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: [...]
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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 [...]
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