Comments on: Pictures and narative http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2006/11/23/pictures-and-narative/ It's all about the human experience Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:20:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Rowan Manahan http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2006/11/23/pictures-and-narative/comment-page-1/#comment-30636 Rowan Manahan Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:07:07 +0000 http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2006/11/23/pictures-and-narative/#comment-30636 Hi Marc, This piece inspired me to produce the bullet-pointed PowerPoint you described. I hope you enjoy ... http://fortifyservices.blogspot.com/2007/06/powerpoint-fairytale.html Best regards, Rowan Hi Marc,
This piece inspired me to produce the bullet-pointed PowerPoint you described. I hope you enjoy …
http://fortifyservices.blogspot.com/2007/06/powerpoint-fairytale.html

Best regards,

Rowan

]]> By: Hari http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2006/11/23/pictures-and-narative/comment-page-1/#comment-6269 Hari Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:22:10 +0000 http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2006/11/23/pictures-and-narative/#comment-6269 Comment in the worng place because I could not send the message through the Main contact form Hi, Just read some of your trip logs , You write pretty well, Do gimme a shout if you are ever in Melbourne , woudl be great to meet up, Hari PS: are you still travelling now? Comment in the worng place because I could not send the message through the Main contact form

Hi,
Just read some of your trip logs ,

You write pretty well,
Do gimme a shout if you are ever in Melbourne , woudl be great to meet up,

Hari

PS: are you still travelling now?

]]> By: Rowan Manahan http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2006/11/23/pictures-and-narative/comment-page-1/#comment-5538 Rowan Manahan Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:05:24 +0000 http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2006/11/23/pictures-and-narative/#comment-5538 Amen to that! Your analogy is perfect - my daughters would never tolerate an A4, text-only version of their key bedtime stories. Kids are such a brutally honest audience that they force high production values on the publishing trade. I am told by my publisher that there is little or no margin in a kid's picture book - commissioning and production costs preclude big bucks being made on the books. Hence the mugs, flasks, toothbrushes, audiobooks, colouring books and ancilliary flimflam that accompany successful kids stories. The problem in the professional presentation environment is that most people genuinely don't have the time to do a Dr Suess on their presentations. My solution? Make far fewer presentations of a far higher quality. There are way too many self-indulgent, pompous, and frankly unnecessary presentations made on this planet. I say communicate some other way for the most part and make your presentations exciting, rare and anticipated. Can you imagine the disappointment if Dick Hardt got up and delivered a 20 slide, text-heavy, all bullet-pointed talk using a Microsoft standard template in PowerPoint? There'd be a riot! How about if U2 dropped ALL their multimedia stage show and just went with an acoustic set in a stadium with 80,000 people? Bloodbath! Every time you get to your feet, you are competing for a share of people's busy headspace. You are competing with working issues, family issues, relationship issues, money issues. You are competing with the latest movie release, slick graphics on the evening news, beautifully formatted magazines and the readability and friendliness of every well-designed website in the world. Get serious about your presentations. Be the best PowerPoint Primate you can be! If you are not prepared to do this, either go back to using smoke signals or get ready to be ignored when you are up on your feet. Amen to that! Your analogy is perfect – my daughters would never tolerate an A4, text-only version of their key bedtime stories. Kids are such a brutally honest audience that they force high production values on the publishing trade. I am told by my publisher that there is little or no margin in a kid’s picture book – commissioning and production costs preclude big bucks being made on the books. Hence the mugs, flasks, toothbrushes, audiobooks, colouring books and ancilliary flimflam that accompany successful kids stories.

The problem in the professional presentation environment is that most people genuinely don’t have the time to do a Dr Suess on their presentations. My solution? Make far fewer presentations of a far higher quality. There are way too many self-indulgent, pompous, and frankly unnecessary presentations made on this planet. I say communicate some other way for the most part and make your presentations exciting, rare and anticipated.

Can you imagine the disappointment if Dick Hardt got up and delivered a 20 slide, text-heavy, all bullet-pointed talk using a Microsoft standard template in PowerPoint? There’d be a riot! How about if U2 dropped ALL their multimedia stage show and just went with an acoustic set in a stadium with 80,000 people? Bloodbath!

Every time you get to your feet, you are competing for a share of people’s busy headspace. You are competing with working issues, family issues, relationship issues, money issues. You are competing with the latest movie release, slick graphics on the evening news, beautifully formatted magazines and the readability and friendliness of every well-designed website in the world.

Get serious about your presentations. Be the best PowerPoint Primate you can be! If you are not prepared to do this, either go back to using smoke signals or get ready to be ignored when you are up on your feet.

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