Archive for May, 2009
The Art of The Chart
Posted by: | CommentsHere’s a humorous speech I did last fall that incorporated humorous chart ideas from several funny sources:
- Jessica Hagy of Indexed
- Standup comedian Demetri Martin
- Graphjam.com
It is interesting that, even though the audience could read the punchlines in the charts, they laughed the most when it was explained to them.
Great fun and lots of useful learning.
One thing I re-learned is that hand drawing charts is very labor intensive. I sketched out the chart first on paper, then transferred it to the chart. It took many hours and nearly the whole pad. PowerPoint is way easier!
Related articles:
- Ten Flip Chart tips from Using Flip Charts Blog
- Using Flip Charts as Visual Enhancers – from Presentation Zen
- Five Ways to Use Flipcharts – PDF document from Using Flip Charts Blog
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Mastering The Masterstream
Posted by: | CommentsIn this video of a recent speech project, I am attempting a number of things.
First – I am completing an advanced Toastmasters speech, “The Sales Training Speech.” In this project I talk about a new selling methodology called, “Masterstream.” Also, I have one more speech after this one and I’ll have my ATB (Advanced Communicator Bronze)
Second – I am using a new non-linear presentation technology called “Prezi.” See www.prezi.com
Finally – because of the limitations of my camera’s lighting management, the presentation was washed out on the screen. I re-recorded the Prezi presentation and placed it in a “picture-in-picture” on top of the screen in the video.
I covered a lot of different learnings with this one.
Enjoy and your comments are welcome.
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Force of Nature
Posted by: | CommentsNow that the barriers to online video have fallen, many different channels are available to archive and distribute video. This can be a fun thing for individuals and a GREAT marketing opportunity for businesses. It is one of the new media tools that I now promote for businesses and professionals and an easy skill to pick up (even faster when you hire someone like me to show you how!)
Traditional marketing tools are still effective as well and when combined with new media, can compliment and enhance each other.
Over the years, I’ve shot video of many of my speeches and presentations, but never did much with them (other than harshly criticize the content and watch my hair disappear.) So now that I have all this video and many channels, I’ll start posting them.
Here’s a recent speech I did for the Princeton Toastmasters International Speech Contest. I won at the club level and didn’t place at the next contest. I have that video too and I’ll post a critique of the differences in the two speeches in my next post.
For now, enjoy.
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