I was invited to give a deepdive talk on presentation skills at Dotconf 2011 here in Dublin. The deepdive format is great – you give two 30 minute talks to two different audiences and based on the assumption that people know the basics of the topic – hence deepdiving. I drilled in on a number [...]
“Enlighten us, but make it quick” 5 minutes, 20 slides, auto-advancing every 15 seconds – I love Ignite; so I was delighted to be invited to speak at Ignite Dublin a few weeks ago. RSS readers may need to click through to the post I was mortified to be the only speaker who over-ran his [...]
I wonder if the guys and gals of Forethought Inc ever thought their app for helping visualise complex statistical data (imaginatively entitled ‘Presenter’) would be used as widely as it is now, 25 years later? I was asked to deliver a PowerPoint presentation to celebrate the 25th birthday of the inception of PowerPoint. So, there [...]
I was watching Nancy Duarte’s excellent advice on how to deliver an effective remote presentation, and I was particularly struck by her illustration of one of her points – mapping out your presentation: Even if you are presenting nothing more exciting than the management accounts or the debtor’s ledger, your presentation has a rhythm. It [...]
I joined Wayne Turmel for a rant about presentation skills. In the past, the storytellers were revered by the tribe, why have we lost that skill to such an extent in the modern workplace? Wayne dedicated the show to Ogmios, the Gaulish deity – typically depicted as a bald old man leading what looks like [...]
