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Garr Reynolds

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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How to do an agenda slide like Garr Reynolds

December 24, 2008

Garr Reynolds’ slides from his recent webcast are now online. Garr has an innovative agenda slide. He’s transformed what is normally a boring bullet-point slide into something beautiful and effective. Check out slides 7 to 12 for the agenda slide sequence:
Slides (in PDF) from Safari Webcast
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Review of the 3 books of the Presentation Revolution

September 18, 2008

There are three books which have ushered in and defined the PowerPoint Revolution. If you can only buy one, which one should you buy? Here’s my analysis of the three books and my recommendation.
Cliff Atkinson was the pioneer with Beyond Bullet Points. The Beyond Bullets approach is an entire system for creating a presentation with [...]

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The top four things I learnt from Garr Reynolds’ workshop

July 1, 2008

Garr Reynolds ran a day-long workshop yesterday in Wellington, New Zealand. I’ve devoured his blog, poured over his book and I was very excited about attending this workshop. Here are the top four things I came away with.
1. Beauty matters
Garr’s workshop was an aesthetic experience. His slides nourished my visual sense. It was like going to a contemporary art or photo exhibition. [...]

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Content is King

May 2, 2008

TED is an annual conference held in Monterey, California featuring presentations from the world’s leading thinkers and doers. Each speaker has 18 minutes to make their point. TED puts videos of the speakers on their website – this is an amazing treasure trove of material for observing and learning from great presenters. Garr Reynolds from the [...]