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Social Networking Presentation Made Simple

Friday, August 27th, 2010

A PowerPoint presentation from the the Dachis Group aims to make your understanding of the social networking revolution that much easier. The Dachis Group, based in Austin Texas has the mission:

“to help businesses create and capture value from emerging trends in technology, society and the workplace. We call this approach Social Business Design: the intentional creation of dynamic and socially calibrated systems, process, and culture.”

Phew!

Their mission isn’t any easier to understand when it’s portrayed with a PowerPoint presentation slide.

It just goes to show that no matter the level of innovation involved there’s much more to presenting with PowerPoint than meets the eye. Simple design, simple text and an easy colour palette are the foundations for a good presentation. A coherent message is also another good thing!

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Presentation Management-Speak Hides Drug Development Message

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Integrating JChem and Marvin with an ELN from ChemAxon on Vimeo.

Amsterdam was the scene last month of the ELNs (Electronic Lab Notebooks) & Advanced Laboratory Solutions conference. Dr. Ian Berry of Evotec (UK) Ltd was a key presenter with his presentation titled, Integrating JChem and Marvin. It wasn’t the best title for a presentation; more of a subject description really.

Management speak was a problem with this presentation. The presenter’s easy-going style, characterised by him swallowing his words at the end of sentences, was nothing compared to his presenting language. Here are some examples:

“An intuitive system”

“off the shelf, integrated system…”

“fairly agnostic…”

“drill down…”

“agnostic to the cartridge…”

“out of the box…”

Jargon is one thing–particularly at this very specialised conference. But management-speak?

In a seemingly never-ending litany of management-speak the Evotec presenter took his audience through an unremarkable PowerPoint presentation; unremarkable in that it was just like so many other PowerPoint presentations that are inflicted on audiences in offices every day. It featured the standard “about us” slide at the beginning, a corporate template and plenty of busy, wordy slides.

The scale of the management-speak was such that the Evotec Principal Software Developer’s message was dangerously close to being lost. And that wasn’t his aim. The best bit? He took a question at the end of his presentation, proving that someone was clearly paying attention. Well done.

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Arresting Presentation Ends in Charges and Bail for Audience

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Roodhouse, Illinois

Mayor Joe Snyder's Town Hall presentation ends in woman's arrest

Beleaguered Mayor, Joe Snyder, had the perfect answer for a questioning member of his presentation audience. He had her arrested.

The Mayor of Roodhouse, Illinois was presenting with colleagues in the City Hall. At every juncture, his audience protagonist and local resident, Terry Garner, insisted on asking a question. The offence?

Apparently the Mayor had requested that questions be asked at the end of the presentation. When audience member Terry Garner persisted in asking questions during the presentation the Mayor had her arrested in the meeting room.

She was subsequently charged and required to post a bail of $100–now that’s some severe penalty for asking questions in a presentation.

Perhaps the Mayor and his colleagues might want to re-examine how they engage their audience with questions and answers without actually arresting them during their presentation.

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Cameron Avoids FIFA 2018 Presentation Red Card

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
David Cameron MP

The Prime Minister avoids a red card at the FIFA 2018 World Cup presentation

The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has avoided an embarrassing red card from FIFA. He’s not able to attend key presentations next week in London when the FIFA 2018 World Cup inspection team comes to the UK.

It’s reported that David Cameron made a personal phone call to FIFA President, Sepp Blater, on Sunday night. In that phone call the Prime Minister made clear his total support for the England 2018 bid, but also explained that his family commitments in Cornwall mean that he can’t join the presenting team.

The FIFA inspection team, currently in Russia, visit London and possible World Cup sites in England next week.

Not to be totally out-flanked David Cameron has recorded a personal presentation to the FIFA inspection team ready for the presentations next week.

Having the Prime Minister’s support is one thing. Getting the 2018 World Cup fixture is quite another.

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Kaiser Chief’s PowerPoint Overload

Monday, August 16th, 2010
Daniel J. Rinkenberger

Daniel J. Rinkenberger Presentation at the Jefferies 6th Annual Global Industrial and A&D Conference

A PowerPoint presentation by Daniel J. Rinkenberger, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Kaiser Aluminum last week highlighted many of the issues that senior executives have with PowerPoint presentations.

His presentation was a mass of bullet points and small text descriptions most unlikely to be readable by his audience at the Jefferies 6th Annual Global Industrial and A&D Conference in New York–a prestigious event.

Doubtless he presented every single detail of financial reference so that the presentation could be read later by his audience. That’s a problem, because no one ever reads a PowerPoint presentation after the event.

The presentation contained an appendix at the end. That was a good touch for the question and answer session following the presentation. But, here again, the text on the slides was too small to read.

His visual imagery was to a good standard but the images could have been larger and used more extensively.

The theme of strategic direction was evident. But it could have been so much better presented with more use of visual imagery and fewer text slides.

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