May 16th, 2008
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is fun to watch and an excellent example of the ‘naked’ presenting style. A more detailed look over at fourstarters, where I will be blogging all my more in-depth articles from now on: Dean Kamen’s Segway Presentation.
Listen to one expert’s opinion on this.
This brilliant bit of idea peddling analysis by Reg is one of those rare pieces that make you go…
Well…. gee. DUH! I’m an idiot for not realizing this sooner - it’s beyond logical!
I can heartily recommend it.
By the way, for those of you who follow Alper’s dutch blog his entry on negative Netherlands suggests he can really use Reg’s advice here.
Al Gore apparently knows how to present. Well, colour me surprised! I wasn’t aware that politicians are capable of leaving the bureaucratic old boring stuff out of presentations and cook something up that actually impresses the heck out of people.
Add to this the ability to be lighthearted about your own serious mishaps (the whole ‘I invented the internet’ ordeal) and I’m actually impressed.
Funny article by Guy Kawasaki about how to ‘drive your competition crazy’. It’s simple and to the point: It includes just 6 examples, nothing more. Yet reading this article drives the point home quickly, whereas you can waste time talking about that notion without concrete examples, until the cows come home and none of your listeners will probably have a clue. They’ll just be bored out of their skulls.
So here’s my advice to those of you who present information, be it verbally or visually: Tell stories. If possible, interesting and with a humorous edge. It helps if you assume that your audience isn’t stupid. Let them conclude your own point from the stories you tell, instead of laying it out in easily processed chunks of information.
As a bonus, I’ve included a little story about ‘thinking outside the box’ for your perusal, in spirit of the ‘telling stories’ adage. Mostly because I often hear instructions ‘to think out of the box’ yet I doubt that helps any to illustrate what that means.