For those of you who like to have something in the background, here is a technique to give you something that doesn’t overpower your content. The video can be viewed in 720p if you select that option from within the player.
Archive for the ‘powerpoint’ Category
60 second suggestion: suddenly I see
Posted in 60 second suggestion, powerpoint, tagged backgrounds, linkedin, master, powerpoint on September 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Should I stay or should I go?
Posted in keynote, powerpoint, presentation, tagged linkedin on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps the title is a bit misleading but for those of us who are wedded to using slide show software I thought it may be worth offering an alternative view. The Speakeasy event in central Manchester the other night demonstrated that quick presentations could be put together effectively in five minutes with no slide show. [...]
Sorry seems to be the hardest word
Posted in powerpoint, Uncategorized, tagged linkedin on July 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There seems to have been a long list of recent articles suggesting that PowerPoint is somehow responsible for dull presentations. Of course, my incredulity at those articles were eclipsed by the news that a Swiss political party has been formed with one aim: to ban PowerPoint. I was reminded of my University days wandering round [...]
60 second suggestion: Stop making sense
Posted in keynote, powerpoint, presentation, tagged linkedin on July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A slide should not really make sense on its own. It should exist for you to talk around. What exists on screen is something to act as an aide memoire for the viewer, something to link what you said and the way you make them feel with an image or a phrase. You should always [...]
60 second suggestion: space, the final frontier
Posted in 60 second suggestion, keynote, powerpoint, presentation, tagged keynote, linkedin, powerpoint, presentation, space on July 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The viewable area of a slide can be cut by up to 40% depending on the template you use. The distraction caused by the use of banners, logos and background images also makes placing decent images that much harder. Consider using a blank slide. Completely blank. Then place your image. The temptation is to scale [...]
The cure for boredom is curiosity
Posted in keynote, linkedin, powerpoint, presentation, tagged deck, keynote, powerpoint, presentation, Reluctant rambler on July 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There are few things in the world of presentations that are more onerous than the “deck”. For those of you that don’t know, the “deck” is the corporate starting point for presentations. It contains a number of slides and it is seen as a convenience having all that content in one place. That convenience only [...]
