Presentation Tricks III

And the last one:
http://chrisbrogan.blogspot.com/2006/02/presentations-bring-out-your-inner.html

Presentation Tricks II

Another interesting article from Chris Brogan showing how to do a presentation:

http://chrisbrogan.blogspot.com/2006/04/presentation-and-storytellers-promises.html

It gives a very useful overview of how to do a presentation. Main ideas:
- Finish Strong
- You are the Authority

Presentation Tricks

Reading lifehack.org I have found an interesting article from Chris Brogan showing useful presentation tricks:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/my-best-presentation-tricks.html

The basic ideas presented are:
- Tell Stories and add People to the stories
- Touch Their Eyes: when preparing the slides concentrate on the visual content (TIP: flickr)
- A Presentation Doesn’t Equal a PowerPoint Side Deck
- You are an Entertainer

I like especially this part of the article:
"A story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. You’ve heard this before, and you understand, but apply it to your presentation. And no, I don’t mean, “Here’s what we’ll talk about, talk-talk, that’s what we talked about.” Stories also have characters. So, start your story at the beginning with a character. If you’re describing a product, start with the user of the product. Or start with the person who moves your product from one business to the other. But put PEOPLE in your story.

At the beginning, your character should have a problem. Maybe she has too many spreadsheets and not enough linking, and people are starting to give her information in ways that her spreadsheets are overflowing their banks. In the middle, your character meets the new product, a database, and now she’s really excited because the database can do EVERYTHING the spreadsheets were lacking. By the end of the story, your character is poised on all the great new ways the database will save her in the future, and she’s looking forward to applying her new skills to a new challenge."

Alesti RSS reader

The other day reading microsiervos.com I discovered a web 2.0 RSS reader that I like very much:
http://www.alesti.org/