Garr Reynolds just pointed me to this video.
I have been working as as sound designer, so I just had to share it. And as always, Mr. Reynolds has put it into a bigger picture and gives you some good advice on presentation skills.
Related post: The Amen Break
(Image by Kim Erlandsen)
A while ago I was invited to do the keynote presentation for the national blog conference in Slovenia, Blogres. I am honored and of course I will use this opportunity to meet some interesting people, see the beautiful country of Slovenia and have fun with the challenge of making a very interesting presentation for the conference. See you in Ljubljana on saturday! 🙂
The official english page for the event is here.
I have published my presentation from EBU Connect 2007 on SlideShare. You find it embedded in this article as well. If you read this blog in an RSS reader you have to jump to eirikso.com and view the post there to get the full picture…
https://s3.amazonaws.com:443/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=47581&doc=back-to-the-future-12362
I have tried to include relevant links in the presentation. I will also try to post more articles on the content during the next couple of weeks. Trying to make the presentation interesting for the people that didn’t attend as well.
You find the full photo set over on SmugMug. And at this point a quick flashback to Croatia 2006 could be interesting as well.
As you can see, I have abandoned Gallery on my own site in favour of Flickr. I will get back with some thoughts on this.
Update:
…and now it seems like Flickr is out and SmugMug is in.
Recently I promised that I would speak at the Rose d’Or festival in Lucerne, Switzerland. However, I had to change my schedule because I need to do a very important presentation for the board of directors at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation the same day. Colleague and blogger, Mr. Oyvind Solstad of Brilliantdays is replacing me at the Rose d’Or. I am sure it will be a fantastic presentation.
But, I will still be talking at the EBU Connect conference in the same city this friday. See you there!
…and for the people that will not be in Lucerne the next couple of days I promise to report here on the most interesting presentations. That is, if I have the time to attend to anything but my own presentation… Now I need to make it. Rehearsals tomorrow at 1800…
It was an honour to be asked back to Mediaforum (Norwegian site) “by popular demand” after my presentation at Lillehammer last autumn. I had a great time at the conference today and enjoyed all the very high quality speakers. Yes, all of them was very interesting and especially former lead design anthropologist at Microsoft, Anne Kirah from 180academy had a lot of interesting thoughts to share. I was fortunate enough to be able to spend some time with her in the bar after the conference. Enthusiastic, intelligent and interesting indeed!
Because I have a presentation style where I use the slides to illustrate what I say it is pretty useless for me to simply share a presentation in form of the slides only. But people keeps asking, so here it is. Could work as a repitition for the people that attended.
I was quite happy with the result after doing my own performance. It’s a presentation that I haven’t given before, so I was impressed when I clocked in at 24 minutes (I had 25 minutes to give the presentation and when running a presentation for the first time it is always difficult to know exactly how much time I’m going to use).
https://s3.amazonaws.com:443/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=40272&doc=nrk-og-sosiale-medier-2492
I am experimenting with SlideShare, so here is a link to my presentation. Above you find it embedded in this post as well. As long as I don’t make a special version of my presentation for SlideShare it is quite useless. They should add the possibility to read a voiceover on the presentations I have published. That would give me a true possibility to share the presentation. But hey, they’re named SlideShare and not PresnetationShare. Garr Reynolds have some interesting thoughts on this service as well.
Bonus links: Seth Godin points me to one of the worst powerpoints ever. But I still think this one is the winner.
I have done huge amounts of presentations lately and have not been especially clever announcing them here. Sorry about that. So here’s a little update on some of my future speaking egnagements:
Mediaforum
April 19th, Oslo, Norway
The presentation will be done in Norwegian. I will be talking about how the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation use social media. My first question would be “What is social media?”. A question that it is nearly impossible to answer. My focus will be how the NRK plan to use the possibilities of two way communication, crowdsourcing and user generated content.
Mediebedriftenes Markedsdager
April 24th, Drammen, Norway
The presentation will be done in Norwegian. About how digital technology change media habits and our life in general.
EBU Connect
May 4th, Lucerne, Switzerland
The presentation will be done in English. Title: “Back to the future”. I presented at EBU Connect in Croatia last year and have been honoured by an invitation for this year as well. I will talk about new media and how it transforms the way we do branding, marketing and communication with our audience.
Rose d’Or
May 8th, Lucerne, Switzerland
The presentation will be done in English. I will talk about what the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation does regarding mobile content.
