Presentation Zen [50]
Differentiation
Here you can see several (out of over 100) for a presentation I did on this issue of branding and transformation. The client—a major international financial firm—asked me to focus on differentiation and engagement. The 35-minute presentation also featured a few short video clips to underscore my points. As I spoke, the slides appeared behind me on a huge back-lit screen, though I rarely glanced at the screen. I had some quotes and I had some visual examples of what I was talking about. But most of all, I had a point, and I had stories and examples to illustrate that point. The slides provided an important and supportive backdrop that amplified my message and made it stronger.
Shift Happens*
* 1st Prize, Slideshare’s World’s Best Presentation Contest (2007).
Jeff Brenman
Founder and CEO, Apollo Ideas
www.apolloideas.com
The slides in this presentation feature a stylization of a slideshow originally created by Karl Fisch, examining globalization and America’s future in the 21st century. It’s designed for on-line viewing. However, in a live talk some of the text could be removed, making the slides a better complement to the speaker’s words. You can find all the slides used in this presentation on Slideshare.net: www.slideshare.net/jbrenman
An official update to the original Shift Happens video presentation from Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod can be seen on Wikispaces.com:
www.shifthappens.wikispaces.com
The Sustainable Food Lab*
* 3rd Prize, Slideshare’s World’s Best Presentation Contest (2007).
Chris Landry
Director of Development & Communications
Sustainable Food Laboratory
www.sustainablefoodlab.org
The slides here are part of a modified slide deck Chris Landry uses for talks about his organization and the work they do to bring more sustainability to mainstream food systems. Chris added a bit more copy to these slides so they will make a little more sense when viewed without narration in printed form, but the visuals were originally created to augment his live talk. You can find all the slides used in this presentation on Slideshare.net:
www.slideshare.net/chrislandry
Truemors
Guy Kawasaki
Co-founder of Truemors
www.truemors.com
The slides here were used by Guy Kawasaki in a presentation entitled How I Launched a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for only $10,918.09 (which may be the world’s longest title for a pitch). In his own charismatic way Guy revealed a number and then elaborated on the meaning of the figure. The slides are not meant to stand alone though you can get the gist of his main points from the slides. In the live talk the simplicity of the slides was a good complement to the spoken word. You can find all the slides used in this presentation on Slideshare.net:
www.slideshare.net/GKawasaki
The slides were created by Scott Schwertly of Ethos3 Communications (www.ethos3.com).
My Declaration of Independence
Pam Slim
Speaker, coach, business consultant
www.escapefromcubiclenation.com
The few slides here are from a longer presentation called My Declaration of Independence that Pam Slim and her team designed to be used in live presentations and also for an inspirational piece done in Flash and set to music available on her Web site. For the live talk, Pam can remove more of the text so that the slides complement her words.
You can watch the Flash version of this presentation on Pam’s corporate site, Ganas Consulting:
www.ganas.com
Aromatic Chemistry
Dr. Aisyah Saad Abdul Rahim
Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Chemistry
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Universiti Sains Malaysia.
www.pha.usm.my/pharmacy/Aisyah2006.htm
The visuals here are typical of the lecture slides now used by Dr. Saad in her Pharmaceutical Chemistry classes in