Short doesn’t mean unimportant

March 9, 2009

Some people somehow have the ability to make a 90-minute presentation. I think my longest good presentation was 25 minutes. I’ve had some longer presentations, but unless they have an interactive component or a workshop atmosphere, they’re usually quite boring. Even talk show hosts will only have a 10-minute monologue before they will have other elements (such as talking with the band or in the third segment of their show they will conduct an interview).

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Funny PowerPoint Presentations: How NOT to use PowerPoint (YouTube)

March 8, 2009

Presentations sometimes being somewhat of a serious (but really fun!) subject, I’ll try to sprinkle in some things from the “Lighter Side of Presentations”. Here’s a funny clip from YouTube that I found ages ago. If you have a few minutes to spare, make sure to take a look .

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The Presentation Handout… NOT your slides

March 8, 2009

The handout is an amazing thing. It frees your mind, it (can) improve your slides, it makes your audience happy! How so, you ask? Well, writing a handout with the main points of your talk summarized in one page, including references (and maybe links to further reading material) and your contact data relieves you of [...]

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Q&A: What if I only have one day to prepare a presentation?

March 7, 2009

Neha asks: Sometimes I just get time of only one day to draft an entire presentation. I would like to ask for your help on how to make presentations if I only have a day to create it. Hi Neha, thanks for your question. Well, if you only have one day to work on it, I’ll [...]

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Having a genius: Author Elizabeth Gilbert gives a visual speech (without any slides!)

March 3, 2009

Elizabeth Gilbert gave a very cool speech at TED ’09. And guess what, she doesn’t use any slides! It’s really exciting to see her talk , she’s very modest, she’s funny and she tells a captivating story about creativity and genius. She was very visual in the sense that she describes things and you can [...]

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Reducing Fluff: Killing Clip arts.

March 1, 2009

I love simplicity whenever I see it. It just gives me a sense of relief and lightness when I see it. When buying anything it will be one of the criteria that I look for and that is why I love so many of the Apple Gadgets (especially the iPod Shuffle). When designing these electronic [...]

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Welcome to ReThink Presentations!

February 27, 2009

Welcome to the newly created ReThink Presentations Blog. I was excited and thrilled to get so many great responses to my uploaded presentation . In the 7 months after the presentation was uploaded it has received over 35.000 views and I have received almost 100 emails from readers around the world. The presentation I’m talking about is the one I [...]

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