(Haven’t read part 1 yet? Click on Prezi: What’s the blogosphere’s viewpoint (Part 1).)

The WebWorkerDaily wrote in their post Prezi: Presentations With a Twist has a rather neutral stance, stating: “It’s a fast way to create a presentation, and it offers new opportunities if you need to customize one presentation for multiple audiences. Rather than adding or deleting slides, it’s a matter of choosing which sections of your presentation you want to zoom in on; by changing the path your presentation follows around that big page Prezi offers you, you can simply avoid any material you want to exclude and focus in on those parts you want to include.” [click to continue…]

I’ve been asked quite a lot to give an example of a presentation handout. That’s why I’m presenting one of the first handouts that I have created here. To Download the presentation handout sample (in PDF), click on the image below or download presentation handout. To see the presentation for this handout, go to ReThinking Presentation Design. You can also see the content of the handout below the image.

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Being just over a year out in the open, Prezi has now gained some traction and some people are starting to use it. You might remember my Prezi review post from last year when it just came out. In essence, what I said is that even though it is a very cool software, its adoption might be limited but I imagine it will do well in some niches. The question is: What do other bloggers and presenters think about Prezi? [click to continue…]

When I joined the Slideshare.net Presentation contest about 2 years ago, I saw some impressive presentations. One of the is called Foot Notes, and I was impressed the minute I saw it. It’s a presentation you can’t just copy, you have to actually work at this presentation. It doesn’t use a lot of words, but I really, really liked it and that’s why I want to show it here. It’s not a business presentation at all, but it is a small eye-opener - how a presentation can look like. It’s just the right length and it’s well made. [click to continue…]

I’ve been asked several times to present infront of a different “type” of people to that I’m usually used to. For example, recently I was asked to present infront of a group of full-time scientists. Of course this is a challenge and I could just turn it down. But I think these are the presentations where I can learn the most from. I will have to adjust the presentation a bit, and I will most likely make more mistakes than I’m used to, but at the same time I think I will learn more than from other ‘ordinary’ presentations.

So these are the times where you can learn a lot - so it’s doubly important that [click to continue…]

However you want to think about it, you will always realize that content is very crucial. I used to be obsessed with design; when creating a website, I would start with some tiny content, and once that is up, I would spend the rest of the time creating great design and I would forget about the content. But that’s not what people want. People want content! [click to continue…]

Yeah, finally another Presentation contest, I’ve been waiting for one to pop up again (I hope Slideshare also has one again this summer!). Though you can somewhat see Pecha Kucha Nights as an informal (and fun!) contest. On their website it reads: “The PowerPoint Live Design Contest is open to anyone and everyone: your mission is to create the slide design that would be used for the conference template. If chosen, your design would be used in all of our seminar tracks by just about all of our presenting team.” [click to continue…]

I didn’t post for almost a week due to a (really needed and relaxing) spontanous short vacation. It did give me a chance to read a couple of books - among them: slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte.

It’s a well-designed book (who would’ve guessed it?) and when first flipping through I really liked the fact that it includes a lot of diagrams and images and case studies - it’s a really hands-on book. [click to continue…]

I was at a sustainability award ceremony once, and going towards the end of the whole thing, the 5 or so winners along with the host of the award were on stage. Then the host was told there were still 5 minutes left before the start of the next part of the program. Until now everything went fine, I think the host did a decent job, everyone was talkative. But what came after that was just weird. [click to continue…]

Images and photos - when used correctly - can be very effective in supporting your presentation. Personally, I would much prefer it if people used many more pictures in their presentations. It’s cliche but true: A picture is worth a thousand words. So imagine you are trying to explain to people about why they should visit Indonesia. [click to continue…]

In a previous post I wrote on why handouts are important and how they can relieve you of writing down everything on your slides. In this post, I want to get into a bit more detail on what elements a handout should contain. Of course every person will have their own preferences and do let me know if you have your own ideas on how to create presentation handouts. [click to continue…]

Twitter has grown quite considerably since it was founded and especially in the last few months. With it, many things we do in the area of technology have also changed.

#preso or #ppt?

It’s been to some (though only little) debate, what hashtag should be used to follow presentation-related tweets (hashtags are sort of like identifiers with which you can follow a certain topic - in this case: presentations). [click to continue…]

Every now and then you will have a really important presentation and you might invest a lot of time into it, more than usual. You want to make sure everything goes as smoothly as possible. So, how do you know when you’ve practiced enough? When do you know you’re good enough? In these sorts of cases, I like to think of this quote from the movie “Shine”, where a prodigy piano player is practicing to play a difficult piece from Rachmaninoff (called the “Rach 3″ in the movie to make it sound cool). [click to continue…]

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