How to organize a presentation / where I got the idea for the accordion style of pitching ( )

Cliff Atkinson’s visual approach to PowerPoint slide presentations has become a virtual industry centered around this second edition of his book; his Beyond Bullet Points web site (http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/) with a blog, free templates, and links to updated material; and plenty of samples being created and posted online by those who have learned what he is teaching. Showing readers how to avoid slides which are text-laden and full of bullet-point items read to bored learners by substandard presenters, Atkinson provides inspiration for anyone who wants to create online lessons which will be effective, memorable, and fun for everyone involved in e-learning. ( )

I tend to be involved in more interactive meetings than the typical one-way PowerPoint presentation, but every discussion needs a framework at the beginning. The storyboarding templates alone are worth the price of the book. Unless, of course, you like to see people dozing off or checking their blackberries during your presentation. ( )

Cliff Atkinson draait al diverse Office generaties mee. De 2007 versie belandde via Amazon op mijn boekenplank. Death by PowerPoint is een veel voorkomend verschijnsel, en methoden om presentaties te verrijken in plaats te vernielen, zijn nuttig voor elke presentator. De techniek van storyboarding staat centraal in Atkinson's boek. Eerst script schrijven, dan pas scenes invullen en als laatste plaatjes schieten. Met een beetje geluk houd je geen bullet point meer over in je volgende presentaties, maar stijgt de erkenning voor je structuur, boodschap en vorm. Met een CD ROM, waarop de Word en PowerPoint templates voor de structuur, verschillende appendices, de PDF versie van het boek, en dergelijke staan, is je presentatiegereedschap weer up-to-date. ( )

Excellent advice on how to give attention-holding presentations. It boils down to: Write an outline; rehearse; write a speech based on the outline; rehearse; make some slides to go with the speech; rehearse. It really puts the emphasis on what is important - your presentation, not the slides that go with it. Sort of an alternative to Tufte's advice, which could be paraphrased as: don't give a PPT presentation; write a technical memo, instead. ( )