10:41 – I’m here for the end of this. Great breakfast at Cisco’s and the Louis Gray panel at the Hilton was oversubscribed. They’re talking about effective PowerPoint, and if rapid fire visuals are the right away to go.
10:42 – The listing / bulletpoint approach does not hold a candle to the storytelling approach in presentations.
10:51 – They did a yoga exercise– touch your toes. Okay….
10:51 – “Don’t make a better presentation on X… make a user better on X…”
10:52 – Lawyer presenter: I have failed when audience goes into “Blackberry prayer mode.” If you are engaging with social networks instead of the panel you aren’t learning. Other panelist says notetaking OK (like I am now). General question is if backchannels are okay.
10:54 – Kathy Sierra likes backchannels. Live-tweeting ok. If people want to have a conversation about a panel, fine.
10:56 – PowerPoint is a bad word processor. Tap into popular culture. Plays a Star Wars themed slide.
10:56 – Slide: “Also, puppies.” Does every slide have a pulse? -Sierra. Displays cute puppy slide.
10:57 – Tip: Figure out your three most important points and build everything around it.
10:59 – Questioner: How do you deal with rigid cultures, like NIH, in which all presentations have to have heavy science? A: Have to educate internally that what you’re doing has no basis in research.