Here’s a nice post by Viv McWaters that sums up my experience as a facilitator of group workshops where Powerpoint presentations are delivered. I’ll add to Viv’s commentary and say … I agree that bullet points on slides should be banned 🙂 and … In my recent experience, the best presentations happen when the technology fails and presenters have to go back to their ‘story’ and forget the script that emerges from text-dense slides. They often gravitate to the nearest whiteboard and start to draw pictures to help explain their key points. Why don’t their slides contain the same pictures? …

Here is another example of using Slideshare to communicate. This slideshow is designed to bring specific aspects of a proposal to life with images and pictures. Each figure supports text in the proposal. I used Comic Life to create the images & captions and then inserted them into Powerpoint and then uploaded to slideshare. Tip = View in Full Screen mode. View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: open space) I’ll update you on how this was received by my client. Cheers Geoff

Hat Tip to Lee Lefever for this one (we must share a similar sense of humor). I’ve been prattling-on about the use of visual images to enhance communication in “serious” contexts like climate change and behaviour change for too long now. Time to lighten the tone and have some fun with Demitri Martin … Cheers Geoff

The crew at slideshare have just announced the winners of the World Best Presentation Competition. The judges include Garr Reynolds and Nancy Durate, 2 of the best. So if you do not even read Garr and Nancy’s books … at least take the time to click through these presentations and figure out for yourself why they are so good. I have added some points at the bottom of this post. Remember, that if these were to be delivered to an audience, the presenter may even remove more words from the few that exist now. THIRST View SlideShare presentation or Upload …

So what do Google, Scott McLeod and comics have in common? They have just collaborated to launch Google’s Chrome Web Browser. Why comics? They are visual … they tell a story (which are hardwired to understand) … they turn the ‘complex’ into the ‘simple’ AND they are FUN! When Clay Shirky talks about the fall of tradition organizational structures (Institutions) in the “collaboration” space that is Web 2.0, he also points out that traditional institutions resist the new (often creative right brained) approaches to business and marketing. Here is a classic quote from CNN’s article “Google unveils free browser Chrome” …