Viv McWaters and I have created a brand new training program on how to make Insanely Great Slideshow Presentations. Insanely Great Slideshows View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Where did the training program come from? Over the past few years, I have had many discussions with Viv about the Powerpoint presentations that we observe in our facilitation work. Given our role is about group ‘process’, we are in a unique position to analyse the effectiveness of the presentations we see. Why? We do not suffer from the CURSE OF KNOWLEDGE that comes from working inside the ‘content’ of the …

Another great TEDcast! This time from Tim Brown of Ideo. You can watch the 25 minute presentation here … or here … Here’s my visual summary of the key messages. I find drawing pictures of the ‘key points’ a much more useful way of storing messages than by using words. Geoff

I have been ranting about the use of visual images to support a story, key messages or to communicate your ‘thing’ to others. Here is a 4 minute presentation by Andy Hobsbawm that has a number of great features: Great use of visual images to support his story – notice his slides contain no words (they don’t need to!) His presentation has 1 core premise and everything hangs if it … the use of creative stuff is needed to inspire people to act in certain ways He also uses a short video to reinforce his idea (that he sells very …

Here’s something a bit different for Yes!AndSpace … Local musician, Tim Wood, has written a beautiful song … in every sense of the word. We have played around some photos of local people and produced this video. Feel free to share it with anyone … pass it onto people you love. Enjoy. You can download (and purchase) the single from CD Baby here. Beautiful by Tim Wood from Geoff Brown on Vimeo. Cheers Geoff

I had a quick scan of other blog that I read and here are the highlights: 1. This short post from Chirs Corrigan (via Clark Williams-Derry) Some useful observaions about the current financial crises: 1. Unlikely events are common 2. Markets don’t know much 3. Unsustainable things stop I especially like the last one.  It doesn’t really matter if people believe things are unsustainable or not.  If something is unsustainable it will stop, and that’s that. 2. This great slideshow on Slideshare from Viv McWaters – what a great way to present evaluation findings! Chicago Improv Conference 2008 – Feedback …