This document provides tips from 31 experts on how to create an effective presentation. It discusses conducting research on the audience and topic, conceptualizing the presentation around a central message or story, structuring the content visually and in an outline, designing the presentation deck with visuals and formatting, and practicing the speech through multiple dry runs. The tips emphasize understanding the audience, defining the key takeaway, using storytelling principles, removing unnecessary content, and rehearsing frequently to improve delivery.
This document provides guidance on working smarter and making the most of one's time. It discusses identifying time wasters and prioritizing tasks. Key steps in planning include planning, action, and review to save time. When planning systematically, one should define the purpose, outcomes, tasks, responsibilities, resources, and deadlines. The document also introduces the POWER method for setting outcomes and a time management matrix to analyze time spent on urgent vs important tasks. Methods are presented for minimizing time thieves, saying no, and using a time matrix to be more proactive.
TICK ACHIEVE 2015 WITH LATEST WORK STATISTICSKevin Duncan
Consolidated stats of what people have to cope with in the world of work, plus suggested remedies from Tick Achieve: How to get stuff done. 6,000 trained so far.
How To Have a Point Of View and Develop a Persuasive Line of ArgumentKevin Duncan
To be effective in business, you need a clear point of view, and a clear line of argument that ensures that people agree with you. This highly popular training scheme and talk uses material from Kevin's books -The Diagrams Book and The Ideas Book - to explain how.
This document provides tips for delivering impactful presentations. It emphasizes that pitches should focus on the audience's needs and interests rather than the presenter. Presentations should have a clear focus, logical flow, and use visual aids to guide the audience. The key is providing the right amount of concise information without overloading the audience. Presenters should show passion and enthusiasm to energize their audience. The document recommends watching several short videos from experts on public speaking and pitching to further improve presentation skills.
Get Featured: So You Want to be on the Front Page of SlideShare?Venngage
After trying to figure out whether or not there is a secret formula for getting featured on the SlideShare homepage, we decided to ask 13 pros who have been featured on multiple occasions. We created this deck to share their insights with you!
Featuring tips from:
Robert Katai
Julius Solaris
Jen Jones
Sandra Jovanovic
Ross Simmonds
Michael Brenner
Joe Gelman
Steve Williamson
Stephen Jeske
Ayesha Ambreen
Josh Steimle
Eugene Cheng
Pamela Pavliscak
Read their full and in depth tips here: https://venngage.com/blog/get-featured-slideshare/
This document provides tips from 31 experts on how to create an effective presentation. It discusses conducting research on the audience and topic, conceptualizing the presentation around a central message or story, structuring the content visually and in an outline, designing the presentation deck with visuals and formatting, and practicing the speech through multiple dry runs. The tips emphasize understanding the audience, defining the key takeaway, using storytelling principles, removing unnecessary content, and rehearsing frequently to improve delivery.
This document provides guidance on working smarter and making the most of one's time. It discusses identifying time wasters and prioritizing tasks. Key steps in planning include planning, action, and review to save time. When planning systematically, one should define the purpose, outcomes, tasks, responsibilities, resources, and deadlines. The document also introduces the POWER method for setting outcomes and a time management matrix to analyze time spent on urgent vs important tasks. Methods are presented for minimizing time thieves, saying no, and using a time matrix to be more proactive.
TICK ACHIEVE 2015 WITH LATEST WORK STATISTICSKevin Duncan
Consolidated stats of what people have to cope with in the world of work, plus suggested remedies from Tick Achieve: How to get stuff done. 6,000 trained so far.
How To Have a Point Of View and Develop a Persuasive Line of ArgumentKevin Duncan
To be effective in business, you need a clear point of view, and a clear line of argument that ensures that people agree with you. This highly popular training scheme and talk uses material from Kevin's books -The Diagrams Book and The Ideas Book - to explain how.
This document provides tips for delivering impactful presentations. It emphasizes that pitches should focus on the audience's needs and interests rather than the presenter. Presentations should have a clear focus, logical flow, and use visual aids to guide the audience. The key is providing the right amount of concise information without overloading the audience. Presenters should show passion and enthusiasm to energize their audience. The document recommends watching several short videos from experts on public speaking and pitching to further improve presentation skills.
Get Featured: So You Want to be on the Front Page of SlideShare?Venngage
After trying to figure out whether or not there is a secret formula for getting featured on the SlideShare homepage, we decided to ask 13 pros who have been featured on multiple occasions. We created this deck to share their insights with you!
