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Presentation style

September 2, 2009

One of the more popular topics on this blog has always been the importance of choosing the right presentation style for a given situation.  The essential difference between the two main presentation styles (ballroom style and conference room style) is the size of your audience and what you are trying to achieve with them.  Ballroom style presentations are suitable for informing or entertaining larg

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Smile and Move

August 25, 2009

Here's another good example of a ballroom style video presentation.

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The Onion on Presentation Design

July 23, 2009

Nothing is sacred to the folks at the Onion.  Not even Death by PowerPoint...

CHARLOTTE, NC—Sources at Cobalt Media confirmed Tuesday that the wow factor—an intangible set of viscerally pleasing features that instill onlookers with a feeling of exhilaration and intense interest—was successfully added to this Thursday's upcoming PowerPoint presentation, entitled "New Ideas For Integrating Social Media Into Product Marketing."

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The Mehrabian Myth

July 21, 2009

About three years ago I blogged about the terrible abuse of Prof. Mehrabian's infamous formula (7% words, 38% tone of voice, 55% body language), and have been hammering it in my workshops ever since.  Last month, Olivia Mitchell started a campaign to bust this Mehrabian myth.  

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Ballroom style presentations as video: Xplane on Leadership

June 27, 2009

I have long suspected that with the growth of online video as a communication medium, that ballroom style presentations will start to evolve into documentary style videos.  It doesn't take much; create a ballroom style presentation, add voice or music, click File/Save as Movie, and upload to YouTube.  

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Presenting to the Pope?

June 18, 2009

Not exactly, but I did get to meet him in person.  Last week I attended the best conference of my life.  It was held in Rome, at the Pontifical Gregorian University, and the theme was "Values and Rules for a New Model of Development.

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Extreme Presentation blog - top 10 posts

May 9, 2009

Earlier this year, the Extreme Presentation blog reached its fourth birthday. To celebrate, I would like to offer a “best of” listing.  I took the ten most popular posts as measured by past six months' traffic, and with some minor modification, here they are; they provide a pretty good cross section of the work I've done on this blog in the past four years. 

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Maytag

May 6, 2009

May 8, 2009 update: I received a call from a supervisor at Maytag, who had read this blog post. They have now agreed to refund the full amount of the parts.   I still wish that this whole thing never happened, but I am satisfied with this outcome.The original post:   I've never done this before, and I probably won't again, because branding, product quality, and customer service don't have much to do with presentation design. 

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Chart Chooser in MATLAB

April 21, 2009

Another addition to the Chart Chooser series, with a difference.  This time the language is MATLAB. Doug at Mathworks wanted to show that it was possible to create all the charts in the Chart Chooser in MATLAB, which he did, as you can see below.  Details on how he did this are on his blog.

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Nancy Duarte on vacation - her review of Advanced Presentations by Design

April 16, 2009

This was exceedingly kind of Nancy.  Nancy Duarte, as most of you know, I think, is a principal of Duarte Design (who are famous for, among other things, designing Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth presentation) and author of Slide:ology.  Nancy took time out of her vacation to post this very supportive review of Advanced Presentations by Design on Youtube.  

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