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- Rule #1Make sure you enjoy your presentation more than your audience does, no matter how detailed or serious the content.
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- Rule #3Most people prefer to listen to words, and see pictures.
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6th March 2007 at 22:24
Full headings in slides?
Cliff Atkinsons finds a reference that a full sentence which talks to the purpose of the slide is more effective than a slide with a simple, truncated heading.
This makes sense when you consider that people receive information better when they’re talked to like people. I can see this working. How can we use this, not only in presentation, but also in video?
The other day I had a discussion with Toby Touby a freelancer where we both agreed that the keywords in her video needed more text to humanise the point and inevitably make more sense – not just an isolated phrase, but a sentence. Not just the word as it appears, but the interviewees key point in a nutshell. Overall, we found they were more digestible, as they were easier to identify with.
What do y’all think?
One Comment
W0lfy on 27th August 2007 at 10:24:
Taking the post over to the Think tank.