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Dan Roam

Here’s a quick way to make over a bullet-point slide

August 13, 2009

It’s called the Assertion-Evidence Format and it was developed by Professor Michael Alley (I’ve mentioned it previously but somehow never devoted a whole post to it). BTW, if you’ve downloaded and read my Presentation Planning Guide, you’ll see that this slide format dovetails nicely with the planning system I describe in the Guide. First let’s [...]

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The application of visual thinking to presentations

May 16, 2008

I’ve just finished reading Dan Roam’s book. I highly recommend it if you’re wanting to delve more deeply into visual thinking. I’ve also been doing other reading and web-surfing on visual thinking. Here’s my thoughts so far on the application of visual thinking to presentations. First, if we can express something visually as well as verbally – [...]

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Hand-drawn sketches in PowerPoint

May 2, 2008

I’m currently thinking about the use of digitally-captured hand-drawn images in PowerPoint. Is this approriate in a business presentation? The catalysts for this thinking are Dan Roam‘s book (almost finished reading it) and Garr Reynolds‘ series of posts on simple, hand-drawn images (here, here and here). I’m not quite sure where Dan Roam stands on this. Here [...]

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The power of the flipchart

April 28, 2008

Dan Roam has a great line in his book The Back of the Napkin – “the hand is mightier than the mouse”. Hand-drawing in front of an audience has power and energy. I think most presenters have forgotten this. People hardly use the term Visual Aids anymore – because the only visual aid most presenters use [...]

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Use words and visuals

April 26, 2008

I’m reading Dan Roam‘s great new book Back of the Napkin. It’s led me to explore all the resources on the web for visual thinking. What I’m seeing is that there’s a whole movement out there for visual thinking, infographics etc. But yet most presenters, presentation trainers and consultants still think in terms of the verbal [...]