Presenting. Presentation tools.
Designing Presentations to Work Across Multiple Platforms. 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.
Thus, today the word “presentation” may refer to the visuals alone as well as to the act of presenting. It all starts with the idea that the authoring tool for your slides need not be the tool for presenting them. The only thing you need to do is prepare your slides to work as a sequence of static images and the look of your presentation will stay intact, no matter what.
Presentation Handouts. 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 during the presentation, not what happens afterwards. Here are the benefits of having handouts: Benefits for the presenter They allow you to cut down on the amount of material you cover in your presentation and so not commit information overload.They allow you to stop worrying about forgetting what you want to say.Audience members will have a concrete reminder making your presentation more memorable.Audience members can easily contact you later. Benefits for audience members They allow audience members to relax about having to note down what you’re saying.If they like taking notes, they’ve got a place to do it.If they’re inspired by your topic, they’ve got more information on it.If they want to refresh themselves later on what you covered they’ve got a place to go.
Tips for Presentation Handouts. 4 Free Tools to Help Get Your PowerPoint from Good to Great. Continuing the recent trend of PowerPoint in the news, I stumbled upon an article in USA Today that provided some tips and advice for designing more engaging presentations. While the advice was good, for me, more dos and don’ts aren’t really helpful. Having moved beyond the basics, I’m looking for cool techniques and new tools to augment my PowerPoint designs and help me take them from good to great. Ideally these tools are easy to use and help me to create better-looking, highly effective content more quickly – and free is always good, too. If you’re like me and you’re always on the hunt for free and easy ways to amp up the volume to 11, I’ve found the following free tools are a great place to start. Tool #1: Oomfo for Charts & Graphs Sometimes you can’t avoid a data-driven presentation and making nice-looking charts & graphs in PowerPoint is more than a bit tedious for those of us who don’t excel at Excel.
Tool #2: Wordle for Text-Heavy Slides See for yourself. Presentation Zen. FlixTime - Video Slideshows made easy! Slides - The easiest way to create and share beautiful presentations. Choice of Chart. A few years ago Dr. Andrew Abela published a good Diagram helping to decide about which chart are a better fit for a given data and problem at hand (please click on image below to see it in full size).
Choosing a good chart by Dr. Abela (In Color) Dr. Abela also published interesting thoughts about visualization taxonomies and recommended this 3 years old book by Dan Roam, who also published this Visual Thinking “Codex”: Visual Thinking Codex by Dan Roam Good people at Juice Analytics converted Dr. Permalink: Like this: Like Loading... Vizualize.me: Visualize your resume in one click.