Edit:
I have to do a very important presentation for the board of directors at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and needed to change my schedule. Colleague and blogger, Mr. Oyvind Solstad of Brilliantdays will present at the Rose d’Or in my place. I am sure that will be an excellent presentation as well.
Okay, so this image is a bit old. It’s from my speech at EBU Connect in Croatia this spring, but it is very difficult to snap pictures of myself while speaking, so I didn’t have any images from my latest presentations…
For the last couple of weeks I have done a lot of them. For very interesting, diverse and utterly intelligent audiences. It’s a privilege to be able to meet so many interesting and skilled people. After all presentations people keep asking about a copy of my slides. Because I use a presentation style completely free for bullet points and complex technical charts the slides are not worth much unless you remember every word I said. For my presentations the slides are only a set of illustrations.
I try to post as much as possible on this blog and here are some links that discuss parts of the issues I have been talking about lately:
Articles related to my presentation
The power of citizen journalism
Content isn’t king
When will a new technology break through?
Helpful clues for the media industry
Understanding a new channel
Predicting the future
The convergence that makes things difficult
Commercials gone wild
The future of TV distribution
Five ways to check a web site
Idiots
The Long Tail in your living room
Viral Ads: It’s an Epidemic
Kjøpe en iPod Nano
Some essential blogs to read
A brand new video channel!
I am also interested in presentation styles and skills. I have posted some thoughts on what I think makes a good presentation. You find some of them here:
Two essential tricks in PowerPoint
How to avoid making boring presentations
How to make illustrations
For my regular readers all of this is old thoughts. If you want to keep yourself updated the best thing to do is to subscribe to my email updates or my RSS-feed. You find the information you need here.
I am sitting here working on a presentation. Then I decided to share an example of how I just worked with one single slide. Here we go: In my presentation I am going to talk about four ways to determine the size and potential influence of a blog. This is the first slide I made as an introduction to that part of the presentation:
This is pretty clear, but boring. I needed an illustration. So, I grab my digital camera, find a yardstick and snap a picture. Because I had decided to post an article on this I timed the whole process. Six minutes. From the point where I decided to make an illustration to the image was in the presentation. Yes, it’s the most obvious illustration of them all, but it works. And now this image is in my repository for later use as well. And, because this blog is creative commons licensed it is available for non commercial use here. If I for some lucky reason hit someone that would like to use it commercially you can buy a full resolution version for $25,- here.
Okay, back to the presentation.
But this is still not a very good slide. I am going to tell my audience that I will show them four ways to determine the size and importance of a blog. Why print it on my slide? This can be made simpler…
Better, but the illustration practically screams “size” alone. Maybe I should write “influence” instead? Or maybe remove the text completely?
I’ll have to think that one over…
And what are these four tools to determine the size and potential influence of a blog? Well, that will have to be my next article here…
Did you find this interesting? Then you’ll like this. Or, as always – visit Presentation Zen
I’m going to speak at several events during October. I will talk about the future of the broadcast industry and how democratization of technology, distribution and production is changing traditional media.
I will bring up issues like DRM, blogging, user generated content, the long tail and the actual reasons for new technology to fail or succeed.
As far as I know all these presentations will be done in the huge and well known language of Norwegian. In November I will be in Poland speaking for MediaGeniX in english, but I think your best bet if you want to catch up on these issues would be to follow eirikso.com
And, because I listen to what my very cool readers have to say you can even shape my presentations yourself by commenting here as I post on the issues mentioned.
This is some of my presentations for October:
And – yes, I still need to post the rest of the presentation in Bergen this spring… 🙂
I have done a bit of work in PowerPoint lately. And suddenly I realized what would be my two most important tricks for this horrible tool.
Never ever use “Design Template” when you start a new presentation. And I assume that most of my readers know that the “AutoContent Wizard” is the biggest joke since the Microsoft Office Paper Clip Helper, so I guess I don’t have to say that AutoContent is something you never want.
In PowerPoint there is actually only one slide template that can be used. The blank one. All the other ones force you to keep your presentation boring. Be creative, spend the extra time. Start with a clean slate for every new slide. To save time you can use the “Duplicate this slide” function at some points.
Then please have a look at the paper by associate professor Jens E. Kjeldsen on The Rhetoric of PowerPoint. Nicely done with a video presentation and a possibility to download the paper as a PDF. This is nice reading for your commute back home today.
Then you can read about how to avoid making boring presentations, how to make illustrations and as always keep an eye on Presentation Zen.
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