Comments on: Interacting with Slides

By: Muneeb ali

Muneeb ali — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:12:52 +0000

This is not a comment on just this post, rather a more general note. This blog is awesome!

By: ade

ade — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:59:30 +0000

How I wish a lot more presenters can learn and implement all the techniques being presented on this blog. It’ll really make a lot of meeting, seminar etc worth the time and effort we make to attend.

By: denise cox

denise cox — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:37:45 +0000

signed up.. thanks.

By: Sixtus

Sixtus — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:32:44 +0000

For those of you who have clicked through to our site and been unable to subscribe to our feedburner feed… we apologize. The glitch is fixed, and you can now subscribe.

And, from all of us at Power Presentations, thank you Nancy for your support and continued friendship.

By: Doug Neff

Doug Neff — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:40:43 +0000

Hi Denise,

Thanks for letting us know. We’ll get the right info from Jerry and make the correction soon.

-Doug

By: denise cox

denise cox — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:25:53 +0000

hi, just want to mention that I went to jerry’s blog to sign up for it.. and neither the subscribe by email or by rss feed is working – in case anyone from duarte design reads this.

By: Todd Chandler

Todd Chandler — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:32:59 +0000

Slide:ology is a great resource. I pulled the book out yesterday to look for ideas on visual models. It has some great examples. Thanks for calling out the power of the pause.

By: Olivia Mitchell

Olivia Mitchell — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:21:23 +0000

I agree with pausing when you click onto a new slide to allow the audience to take it in. But if you keep looking at the slide – then you’ll miss important visual cues to guide you when to start talking again. So I would suggest that you look at the slide momentarily (this is a visual cue to the audience to indicate that they should look at it) and then look back at the audience and monitor where they’re looking. When they’ve stopped processing the slide, they’ll return their gaze to you. When about 50-70% of the audience is looking back at you, that’s the best time to start talking again. Olivia

By: Trevor Black

Trevor Black — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:48:43 +0000

While I agree 100% that many people speak far too fast when presenting, and using more pauses, breathing properly, relaxing and speaking in a conversational tone (see Ken Robinson’s TED presentation) makes the world of difference, I am not so sure about the stopping and looking at the slide with a pause every time you change a slide. Reynolds and Godin both suggest that you shouldn’t even look at your slides. I agree that if it is a technical slide that needs time to sink in… maybe your suggestion helps.

Maybe as a technique for people who genuinely struggle to slow down, it can force them… but once you learn to control your speed I am not so sure.

And you are right, it is a great book.

By: Travis Dahle

Travis Dahle — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:26:07 +0000

I like the idea of stopping…sometimes speakers are talking too fast as it is and I try to get them to slow down and this is a great way for them to take a breath and slow down. Great suggestion!