Presentation Zen: Live

on 04.06.08, 06:31am in media, writing • comments (2)


Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen recently did a talk at Google. If you have to use Powerpoint or Keynote, this is a must watch.

2 Comments

    Art Feldstein (April 7, 2008 @ 4:42 am)

    The problem with this is that most people don’t have the time to sit down and watch a video of a presentation. Slides need to be the handouts that you go back to later and get all of your information. What this guys doesn’t talk about is that all presentations actually need two slide decks. One for the slick talk for the people that have the time to waste and sit in the audience and listen to him speak and those that have 5 minutes to troll through the slides, get as much information overload as possible, get the two or three key points and then move on.

    If you look at Garr’s presentation without him talking, it is absolutely useless. This is the problem with Presentation Zen - Garr, himself, doesn’t get it. Yes, you need to be an eloquent speaker and it should be the person speaking and not the slides doing the talking, but the reality is that only a small percentage of the total that number of people that need the information have the time to see the presenter actually speak.

    smakofs (April 7, 2008 @ 9:12 am)

    Yup - agreed. Presentations like these need to accompany a paper, slides w/ more details, etc.

    In Garr’s case, I’d imagine the takeaway from this is “buy the book”.

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