Featuring tips from:
Robert Katai
Julius Solaris
Jen Jones
Sandra Jovanovic
Ross Simmonds
Michael Brenner
Joe Gelman
Steve Williamson
Stephen Jeske
Ayesha Ambreen
Josh Steimle
Eugene Cheng
Pamela Pavliscak
Read their full and in depth tips here: https://venngage.com/blog/get-featured-slideshare/
This book review summarizes Jacked Up by Bill Lane, which focuses on how Jack Welch's communication style helped drive culture and results at GE. It provides numerous tips for effective presentations and communication, emphasizing brevity, passion, relevance to the audience, and delivering value. The ideal presentation according to Welch is short, with a few charts, big thoughts, advice, and then questions.
To give a powerful presentation, focus on your main message by ensuring every point leads back to your topic. Use pictures, backgrounds, and animations to engage viewers visually, but keep text short, simple, and on the left side of slides for easy reading. Leave white space on slides to catch the eye and don't include more than two ideas per slide.
The document provides lessons the author learned from starting companies that were not learned from books. It covers fundamentals, tactics, and product lessons.
The key fundamentals are to focus on the most important variables like cash and legal issues. Constraints are self-imposed. Building the right team is most important. Manage emotions around successes and failures.
For tactics, secrecy has limited value while alternatives provide leverage. Follow through, follow up, and make the most of time.
For product, create something addictive people cannot live without. Critique your own work and keep ideas simple at first.
The MTL Professional Development Programme is a collection of 202 PowerPoint presentations that will provide you with step-by-step summaries of a key management or personal development skill. This presentation is on "The Effective Time Manager" and will show you how to manage your tasks efficiently and effectively.
Organizations can't do without meetings but they can't do with too many meetings either. Raise questions about your current meeting process and see if you can make them more efficient!
The document provides tips for making a good impression at a new job or in any workplace interactions. It recommends focusing on conciseness, acknowledging outstanding items, asking for help when needed, taking initiative to learn new skills, and proactively seeking feedback to improve performance. The overall message is that managing perceptions and small interactions can help people view you positively over time.
The document discusses incorporating new technology ideas into work to help work more efficiently and better serve clients, provides tips for using technology like knowing your audience and basic skills, and suggests fun tech tools like LinkedIn, Twitter career coaches, Google Apps, and conference call Bingo to engage with technology. Attendees were asked to discuss frustrations and successes with technology in small groups and share with the larger group.
USING DIAGRAMS TO INSPIRE STAFF AND SHORTEN TRAINING TIMEKevin Duncan
This document discusses using diagrams to inspire staff and shorten training time. It provides various diagram templates to visually explain strategies, such as using a priority matrix to determine tasks that are urgent and important. Additional diagrams outline how to anticipate dips in morale over the year and plan initiatives accordingly. The document advocates using interactive diagrams during training to maximize learning and provides international examples of effective diagram styles.
This document provides information and tips on effective time management. It discusses setting goals using the SMART framework, keeping activity logs to understand how time is spent, managing interruptions, overcoming procrastination, creating action plans, and effective scheduling. The key points are to set specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound goals; understand current time usage; prioritize important over urgent tasks; break large goals into action steps; and schedule time proactively to achieve priorities and goals. Regular review and adjustment of schedules is recommended to manage time effectively.
4 super fast ways to find out the questions your audience are already asking ...Jo Gifford
Knowing what your audience are already asking is key to creating compelling content.
The questions they are asking are already out there, and in this training you will find discover:
- 4 key places to find out questions your peeps are already asking (can I get a HELL YES?!)
- How to use the language your clients are already asking to hit the home run with valuable content they will love (that leads to sales...and not crickets).
- How to implement what you discover without attending Overwhelm Anonymous or needing Xanax laced donuts to cope with the freak out.
Display information clearly and simply without unnecessary images or effects so the audience can easily find and understand the key points. Use keyboard shortcuts to work efficiently and ensure everything is neat and well-organized to demonstrate your command of PowerPoint and allow the audience to focus on the content rather than the presentation style.
The document is a 10-page presentation toolkit from The Jensen Group on creating concise and impactful presentations. It provides tips on structuring presentations around the audience's needs through a Know, Feel, Do framework. The presentation should have a clear goal and summary in the first 1-5 minutes to engage the audience before providing additional details to support the key points. It emphasizes making the presentation relevant to the audience by focusing on how the content affects them and calling them to specific actions.
