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When you're excited about something, you want to share that excitement with other people. But sometimes that comes across as "this is so great, you've got to try it!" which isn't very compelling. Just because you're excited about it, doesn't mean that they will be.
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Chuck Dietrich is the CEO of SlideRocket , provider of the leading online presentation platform. Every day, thousands of people are forced to sit through dull, flat PowerPoint presentations. Whether you’re presenting slides during a sales call, speaking at a conference, presenting your company to investors, or sending a presentation via e-mail to a potential client, boring your audience is hardly the goal. You want your presentation to engage people in a conversation that leads to a closed deal, a new partnership, or a round of funding. Thankfully, there are several web-based applications available today that allow you to incorporate rich media into your presentations like social features, real-time feeds, and interactive elements. Also called “social media presentations,” these methods allow you to connect with your audience before, during, and after you deliver your message.Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging.
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“When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,” General McChrystal dryly remarked, one of his advisers recalled, as the room erupted in laughter. The slide has since bounced around the Internet as an example of a military tool that has spun out of control. Like an insurgency, PowerPoint has crept into the daily lives of military commanders and reached the level of near obsession. The amount of time expended on PowerPoint, the presentation program of computer-generated charts, graphs and bullet points, has made it a running joke in the Pentagon and in Iraq and Afghanistan. “PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen.
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Almost three years ago I praised the ideas expressed in the bestselling book Made to Stick. I even featured the ideas briefly in the first book, Presentation Zen . Earlier this month Fast Company Magazine featured a 3-minute video by Made to Stick co-author Dan Heath on th eir website called Presentations that Stick. Watch the video below o r checkout the transcripts and resources on the Fast Company site. As you may recall from the book Made to Stick, if you want to communicate your ideas in a way that makes an impact, then craft messages that embrace storytelling, are simple, concrete, credible, emotional, and have an element of unexpectedness. In the video below, Dan reminds presenters to (1) be simple (without being simplistic), (2) show something, and (3) tease before you tell.
Presentation Zen: Making presentations that stick
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Elevator Pitches is a community video project by TechCrunch that allows entrepreneurs to pitch their startups to the general public. Our visitors then have a chance to comment and vote on the pitches they like the most or least. If you are interested in submitting a pitch, please create a video no longer than 60 seconds in length. A technology startup's CEO or founder should use that time to explain the company's products and how they are intended to make money. Imagine you're in an elevator and have only one chance to convince a VC or executive that you deserve a follow-up meeting.
The Extreme Presentation method is a step-by-step approach for designing presentations of complex or controversial information in ways that drive people to action. It is based on extensive empirical research and has been pilot tested among leading corporations, including Microsoft, Exxon-Mobil, Kimberly-Clark, eBay, and Motorola. The purpose of this site is to provide you with tools and support in applying the Extreme Presentation method. You can go to our new tools page , start designing a presentation right now, or read on. New! The Presentation: A Story About Successful Communication With Very Few Slides . ( Sign up for our Extreme Presentation Breaking News email list to receive a free ebook version of The Presentation ).
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