Comments on: Please don’t read this book

By: WebTechMan

WebTechMan — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:09:29 +0000

Nice post about presentations! You can also see this Zen style of presentation by Seth Godin during his TED Talks. Presentations packed with bullets & text make me want to jam a pencil in my eye.

I love the presentationZen book! A quick look at the forward by Guy Kawasaki is enlightening within it self.

Thanks for sharing,
Dan

By: David Farbey

David Farbey — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:19:10 +0000

You’re quite right, Gordon – a good presentation cannot possibly be condensed into a series of slides. Or to put it another way, if a series of slides is a good substitute for seeing the presentation, then the presentation itself cannot have been that good to watch in the first place.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:30:44 +0000

I was influenced by the ‘Zen’ approach (the blog mainly, never read the book).

One thing it does mean is that it might require a better set of notes to be made available as the slides end up being almost meaningless at times. I posted my slides AND my notes for my TCUK09 presentation for just that very reason.

Neither the slides, nor just the notes, go close to what my presentation was actually like, as the delivery is important but hopefully it’s a better takeaway for attendees than just a lot of almost blank slides. If you attended the session that Chris Atherton did you’ll know why!