The document outlines seven habits of effective PowerPoint presentations: 1) start with a structured story, 2) standardize design language, 3) standardize written language, 4) animate to narrate not exaggerate, 5) show with images and tell with voiceover, 6) build slides around transitions, and 7) use a presentation remote. It provides tips and best practices for each habit, including examples of slide design, animation techniques, and effective narration.
The document discusses effective time management, planning, and prioritization. It provides tips for overcoming procrastination, managing meetings and emails, setting priorities, and strategic planning. Some key recommendations include starting the day with important tasks, saying no to unnecessary tasks, having a vision and mission for your work, and understanding that failure is okay if you learn from it.
The document discusses effective time management, planning, and prioritization. It provides tips for overcoming procrastination, managing meetings and emails, setting priorities, and strategic planning. Some key recommendations include starting the day with important tasks, saying no to unnecessary tasks, having a vision and mission for your work, and understanding that failure is okay if you learn from it.
Consulting to Product Management - How to Make a Successful TransitionProduct School
Jordan discussed the transition from Consulting into Product Management. He walked through the key consulting skills that transfer across and those that don't, as well as unexpected areas that will require a steep learning curve. Based on his experience and lessons learned, Jordan provided insights on how to make this transition as frictionless as possible.
3-5 Main Points / Key Takeaways:
Some consulting skills are important and transferable: analytics, logical presentation of information, communication/presentations
Many consulting norms and behaviors must be thrown out the window: politics, powerpoints, attitude
There will be a learning curve both in culture and in how to spend your time
The document provides 10 timeless productivity hacks that will make you more productive. Some of the key hacks include: defining your most important tasks each day; focusing on one task at a time instead of multitasking; creating a morning routine; limiting distractions like social media; prioritizing important work; batching similar tasks; eliminating unnecessary tasks; and doing the task you are most likely to procrastinate first. Following these simple habits can improve overall productivity without needing a complex system.
Great Talks Start with Great Proposals: An IA Summit Virtual WebinarRuss U
This document summarizes a webinar about brainstorming ideas and writing proposals for conference presentations. The webinar covers brainstorming big ideas, writing titles and abstracts for proposals, and the proposal review process. Attendees are guided through exercises to come up with potential presentation topics and ideas within time limits. The composition of a successful proposal is outlined, including writing an engaging title, detailing the presentation in the abstract, and including a bio. Common questions about the blind review and selection process are also addressed.
Work Hard. Play Hard. Ideas on getting stuff done.Beata Wickbom
Beata , a freelance idea creative, shares some of her ideas on how to be more productive, have more fun, see your kids more and sleep longer in the morning. In short be human and get stuff done! Part of Microsoft Breakout session "Work Like a Network" at SIME2014 in Stockholm Nov 2014.
Πως θα στοχεύσετε το κοινό σας μέσα από την διαφήμιση στο διαδίκτυο (Social Media & Google Adwords) για μεγαλύτερη αποδοτικότητα και αποτελεσματικότητα
This book review summarizes Jacked Up by Bill Lane, which focuses on how Jack Welch's communication style helped drive culture and results at GE. It provides numerous tips for effective presentations and communication, emphasizing brevity, passion, relevance to the audience, and delivering value. The ideal presentation according to Welch is short, with a few charts, big thoughts, advice, and then questions.
To give a powerful presentation, focus on your main message by ensuring every point leads back to your topic. Use pictures, backgrounds, and animations to engage viewers visually, but keep text short, simple, and on the left side of slides for easy reading. Leave white space on slides to catch the eye and don't include more than two ideas per slide.
The document provides lessons the author learned from starting companies that were not learned from books. It covers fundamentals, tactics, and product lessons.
The key fundamentals are to focus on the most important variables like cash and legal issues. Constraints are self-imposed. Building the right team is most important. Manage emotions around successes and failures.
For tactics, secrecy has limited value while alternatives provide leverage. Follow through, follow up, and make the most of time.
For product, create something addictive people cannot live without. Critique your own work and keep ideas simple at first.
The MTL Professional Development Programme is a collection of 202 PowerPoint presentations that will provide you with step-by-step summaries of a key management or personal development skill. This presentation is on "The Effective Time Manager" and will show you how to manage your tasks efficiently and effectively.
