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Presentation Hacks: It's a performance

32 points by rafaelc 17y ago

kmak 17y ago
http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2010/02/the-secrets-of-malcolm-gladwell/ http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2010/02/the-secrets-of-malco... Got to learn the talks by heart.
- rafaelc 17y ago
  Great link. This is key: "Gladwell’s success as a speaker illustrates one of his homespun themes - hard work pays off. But he has also made an important realisation. He is not giving a speech or a lecture - he is giving a performance. And like any good actor, he knows that you have to learn your lines."
Anon84 17y ago
I learned a lot from this: http://www.amazon.com/Stand-Deliver-Carnegie-Method-Speaking/dp/0743571037/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272379428&sr=8-4 http://www.amazon.com/Stand-Deliver-Carnegie-Method-Speaking... Part of it is common sense, but I found it useful to see it systematized and explained.
madmaze 17y ago
I have found using a screen capture program to capture your presentation while your rehearsing is very useful, there are lots of free and open source ones out there. You have your power point and you basically go through the slides, presenting to your screen capture program. after you can review the video and make changes accordingly. I have also noticed that the real presentation ends up being ~1 1/2 to 2 times as long as your rehearsed version.. this is probably because when i present i force myself to go slow and I always ask the audience to interrupt me when they have questions, therefore you get immediate feedback and you can change things up on the fly
- jamesbritt 17y ago
  I wrote up some comments on using a screencasting tool here http://jamesbritt.com/2010/3/5/a-technique-for-creating-a-talk http://jamesbritt.com/2010/3/5/a-technique-for-creating-a-ta... and http://jamesbritt.com/2010/4/11/a-technique-for-creating-a-talk-part-2-ish http://jamesbritt.com/2010/4/11/a-technique-for-creating-a-t...
Raphomet 17y ago
A thing that I'm realizing more and more is how few presentations are one-offs; that is, when you're developing a presentation, it's actually going to become part of your repertoire, and you're going to be able to use it again and again. Convention and conference speakers certainly reuse presentations, but the same applies to entrepreneurs (to investors) and employees (to senior stakeholders). Rehearsal and practice became more palatable to me once I came to see individual presentations as permanent fixtures in my professional archive of works.
- rafaelc 17y ago
  "A thing that I'm realizing more and more is how few presentations are one-offs; that is, when you're developing a presentation, it's actually going to become part of your repertoire, and you're going to be able to use it again and again." Agree. I was thinking about this today because I'm coming back next year to give a talk to this school about being a "Startup MBA" and how that presentation is applicable to any MBA program. Put in the work once, it pays dividends for a long time.

32 points by rafaelc 17y ago

kmak 17y ago

http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2010/02/the-secrets-of-malcolm-gladwell/ http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2010/02/the-secrets-of-malco... Got to learn the talks by heart.

rafaelc 17y ago
Great link. This is key: "Gladwell’s success as a speaker illustrates one of his homespun themes - hard work pays off. But he has also made an important realisation. He is not giving a speech or a lecture - he is giving a performance. And like any good actor, he knows that you have to learn your lines."

Anon84 17y ago

I learned a lot from this: http://www.amazon.com/Stand-Deliver-Carnegie-Method-Speaking/dp/0743571037/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272379428&sr=8-4 http://www.amazon.com/Stand-Deliver-Carnegie-Method-Speaking... Part of it is common sense, but I found it useful to see it systematized and explained.

madmaze 17y ago

I have found using a screen capture program to capture your presentation while your rehearsing is very useful, there are lots of free and open source ones out there. You have your power point and you basically go through the slides, presenting to your screen capture program. after you can review the video and make changes accordingly. I have also noticed that the real presentation ends up being ~1 1/2 to 2 times as long as your rehearsed version.. this is probably because when i present i force myself to go slow and I always ask the audience to interrupt me when they have questions, therefore you get immediate feedback and you can change things up on the fly

jamesbritt 17y ago
I wrote up some comments on using a screencasting tool here http://jamesbritt.com/2010/3/5/a-technique-for-creating-a-talk http://jamesbritt.com/2010/3/5/a-technique-for-creating-a-ta... and http://jamesbritt.com/2010/4/11/a-technique-for-creating-a-talk-part-2-ish http://jamesbritt.com/2010/4/11/a-technique-for-creating-a-t...

Raphomet 17y ago

A thing that I'm realizing more and more is how few presentations are one-offs; that is, when you're developing a presentation, it's actually going to become part of your repertoire, and you're going to be able to use it again and again. Convention and conference speakers certainly reuse presentations, but the same applies to entrepreneurs (to investors) and employees (to senior stakeholders). Rehearsal and practice became more palatable to me once I came to see individual presentations as permanent fixtures in my professional archive of works.

rafaelc 17y ago
"A thing that I'm realizing more and more is how few presentations are one-offs; that is, when you're developing a presentation, it's actually going to become part of your repertoire, and you're going to be able to use it again and again." Agree. I was thinking about this today because I'm coming back next year to give a talk to this school about being a "Startup MBA" and how that presentation is applicable to any MBA program. Put in the work once, it pays dividends for a long time.