[Poll] Presentation handouts

[dancefloorlandmine]

A musing following on from the last two days presentation-fest ... if you're attending a presentation carried out via PowerPoint or similar, do you like to receive a copy of the slides, and if so, how? Also, if you do presentations, how do you usually do it?

[Poll #1145827]

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[jfs.livejournal.com]

*grin*

That's what you get after I've been teaching a class on PowerPoint design and presentation theory all morning ....

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Ah - fine timing! [grin]

I wish at least one of the presenters on Tuesday had been to your class - a presentation with a point is not supposed to be a random collection of badly chosen embedded videos from YouTube, IMHO.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

I get really passionate about presenting, because when it's done well, it's awe-inspiring. That's also why bad presenting annoys me to the point of frustration, because while not all of us can be great presenters, there are simple tricks that can be learnt that will massively improve anyones skills.

I've been lucky enough to hear Tony Benn speak twice; once on the importance of public libraries, once on the role of the trade unions. I also heard Billy Bragg when he was promoting 'The Progressive Patriot'.

Both of them got up (or in Benn's case, sat with a mug of tea and a pipe) and spoke without notes or slides for an hour. Both were engaging, witty and passionate about their subjects. In all cases, the buzz in the room as they finished was beautiful to hear.

I'll probably never be as good a presenter or performer as either of them. But they've given me a target to aim for.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

High targets, sir, but good ideals, sir.

Happy Computers, upstairs from us, do a course on "How to give a good presentation, despite using PowerPoint" - it's the only one the CEO still runs himself.

The important bits are knowing your subject, being passionate about it, and being able to put that across coherently and engrossingly, AFAIC.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Yup - that works.

If you want to read some really inspiring stuff about presentation techniques, Garr Reynolds blog, Presentation Zen is well worth a look. It's syndicated on here as Zen_Rss.