Better Presentations

I’ve often sat through a number of PowerPoint presentations which were extremely dull and boring. I wish that more than just bullet points were made, but that’s essentially all there was. The visual medium has so much more potential. We should all make some changes to the way presentations are made.

My idea of a star presenter is Steve Jobs. I love to watch his keynotes as soon as they’re released because he always does an amazing speaking job. In addition, he makes great use of visuals, with simple slides containing only vital info, such as a key comparison, photo, phrase, or even just a single word.

Manual Viloria tipped me off to a presentation by Hans Rosling, about graphing publicly-funded data to see things such as the relationship between health and wealth, and the distribution of these between the western world, third-world countries, and across different countries and regions.

It’s truly an excellent presentation, but it’s even more extreme and unusual than I expected. Something more along the lines of Steve Jobs is preferable to me. For another take on presentations, see Marco Montemagno’s Myths about the Internet and Web 2.0 Opportunities. It’s Italian with English subtitles.