Organizations can't do without meetings but they can't do with too many meetings either. Raise questions about your current meeting process and see if you can make them more efficient!
The document provides tips for making a good impression at a new job or in any workplace interactions. It recommends focusing on conciseness, acknowledging outstanding items, asking for help when needed, taking initiative to learn new skills, and proactively seeking feedback to improve performance. The overall message is that managing perceptions and small interactions can help people view you positively over time.
The document discusses incorporating new technology ideas into work to help work more efficiently and better serve clients, provides tips for using technology like knowing your audience and basic skills, and suggests fun tech tools like LinkedIn, Twitter career coaches, Google Apps, and conference call Bingo to engage with technology. Attendees were asked to discuss frustrations and successes with technology in small groups and share with the larger group.
USING DIAGRAMS TO INSPIRE STAFF AND SHORTEN TRAINING TIMEKevin Duncan
This document discusses using diagrams to inspire staff and shorten training time. It provides various diagram templates to visually explain strategies, such as using a priority matrix to determine tasks that are urgent and important. Additional diagrams outline how to anticipate dips in morale over the year and plan initiatives accordingly. The document advocates using interactive diagrams during training to maximize learning and provides international examples of effective diagram styles.
This document provides information and tips on effective time management. It discusses setting goals using the SMART framework, keeping activity logs to understand how time is spent, managing interruptions, overcoming procrastination, creating action plans, and effective scheduling. The key points are to set specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound goals; understand current time usage; prioritize important over urgent tasks; break large goals into action steps; and schedule time proactively to achieve priorities and goals. Regular review and adjustment of schedules is recommended to manage time effectively.
4 super fast ways to find out the questions your audience are already asking ...Jo Gifford
Knowing what your audience are already asking is key to creating compelling content.
The questions they are asking are already out there, and in this training you will find discover:
- 4 key places to find out questions your peeps are already asking (can I get a HELL YES?!)
- How to use the language your clients are already asking to hit the home run with valuable content they will love (that leads to sales...and not crickets).
- How to implement what you discover without attending Overwhelm Anonymous or needing Xanax laced donuts to cope with the freak out.
Display information clearly and simply without unnecessary images or effects so the audience can easily find and understand the key points. Use keyboard shortcuts to work efficiently and ensure everything is neat and well-organized to demonstrate your command of PowerPoint and allow the audience to focus on the content rather than the presentation style.
The document is a 10-page presentation toolkit from The Jensen Group on creating concise and impactful presentations. It provides tips on structuring presentations around the audience's needs through a Know, Feel, Do framework. The presentation should have a clear goal and summary in the first 1-5 minutes to engage the audience before providing additional details to support the key points. It emphasizes making the presentation relevant to the audience by focusing on how the content affects them and calling them to specific actions.
The document outlines seven habits of effective PowerPoint presentations: 1) start with a structured story, 2) standardize design language, 3) standardize written language, 4) animate to narrate not exaggerate, 5) show with images and tell with voiceover, 6) build slides around transitions, and 7) use a presentation remote. It provides tips and best practices for each habit, including examples of slide design, animation techniques, and effective narration.
The document discusses effective time management, planning, and prioritization. It provides tips for overcoming procrastination, managing meetings and emails, setting priorities, and strategic planning. Some key recommendations include starting the day with important tasks, saying no to unnecessary tasks, having a vision and mission for your work, and understanding that failure is okay if you learn from it.
The document discusses effective time management, planning, and prioritization. It provides tips for overcoming procrastination, managing meetings and emails, setting priorities, and strategic planning. Some key recommendations include starting the day with important tasks, saying no to unnecessary tasks, having a vision and mission for your work, and understanding that failure is okay if you learn from it.
Consulting to Product Management - How to Make a Successful TransitionProduct School
Jordan discussed the transition from Consulting into Product Management. He walked through the key consulting skills that transfer across and those that don't, as well as unexpected areas that will require a steep learning curve. Based on his experience and lessons learned, Jordan provided insights on how to make this transition as frictionless as possible.
3-5 Main Points / Key Takeaways:
Some consulting skills are important and transferable: analytics, logical presentation of information, communication/presentations
Many consulting norms and behaviors must be thrown out the window: politics, powerpoints, attitude
There will be a learning curve both in culture and in how to spend your time
The document provides 10 timeless productivity hacks that will make you more productive. Some of the key hacks include: defining your most important tasks each day; focusing on one task at a time instead of multitasking; creating a morning routine; limiting distractions like social media; prioritizing important work; batching similar tasks; eliminating unnecessary tasks; and doing the task you are most likely to procrastinate first. Following these simple habits can improve overall productivity without needing a complex system.
