zooming in, zooming out, turning (I imagine you can easily do some cool motion typography with this thing). I suppose you can do most of the things with Flash as well. But then again, you can also update each other via Facebook, but people still use Twitter. So who knows. [click to continue…]

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Often enough I will see a presentation where on the 3rd or 4th slide I will see a table of contents with 6 or 7 bullet points and I think to myself: “Sigh, I hope I can stay awake”. People will try to cram as much information as possible into a presentation, the problem is, the listener will probably remember only a little bit of it. If the presenter has 6-7 equal points that he or she wants to talk about, I will most likely remember 1 or 2 points only. And every other listener will probably remember different points. [click to continue…]

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There’s a new website based on the TED conference, the web site is called TEDify. I’m not sure what the long-term aim is, but the first 2 articles include video mashups of several speakers (mashup just means different parts of talks are cut together) that is shown via motion typography (”moving text”).

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