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Al Gore

15 ways to improve your presentations in 2009

December 31, 2008

This is a big meaty post with 15 ways to improve your presentations. These ideas are designed to challenge you to stretch yourself. With each idea I’ve pointed you to further resources from fellow presentation bloggers or from my own archives.
Choose one or two to work on at a time. Bookmark this post, so that [...]

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Six ways to take charge of what your audience remembers

June 27, 2008

We ask people on our courses what they remember from the last presentation they went to. Typically they either remember nothing, or a random point or story that the presenter told.
So when you’re presenting, take charge of what your audience remembers. Here are six ways to do that:
1. Focus your presentation around one Key Message
Decide on what [...]

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Al Gore uses evidence to make his point

May 7, 2008

Al Gore’s TED talk is chock-full of evidence to make his point. I’m using the word evidence here loosely to include all the techniques he uses. There’s stories, examples, analogies, quotes, metaphors, and statistics.
I did an analysis of how much of the body of his talk was composed of evidence. Here are the results:

So that’s [...]

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Answer your audience’s questions

May 5, 2008

Effective presentations have a structure and flow. An effective way of building the structure of your presentation is to imagine yourself answering the audience’s questions. This is what Al Gore did in his latest TED talk.
First you need to craft your Key Message. Then consider what the audience’s questions might be once you’ve stated your Key [...]

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A Simple and Concrete Key Message

May 3, 2008

An effective way to plan a presentation is to start by crafting the Key Message. The Key Message is the one thing you most want your audience to remember.

You could also think of it as the five second version of your presentation.

Al Gore’s latest talk at TED provides some great learning for crafting a Key Message. [...]