This document discusses disseminating the results of projects through various presentation methods. It emphasizes that dissemination is essential for sustainability and replication of projects to improve outcomes. Different presentation formats are covered, including formal presentations using aids like audio/visual technology. The APPLE model is presented for structuring presentations around the audience, purpose, language, and evidence. Appreciative inquiry allows sharing hidden aspects of projects. Considerations for publications include tailoring submissions and following sponsor requirements.
2. Introduction
• Dissemination
– Essential to sustainability of the project or
innovation
– Without dissemination, lack of awareness of the
project, which may impact program’s use and
overall outcomes
3. Introduction—cont’d
• Dissemination—cont’d
– Replicating a project: can yield positive results and
serve to integrate findings into system, improving
sustainability
– Dissemination provides a sample or plan as to
how any innovation can be completed
6. Professional Presentations—cont’d
• Audience
– Intended audience: group you are intending to
reach
– Actual audience: individuals who are exposed to
the presentation
– Presenter: prepared to address the audience
(intended or actual) effectively and manage
interaction in order to have a successful
presentation
7. Professional Presentations—cont’d
• Presentation
– Can be oral or written
– May or may not include visual aids
– Planned presentations
– Spontaneous, off-the-cuff sharing of data
– Formal or informal: personal preference and
presentation style as well as venue
8. Professional Presentations—cont’d
• Purpose
– Explicit purpose: stated reason for presentation
– Implicit purpose: what presenter actually hopes to
accomplish
– Presenter’s implicit purpose: shapes presentation
– Can make or break outcome when combined with
consideration of audience and presentation style
9. Professional Presentations—cont’d
• Language
– Level of diction and formality
– Voice and tense
– Objectivity versus self-reference
– Scientific/professional versus lay terminology or
street language
– Evidence or information being conveyed
– Tailoring language to audience and venue
10. Professional Presentations—cont’d
• Engagement
– Maintaining eye contact
– Positive facial expression
– Asking questions and eliciting responses (verbal or
non-verbal)
– Assuring objectives match content
– Abstract or description provided to audience
congruent with actual presentation
– Maintaining a less formal style
11. Professional Presentations—cont’d
• Presentations
– Honoring time constraints
– Group or panel presentations: far more restricted
environment resulting in less opportunity to tailor
presentation to individual speaker
– Visual and/or auditory aids typically included
along with oral components
12. Role of Appreciative Inquiry
in Presentations
• Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
– Co-evolutionary search for the best in people,
their organizations, relevant world around them
– Presentations using AI provide opportunity to
share hidden aspects of a system or a project that
are not obvious to the audience
– Includes art and practice of asking questions
13. Role of Appreciative Inquiry
in Presentations—cont’d
• Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
– Communication of outcomes occurs throughout
entire process of innovation creating transparency
and evidence-based culture
– Requires forethought, flexibility, willingness to
capitalize on differing presentation strengths of
team members, ability to view innovation process
entirely
14. Role of Appreciative Inquiry
in Presentations—cont’d
• Personal Style
– Addresses unique strengths and characteristics
that blend well with different people and
situations at different times
– Matching one’s personal style with intended
audience is critical
15. Role of Appreciative Inquiry
in Presentations
• Personal Style—cont’d
– Personal appearance
– Ease of interacting in different settings
– Vocal qualities (volume, tone, pitch, intonation)
– Personal power
– Habitual and deliberate use of gestures
– Ease of making eye contact
– Ability to listen
– Ability to communicate interest and enthusiasm
– Willingness to accept criticism
16. Publications
• Publication: in-print paper that appears in a
peer-reviewed journal
• Peer-reviewed: level of quality review that
exceeds that performed in non-peer-reviewed
or any other type of publication
• Refereed: as in “contested and emerging
victorious”
• Juried: as in “from a jury of one’s peers”
17. Publications—cont’d
• Professional publications, presentations,
books/chapters, and posters all share some
commonalities in terms of preparation:
– Tailoring submission to audience
– Being aware of sponsor’s requirements and
assuring that they are followed
– Being tolerant of suggestions to improve
• Lay literature teaching tool for general public
18. Social and Informal Presentations
• Social networking (blogs, wikis, email, and
face-to-face sharing): valuable for
disseminating a project
• Written reports: valuable means of sharing
information within a system
• Press releases for television, radio, and
newspaper: valuable tool for sharing
information
19. Pitfalls in Dissemination
• Two major pitfalls with sharing of information:
redundant publication and self-plagiarism
– Self-plagiarism: researcher shares same
information with more than one publication or in
more than one presentation
– Problematic to have subsequent publication or
presentation of the data, even if you are
researcher who discovered the findings
20. Summary
• Dissemination of innovative projects is a
natural progression of any endeavor.
• Project dissemination offers audiences new
knowledge and opens up an exchange of
information.
• Number of forums available for dissemination
of information: journal publications, book
chapters, poster, and podium presentations.
21. Summary—cont’d
• Multiple presentation methods and models are
available; APPLE model widely used by individuals
to prepare presentations.
• Presentations using appreciative inquiry provide
opportunities to share aspects of a system or
project that may not be obvious to the audience.
• Consideration given to where one publishes and
presents findings, who maintains copyright,
which pitfalls of dissemination encountered.