Great Talks Start with Great Proposals: An IA Summit Virtual WebinarRuss U
This document summarizes a webinar about brainstorming ideas and writing proposals for conference presentations. The webinar covers brainstorming big ideas, writing titles and abstracts for proposals, and the proposal review process. Attendees are guided through exercises to come up with potential presentation topics and ideas within time limits. The composition of a successful proposal is outlined, including writing an engaging title, detailing the presentation in the abstract, and including a bio. Common questions about the blind review and selection process are also addressed.
Work Hard. Play Hard. Ideas on getting stuff done.Beata Wickbom
Beata , a freelance idea creative, shares some of her ideas on how to be more productive, have more fun, see your kids more and sleep longer in the morning. In short be human and get stuff done! Part of Microsoft Breakout session "Work Like a Network" at SIME2014 in Stockholm Nov 2014.
Πως θα στοχεύσετε το κοινό σας μέσα από την διαφήμιση στο διαδίκτυο (Social Media & Google Adwords) για μεγαλύτερη αποδοτικότητα και αποτελεσματικότητα
This document profiles Dr. Alaa Garad, who holds positions as Chair of the Advisory Board at the University of Salford UAE and CEO of Investors in People UAE. It discusses organizational learning at three levels - individual, team, and organizational. At the individual level, it describes learning techniques like coaching, mentoring, reflection, and cross-training. At the team level, it discusses after-action reviews, problem solving teams, and learning circles. And at the organizational level, techniques covered include quality awards, benchmarking, suggestion systems, self-assessment, feedback loops, and audits. It emphasizes that learning is essential for organizational success and survival.
Forward Progress - Digital Marketing for Community BanksSocial Jack
Forward Progress has a unique program for community banks, we setup the plan, build community, manage events, drive traffic and leads. We have a select program especially for our business bankers who want to reach the very busy business owners of the world. If you are ready for the next level of digital marketing for banks, call us! 877-592-6224
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Machine Learning Stockholm Meetup
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Primary health care & concept of man.ppt2Doc Lorie B
The document discusses the concept of man and how understanding human needs and attributes is essential for providing quality primary health care. It outlines 4 attributes that define human beings: the ability to think abstractly, form families, seek territory, and use language. It also lists 14 fundamental human needs including breathing, eating, eliminating, sleeping, and communicating. The document further discusses Maslow's hierarchy of needs and characteristics of self-actualized individuals to provide context for understanding human nature and properly addressing health needs.
Linkedin est un formidable outil de référencement naturel. Vous voulez mettre en valeur vos compétences, capter des prospects pour votre business ou rechercher un point de vue d’experts ? Exploitez à fond l’outil ! En plus c’est gratuit !
This document appears to be a portfolio or resume for an individual named Kirti Agarwal Rungta. It includes sections about her education, past work experiences, skills, interests, style and tone of writing, and blogs she follows. It then discusses her working format for content marketing and content creation projects, including gathering information about clients, defining the content, and optimizing the content. It provides an example of content created for a client called Deck Rooster about improving sales presentations for emails.
The document provides guidelines for pitching a startup company or product. It emphasizes that pitches should excite and inspire the audience rather than educate them. Pitches should tell a clear story about solving a problem and showcase the unique value and competitive advantage of the solution. Presentations should be simple, memorable, and focus on the key benefits for customers rather than technical details. Effective pitches engage the audience and create a vision for how the company or product can succeed.
This document discusses what a pitch is, the different types of pitches, and how to structure and prepare an effective pitch. A pitch is a brief presentation used to sell an idea to investors, partners or customers. There are one-sentence pitches, elevator pitches, and pitch decks. An effective pitch structure includes introducing the problem, solution, business model, team and call to action. The document also summarizes the Disney creative strategy and Business Model Canvas frameworks for generating and evaluating ideas in a concise pitch.
During the Define stage, you put together the information you have created and gathered during the Empathise stage. This is where you will analyse your observations and synthesise them in order to define the core problems that you and your team have identified up to this point. You should seek to define the problem as a problem statement in a human-centred manner.
