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In my last post on presentation handouts I suggested that it’s best to distribute your handout before your presentation. The comments to that post identified three situations when it makes sense to distribute your handout after the presentation. As not everyone wades through comments I’ve decided to highlight them in this post: 1. Surprise Mike Slater
Three good reasons to distribute your handout after the presentation
Your presentation handout is the lasting concrete manifestation of your presentation. It’s an important part of the total experience for the audience: But most of us focus on preparing what happens the presentation, not what happens . Here are the benefits of having handouts: Benefits for the presenter
Presentation Handouts
Could your body language be more expressive? Do you inhibit your natural body language when you’re public speaking because of your self-consciousness? Or maybe you’ve been told (by a well-meaning but misguided person) that you wave your arms around too much? As a result you’ve shut down your natural gestures and become stiff and boring. The secret to curing boring body language in public speaking is to replicate the state you’re in when you’re in an animated one-on-one conversation .
Public speaking and body language
By Jon, on April 8th, 2011 Presentations have gained a lot of prominence recently. As a matter of fact, they have taken on a life of their own. They’ve gone far beyond the scope of what presentations originally meant: Conveying an idea or demonstrating a product to a live audience. Visuals that used to serve as an explanatory aid to a speaker (not to mention the speakers who used/abused them as a teleprompter) have long since evolved into standalone slide shows. This was made possible through the power of desktop computing putting design tools like Powerpoint in the hands of you, me and Joe from Accounting.
Designing Presentations to Work Across Multiple Platforms
Using Eye Contact to Connect With Your Presentation Audience
{*style:<i><b> Editor’s Note: </b> You’ve prepared for weeks (if not months) researching, gathering, and designing your content, but it all comes down to the minutes you spend delivering it to your audience. When that audience is live, sitting just feet from you, it’s imperative to make a real connection with them. One of the most important delivery tools to make that connection is eye-contact.
By Jon, on April 26th, 2011 Every Tuesday I publish a short post with quick, consumable presentation tips. Here is Tip #6. While I am clearly a fanboy of Apple , as I write this on my MacBook Pro, my slideware of choice is actually Microsoft PowerPoint.
Alternatives to PowerPoint
Posted by Danny Maas on Tuesday, September 13th 2011 What is Prezi? “ Prezi is a web-based presentation application and storytelling tool that uses a single canvas instead of traditional slides.
Getting Started with Prezi : Danny Maas, Emerging Technologies AISI Consultant