The Extreme Presentation(tm) Method

Chart Chooser in MATLAB

Another addition to the Chart Chooser series, with a difference.  This time the language is MATLAB. Doug at Mathworks wanted to show that it was possible to create all the charts in the Chart Chooser in MATLAB, which he did, as you can see below.  Details on how he did this are on his blog.

The original Chart Chooser post is here, and all the other languages are here.  

Nancy Duarte on vacation - her review of Advanced Presentations by Design

This was exceedingly kind of Nancy.  

Nancy Duarte, as most of you know, I think, is a principal of Duarte Design (who are famous for, among other things, designing Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth presentation) and author of Slide:ology.  

Nancy took time out of her vacation to post this very supportive review of Advanced Presentations by Design on Youtube.  

Che grafico scegliere? (Chart Chooser in Italian)

In our continuing series of Chart Chooser around the world, Alessandra Cimatti of the lesswire blog has kindly translated it into Italian.  We can all now enjoy the Chart Chooser in the beautiful language of Dante.

Download pdf. 

CTAM - a summary of presentation impact research on one slide

This afternoon I will be giving the closing keynote at the 2009 CTAM Research Summit.  CTAM is the Cable and Television Association for Marketing.  I will be spending part of the keynote discussing implications from research on presentation impact, and specifically, for this group, how to get your clients to act on your research findings.  

I summarized the main takeaways on one Conference Room style slide, which I am making available here for conference attendees and anyone else who may be interested.  Download the pdf here.

 

Deck 'em - a narrative approach to teaching presentation design

I have been thinking for the past year or so that someone should try to teach presentation design skills by writing a story about a poor suffering employee struggling to design a presentation.  I thought of doing it myself, although my publisher told me he didn't think it would sell. 

But now someone has done it, and quite nicely.  Scott Schwertly, of Ethos3 Communications and Slidemagnet.com, with Jake Greene, has written Deck 'Em, a brief ebook that tells a story about how to create stunning presentations.  I just read it this morning and I highly recommend it - just $4.99 and a very quick read.  Get it here. 

The approach taught in this story is what I call Ballroom style.  My own work and book focuses more on Conference Room style presentations.  For the difference between the two, see this post first, and here for more.