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15/08/06

(Giving) presentations

I’ve been asked to give a lecture at Dundee’s School of Media Arts & Imaging later this year. I have also, inadvertently, and through reading blogs such as Seth Godin and Guy Kawasaki, come across a number of sites about how to make good presentations. (Most of these sites talk about making presentations to VCs for millions of dollars, which are a little different to 120 students in a theatre. But you still want to do your best and learning from the best is a good place to start.)

Ted (Technology, entertainment, design) has archived all of its talks. I’m not familiar with TED but apparently super-smart people get 18 minutes only. Which is a test to be interesting.

We also have presentation zen which is great on the deathly joys of powerpoint. And we have Guy Kawasaki, who has the 10/20/30 rule of powerpoint

a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points. While I’m in the venture capital business, this rule is applicable for any presentation to reach agreement: for example, raising capital, making a sale, forming a partnership, etc.

Guy has a whole section on Pitching and presenting.

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  1. # Comment by Mike Coulter @ 1:39 pm, August 15, 2006:

    Dear Peter,

    Blimey, what a great find your blog is. (For about a gazillion reasons.)

    I was just going to book tickets for the LongTail presentation at the Book Festival, then for some reason I Googled it, and found your blog and ads on YouTube.

    When stuff like that happens, it’s just wonderful. I love this technology. WoooHoooo!

    Any way, re your presentation, a bloke called Russell Davies who, I think, used to be head of Planning at Nike had a few posts on presentations, that may be of use to you before the Dundee thing. (Hang on I’ll go off and find the url for you.)

    Here we go.

    http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/presentations/index.html

    Incidentally, I know the boys at Newhaven, (I used to be a copywriter), and it’s great to see a company like Apt in the same creative space.

    I also hope your business goes gang-busters, because not enough brands or agencies in Edinburgh ‘get’ the whole Web 2.0 thing. But will with more companies like yours around.

    Now all that remains for me to do is hit that little Entries RSS button down there.

    all the best

    Mike.

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