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]]> By: Come usare al meglio le immagini: alcune risorse « Presentazioni Efficaci http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/design/presentation-images-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-6057 Come usare al meglio le immagini: alcune risorse « Presentazioni Efficaci Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:15:21 +0000 http://speakingaboutpresenting.com/?p=4146#comment-6057 [...] non è finita: Olivia Mitchell parla di alcuni errori nell’uso delle immagini che vale la pena tenere a mente (a dire il vero sono errori molto sofisticati), senza dimenticare il ruolo fondamentale del testo [...] [...] non è finita: Olivia Mitchell parla di alcuni errori nell’uso delle immagini che vale la pena tenere a mente (a dire il vero sono errori molto sofisticati), senza dimenticare il ruolo fondamentale del testo [...]

]]> By: Presentation images - three traps http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/design/presentation-images-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-4935 Presentation images - three traps Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:55:09 +0000 http://speakingaboutpresenting.com/?p=4146#comment-4935 [...] sparked many wise comments. German presentation trainer, Anke Troeder wrote about combining words and images in your presentation, and I invited her to elaborate on that comment. Here’s the article she [...] [...] sparked many wise comments. German presentation trainer, Anke Troeder wrote about combining words and images in your presentation, and I invited her to elaborate on that comment. Here’s the article she [...]

]]> By: Olivia Mitchell http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/design/presentation-images-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-4877 Olivia Mitchell Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:08:36 +0000 http://speakingaboutpresenting.com/?p=4146#comment-4877 Hi Warwick I love the "Puzzled by Pictures" phrase. So true! Olivia Hi Warwick

I love the “Puzzled by Pictures” phrase. So true!

Olivia

]]> By: Warwick John Fahy http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/design/presentation-images-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-4876 Warwick John Fahy Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:29:39 +0000 http://speakingaboutpresenting.com/?p=4146#comment-4876 Thought provoking post Olivia. Perhaps what we are seeing is the swing away from Death by PowerPoint to Puzzled by Pictures. Recent presentation books extoll the virtues of using images - but the authors are graphic designers who spent their time considering the relevance of image to message to idea. I think the basics of getting back to what is the core of your message need to be examined. Practice using metaphors and understanding what is a metaphor can be an important new step in creating visually rich presentations. I love watching movies and advertisements to observe what are the symbols or metaphors being used to convey a message. Warwick John Fahy Author, The One Minute Presenter Short article and links on metaphors at: http://www.oneminutepresenter.com/2010/04/executive-tip-look-out-for-metaphors/ Thought provoking post Olivia. Perhaps what we are seeing is the swing away from Death by PowerPoint to Puzzled by Pictures. Recent presentation books extoll the virtues of using images – but the authors are graphic designers who spent their time considering the relevance of image to message to idea.

I think the basics of getting back to what is the core of your message need to be examined. Practice using metaphors and understanding what is a metaphor can be an important new step in creating visually rich presentations. I love watching movies and advertisements to observe what are the symbols or metaphors being used to convey a message.

Warwick John Fahy
Author, The One Minute Presenter

Short article and links on metaphors at: http://www.oneminutepresenter.com/2010/04/executive-tip-look-out-for-metaphors/

]]> By: Olivia Mitchell http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/design/presentation-images-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-4781 Olivia Mitchell Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:27:23 +0000 http://speakingaboutpresenting.com/?p=4146#comment-4781 Hi Michael Welcome to the comments section :-). Vampire visuals is a great term - thanks for introducing me to it. Olivia Hi Michael
Welcome to the comments section :-) .

Vampire visuals is a great term – thanks for introducing me to it.

Olivia

]]> By: michael http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/design/presentation-images-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-4778 michael Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:29:21 +0000 http://speakingaboutpresenting.com/?p=4146#comment-4778 hi olivia, I agree with your comments. In the advertising world, and I suspect elsewhere, visuals that stole attention from the speaker where termed 'vampire'. As I suggest in a recent post, Beware Vampires, this is what the leader's wives are doing in the UK election campaign! http://www.pitchcoach.co.uk/blog/?p=2313 hi olivia,
I agree with your comments. In the advertising world, and I suspect elsewhere, visuals that stole attention from the speaker where termed ‘vampire’. As I suggest in a recent post, Beware Vampires, this is what the leader’s wives are doing in the UK election campaign!

http://www.pitchcoach.co.uk/blog/?p=2313

]]> By: Olivia Mitchell http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/design/presentation-images-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-4770 Olivia Mitchell Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:12:13 +0000 http://speakingaboutpresenting.com/?p=4146#comment-4770 Hi Anke Delighted that you'd like to do a guest post and I totally understand about your time constraints. Don't let it become a burden. It can be whenever suits you. That's an interesting point about images not "translating" well. It would be easy to assume that the images can stay the same, and all you need to do is change any words. But I guess it's a bit like jokes, which can be very culture-specific. Olivia Hi Anke

Delighted that you’d like to do a guest post and I totally understand about your time constraints. Don’t let it become a burden. It can be whenever suits you.

That’s an interesting point about images not “translating” well. It would be easy to assume that the images can stay the same, and all you need to do is change any words. But I guess it’s a bit like jokes, which can be very culture-specific.

Olivia

]]> By: Anke Tröder http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/design/presentation-images-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-4769 Anke Tröder Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:04:22 +0000 http://speakingaboutpresenting.com/?p=4146#comment-4769 Hi Olivia, thank you for inviting me to do a guest post, I hope you see me blushing from the other side of the planet... I’d love to share some ideas and samples, I'll get in touch with you about when would be good time, as I am somewhat tied to the desk right now. With full time teaching you never seem to make it to actually writing anything anymore, it seems. One interesting point about image slides is how "international" they really are. I am just turning one of my German presentations into an English one, and there are quite a few images that simply have to go because the connotations and metaphors won't translate. All in all, I think Garr Reynold’s Zen Design comes just in time to give people really helpful ideas and tools. Anke Hi Olivia,

thank you for inviting me to do a guest post, I hope you see me blushing from the other side of the planet…

I’d love to share some ideas and samples, I’ll get in touch with you about when would be good time, as I am somewhat tied to the desk right now. With full time teaching you never seem to make it to actually writing anything anymore, it seems.

One interesting point about image slides is how “international” they really are.

I am just turning one of my German presentations into an English one, and there are quite a few images that simply have to go because the connotations and metaphors won’t translate.

All in all, I think Garr Reynold’s Zen Design comes just in time to give people really helpful ideas and tools.

Anke

]]> By: Olivia Mitchell http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/design/presentation-images-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-4767 Olivia Mitchell Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:24:39 +0000 http://speakingaboutpresenting.com/?p=4146#comment-4767 Hi Lynn I think you've expressed the balance we have to seek in a nutshell. Presentations which are a series of arresting or pretty images are an inevitable overshoot as people experiment with images for their presentations. I'm aware of prezi, and I see it as being really useful for certain types of presentations where it makes logical and contextual sense to zoom in on specific parts of a canvas. But for other presentations it could be gimmicky and just as vulnrable to the various types of abuses that we see with other presentation software. Olivia Hi Lynn

I think you’ve expressed the balance we have to seek in a nutshell.

Presentations which are a series of arresting or pretty images are an inevitable overshoot as people experiment with images for their presentations.

I’m aware of prezi, and I see it as being really useful for certain types of presentations where it makes logical and contextual sense to zoom in on specific parts of a canvas. But for other presentations it could be gimmicky and just as vulnrable to the various types of abuses that we see with other presentation software.

Olivia

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