Four tips from five-minute presentations

Networking events which group together a number of short presentations are creating a buzz.

There’s Pecha Kucha Night, which started out to allow young designers to showcase their work:

Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

There’s Ignite which has more of a geek flavour: [Read more]

Content is King

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 Presentation Zen blog has done a great job in highlighting some of the great speeches from TED and offering his comments. His comments generally focus on these areas:

1. The visual content of the presentation eg: slides, props
2. The delivery style of the presenter
3. The substance of the content.

My approach will be to analyse the process of the content. What I mean by the process of the content is such things as: [Read more]