I like this method personally. It uses slides just to emphasise what you are speaking about rather than forcing audience to read lot of text and make sense of complex diagrams:
ttp://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/09/living_large_ta.html Martin On 11/04/2010 05:48 PM, Pieter Hintjens wrote: > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:49 PM, gonzalo diethelm<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just curious: how do you guys handle presentations then? >> >> Disclaimer: I am part of the big corporate world... But I am also >> interested in improving the way I present material to an audience. > > Personally, I just walk around and talk to the audience. No slides, > and keeping the lights on. If you are in a meeting room, sit next to > the whiteboard and draw diagrams. Usually it's far easier to get into > questions like that, and some presentations can end up mostly Q&A, > which is ideal. > > One approach is to learn to build a structure that matches the time > you have and stick to it, while pulling in stuff from people who > presented before you, from questions, etc. So a 5-minute talk is "say > what you will say, then say it, then recapitulate" whereas in a > 15-minute talk you can cover three main points. > > In general, less is more, stick to your key points and repeat them > using suitable body language (stand, don't sit), expression (smile), > gestures (hands), whatever emphasis helps. > > Groups like Toastmasters are very helpful for improving your public > speaking skills. > > That's my experience, anyhow. > > -Pieter > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
