The Extreme Presentation(tm) Method

Presentation Wisdom - Search Engine

Here's an idea: what if there were a search engine that covered all the best presentation sites, so that you could look up any presentation topic by searching all those sites simultaneously.

I used Google Custom Search, currently in beta, to create the Presentation Wisdom search engine, and primed it with the following sites:

http://www.extremepresentation.typepad.com/*
http://www.presentationzen.com/*
http://sixminutes.dlugan.com/*
http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/*
http://www.edwardtufte.com/*
http://www.indezine.com/blog/*
http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/*
http://perceptualedge.com/blog/*
http://talk.presentationsroundtable.com/*
http://www.curved-vision.co.uk/presentation-skills-blog/*

Try it: Presentation Wisdom.

I'm open to suggestions for additional sites.

A new home

As of today, the Extreme Presentation blog has moved here, from http://perspres.blogspot.com/. I moved a few posts from the old blog to this site, below.

What this blog is - and isn't - about

This site - Extreme Presentation - is focused on presentations that face some kind of persuasion challenge: to persuade an audience to change their minds about something, to do something, or to stop doing something else. It is not focused on presentations that are merely designed to inform. It is particularly oriented towards presentations that seek to persuade their audiences of recommendations that are complex and/or controversial. Persuasion of complex or controversial recommendations is the most difficult task for presentation that I know of, and therefore I intend to concentrate on this toughest challenge.

The site is focused on the design of such presentations. It is not focused on delivery of the presentation, i.e. actually presenting the material, because I believe that there are already many excellent resources for this.

The Purpose of this Blog

I have set up this site to serve as a log of a research effort on presentation design that I am undertaking, and as a forum for discussing the issues and findings from this research. Over the past three years, I have been working with heads of market research from hundreds of leading firms around the world, members of the Market Research Executive Board. During this time, one of the more common complaints I have heard from them is how difficult it is to get their staff to learn how to improve their presentation skills. This blog, and the research effort that underlies it, are dedicated to helping overcome that challenge. (Originally posted Jan 24, 2005)