Comments on: Video Q&A’s with Zen-master Garr Reynolds

By: Zack Grossbart

Zack Grossbart — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:09:46 +0000

These videos came out really well. I’m curious what kind of camera you used. Did you have special microphones or lights?

By: Mark Gardner

Mark Gardner — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:07:35 +0000

Fascinating videos and as a fan of both books I really enjoyed them.

I am responsible for Company induction slides – how would you categorise this type of presentation and the type of slides it requires?

By: gary bass

gary bass — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:50:10 +0000

Great insights.
thanks for that, hopefully a regular ‘thing’..

What are the chances of either or both of you getting to Australia?? Melbourne …
What would it take?? I note Garr was in New Zealand recently for master classes..always a chance!

By: Mike Fladlien

Mike Fladlien — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:05:00 +0000

My comment might be lame, but I really needed to hear your content. When I present to large audiences, I have to be able to read and respect my message and adapt my presentation to meet their needs. Thanks so much.

By: gregg gullickson

gregg gullickson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:24:31 +0000

You’re right – your humanity came through on the video and that made me interested in what you were sharing. Thanks – both of you make learning about presenting fun.

By: Julie Kertesz

Julie Kertesz — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:46:41 +0000

I was happy to look at your discussion, but I just finished today Garr’s wonderful book: it is so much more about in it, like storytelling, and design, etc!

I did learn so many different things from it!
More, a lot more from this discussion video.

By: Art Johnson

Art Johnson — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:09:16 +0000

It’s a real delight seeing two of my favorites exchangng ideas like this. Even though I’m in sales we often have the same problem that scientists have with data-laden slides. It’s a losing battle getting slides like this removed from the deck so I suggested a method of showing the eye chart for “context” and then doing a zoom-in to whatever the take-away is in the chart. This method satisfies the need that folks seem to have for dumping everything they know about a subject on a single slide, but quickly moves to the one message that needs to be extracted.

By: Nancy Duarte

Nancy Duarte — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:22:23 +0000

Nice banter here folks! Here’s some feedback:

@daan Your points are well taken. We’ve been working for a while at developing best practices for the science community. The format is mostly reliant on the audience. If the audience is full of peers that work on very similar projects, the presentations can have more dense scientific content. But, if a scientist is presenting to potential investors for a company, that’s a different ball game. We just worked with a wonderful scientist at Stanford who won millions of dollars from a presentation he gave. I’m hoping to interview him on the blog (I just e-mailed him to see if he’s game). We’re hoping to provide more insights into technical, scientific and financial presentations.

@David Smith I have no idea how it was recorded (it sure is nice to be the queen). We had it hard-wired into the video camera and then ran it through a couple audio cleaners before posting it

@naveen we call it a slide summary (similar to an executive summary in a business plan). I just searched and realized that I’ve never posted that process. I’ll do so in the next couple weeks for you.

@samuli I actually work that way. I put everything I need to know on the slide and then after rehearsing, begin to pull content into the notes.

@sam niiiice link. Thanks

@christian I think you’re right. We should have clarified that if someone is sharing research with peers, they can create a slideument and distribute it as a slideument and then discuss it together. I’m going to try to interview a scientist from Stanford who did a remarkable job and got funding because he re-crafted the language in his presentation to resonate with the judges. Thanks for your enthusiasm and patience as we work as a community to establish best-practices.

Hats off to you all!

Nancy

By: Dan Murray

Dan Murray — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:32:33 +0000

I’ve read both of your books and was fortunate to meet Garr at the Tableau User Conference in July.

I think you’ve both contributed quite a bit to my understanding (and enjoyment) of public speaking. The feedback I receive now with comments like (you seem so natural…nice slides, did you do those?) can be directly attributed to the influence both of your books had on me.

Many Thanks!

By: Joe Oviedo

Joe Oviedo — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:41:41 +0000

OMG! Im such a fan guys! Thank you so much for sharing this, love your great vibe and your friendliness to the subject. I have to get me to one of those Duarte Seminars, I´ll start saving. Take care!