An unashamed and unapologetic attempt to steal good presentation ideas.

[TheGoddessBlossom]

In two weeks time I have to present a case study on one of my accounts via webex and conference call, to my global team of colleagues. Sigh. I have been volunteered.

Have pretty much got my slides in order but it struck me that I could add some zing to relieve the boredeom of presenting yet another dry set of powerpoint slides and also the boredom of the people forced to listen to me!

Anyone got any stories of entertaining/original/innovative presentations/ways of presenting they have seen/heard that I can steal whilst keeping the content pretty much the same?

All suggestions very welcome. Also going to post this in chat.

Cheers,

Bloss

use prezi

Do you really need any text on your slides? I've seen some great presentations where the slides are images that comment on or illustrate what's being discussed, rather than being the same words that you're about to say.

I also saw a very funny one on an incredibly dull subject where the speaker had created little jokes within his slides, amusing labelled diagrams and so on.

Or how about relevant cartoons every so often to illustrate the case study?

Thankyou grendel...do need text really as slides get circulated after and need to speak for themselves.

Like the idea of cartoons/graphics etc.

Global audience: don't use jokes, they'll be met with stony silence ime!

Keep it clear and simple, punchy headlines, minimal.

I hate it when ppwerpoints are cluttered it's so difficult to see on webex!

Would second prezi. I know many a staffer hired on the use of it!

Every presentation skills course I've done has recommended no text (or very little) on slides - they distract and if the presentation can just be read there's no point you delivering it. If need be, notes can be sent out afterwards, but the slides should not be the script of your presentation, people will read that instead of listening to you.

interesting.what's prezi? i have to do a presentation for an interview next week. i haven't done one for years and i have to get the job.

When presenting via Webex, you do actually need more text and less fussy slides than if you are presenting in person. The additional information for non viewers (although in this case, they should just use the record facility on Webex which works beautifully) can be put in the notes for each slide.

I don't like jokes or cartoons in presentations for an international audience - when people are working in their second language they either just don't get them or are distracted trying to work them out and not tuning into the actual presentation.

The best way to make your presentation interesting is to be interested in it yourself tbh - you sound very negative about it, and all the fancy stuff in the world can't overcome that.

I second Prezi, but you might not have enough time time used to it.

How about including a YouTube clip - relevant, tangential, ice-breaking, food for thought?

i'm liking the less text more pictures - i may well go for that. I only have 10 minutes so need to cut the waffle and impress. Thatnks.

sorry - that was an uncalled for gatecrash but your thread jumped out as i was fretting about mine.

I have a real problem with the privacy settings for Prezi. The free (public) version - there is a clue there - allows you to download and present offline but it stores your presentation in the cloud and according to Prezi's own T&C:

"Public presentations can be viewed by other Prezi users and will appear in the searchable Prezi database. All presentations created by Prezi Public users (as defined below) will be ?public? presentations".

so I cannot see a way of making a presentation private on a free account - fine for most stuff but one to be aware of if you are using a free public account to present work related, possibly, sensitive info. [http://prezi.com/terms-of-use/ T&C here]]

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