Zen and the Art of the Slideshow
The best blog on presentations on my regular reading list is Garr Reynolds’ Presentation Zen. He combines design, technology, and skills in delivery in a series of short articles that are always practical and full of insight.
He is currently finishing his book, aptly entitled Presentation Zen, so his posts are nowadays rather infrequent and filled with the angst of the closing weeks of authorship. I will take the liberty of reflecting on his lessons in this blog but I will limit myself here to just one of them: his discussion of the place of the slideshow inside a presentation. He uses this personal slideshow to illustrate his point:
It is a simple, but very attractive idea, to use a slideshow, mid-presentation, to break the flow and to summarise a point in pictures. I will seek an opportunity to include a slideshow at the first major presentation I make. I can think of at least three reasons why I could use it:
- as a break from my continuous speech,
- as a way of making a point across cultures for audiences who may not have English as a first language, and
- as a means of appealing to the emotion in the audience without resort to a more contrived rhetorics.
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