Seth Godin’s Tips For Better Presentations
Oct 8th, 2008 | By Kevin | Category: Featured Posts, How ToIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed with Feedburner. Thanks for visiting!
I was reading through my RSS feeds on Google reader tonight trying to catch up on about a week of neglect and came across a really good post from Seth Godin, creator of the popular site, Squidoo.com.
The post was at the perfect time for me, since I recently renewed my membership on SpeakerMatch.com and plan to start speaking again this fall. The post was nine tips for better presentations.
It reminded me of a book I saw in Barnes and Nobles last month called Presentation Zen. The book talks about creating presentations that have only a single word or impactful graphic on the slide and then the rest of the content is you speaking. The minimal approach to creating slides make a greater impact on your presentation and forces your audience to focus on you, the presenter.
If you ever make presentations, Seth’s post is a must read.
You can check it out here:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/10/nine-steps-to-p.html
If you have any of your own presentation tips, feel free to share them in the comments and remember to link back to your website.
Kevin
Originally from Wisconsin, I moved out to Salt Lake City over ten years ago on a six month software development contract. I now have over 15 years in software development, and was introduced to internet marketing back in 2003. During the wild west days, are business focused on content sites for Adsense revenue. As it became harder and harder to keep up with the search engines, our business has evolved, and forced us to focus on building lists and creating products. We now have a list of about 5000 interested in goal setting, and a small internet marketing list of about 500.
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Presentation Zen is great. To go along with it, I can recommend Slide:ology by Nancy Duarte … her firm was behind Al Gore’s Oscar winning presentation (that sounds weird …). She definitely coordinated her book with Presentation Zen’s Gar Reynolds so the two books compliment each other nicely.
Another sort of related book is Back of the Napkin by Dan Roames. Also excellent for working on visuals for presentations. I’ve got some good pointers to resources related to these two authors on my blog (http://www.fishandcross.com/blog/?tag=presentations).