Data science + design thinking a perfect blend to achieve the best user expe...Michael Radwin
As data scientists, we invest much of our time on the business problem, the data, the statistics, the algorithm, and the model. But we can’t afford to overlook one very important component: the customer. A great AI and ML model with a poorly designed user experience is ultimately is going to fail. The world’s best data products are born from a perfect blend of data science and amazing user experience. Design thinking is a methodology for creative problem solving developed at the Stanford d.school and is used by world-class design firms like IDEO and many of the world’s leading brands like Apple, Google, Samsung, and GE.
Michael Radwin prepares a recipe for applying design thinking to the development of AI/ML products. You’ll discover deep customer empathy and fall in love with the customer’s problem (not the team’s solution), and you’ll learn to go broad and narrow, focusing on what matters most to customers. Michael shows you how to get customers involved in the development process by running rapid experiments and quick prototypes. These lessons blending data science and design thinking can be applied to products that leverage supervised and unsupervised machine learning models, as well as “old-school” AI expert systems.
What you'll learn
Discover deep customer empathy for the customer’s problem (not the team’s solution)
Learn to go broad and narrow, focusing on what matters most to customers and how to get customers involved in the development process by running rapid experiments and quick prototypes
Personal project to do by september 12thChristinaHoe
1. The document provides instructions for students to complete their personal project proposal in ManageBac by September 12th. This includes entering a topic, goal, global context, and inquiry questions.
2. Students are instructed to complete three process journal entries by the deadline: the first on prior knowledge and reasoning for their project topic, the second on their planning process, and the third brainstorming potential products/outcomes and evaluation criteria.
3. The first meeting with a supervisor will be on September 12th to determine the project product/outcome. Students are provided examples and guidance for completing all components of the personal project proposal.
1. yes the SmartArt tool is certainly an option that you can use t.docxjeremylockett77
1. yes the SmartArt tool is certainly an option that you can use to your advantage. Be advised that customizing SmartArt can be a challenge for the new PowerPoint user. Did you find that the graphic diagrams worked well initially or required some additional modifications?
2. Great post! I also utilized the Smartart/ Wordart feature on powerpoint. It helped my slogan pop out of my presentation and gave the audience something to remember about my product. I agree, it helps make the presentation visually appealing which is an important aspect to all professional presentations, especially those targeted to an audience. It captures attention which should be given to the important points which wont be done if the information is presented in plain text. Although,I do think too much WordArt can make the presentation look tacky, so on that note, I like to keep it for the most important factors!
3. i think its very important to make sure that there is a flow in you presentation. that it must look appealing and catch the readers attention. To much going on in a slide will not deliver your message in a professional way. when i didn't my presentation, i believe in the term "less is more". Even though i did put images, shapes,colors, etc. i made sure to blend them well enough to look presentable and still believer the message.
4. Powerpoint is an important tool when it comes to making a presentation to captivate your audience. Personally, I would say an essential for a professional layout would be to keep pictures on one side of the slide and words on the other. This option can be found under the "Slides" option and you can select the slide that offers two columns of information except one. In one column there would be a picture and in the other there would be words. For example, I used the technique in my Unit 2 assignment. I had my product picture on one side and a description of it on the side. In that manner, I was able to showcase my product and its features without there being too many pictures and words crowded on screen. This kept everything organized so if someone were to come across it, there would know what its for and what its about.
Another tool I use is Word Art for slogans that are important to the product or service I am showcasing to an audience. That keeps that attend to what the product is and about; also it keeps the audience engaged on your presentation and gives them something catchy to leave with. I utilized this tool in my assignment as well to make the slogan of my product pop.
5. I think the most essential and proffesional layout for Microsoft PowerPoint is the use of pictures and smart art. It catches the viewers attention and keeps them interested while listening to the presentation and also looking at the pictures of what the presentation is based on. The presentation may be boring but by using pictures and smart art it keeps the audience interested and connected to the slideshow. Yes I used pictures in my ...
Held in conjunction with World IA Day 2018, this practical session was an introduction to the core skills and methods of thinking that you will use as part of your day to day work in IA.
Topics covered include the foundations of IA, the importance of a ‘content first’ approach, thinking like a user and how to present your work to clients.
The session was led by Jon Fisher, Head of UX at Nomensa, an award-winning UX design agency based in London, Bristol and Amsterdam.
Held in conjunction with World IA Day 2018, this practical session was an introduction to the core skills and methods of thinking that you can use as part of your day to day work in IA.
Topics covered included the foundations of IA, the importance of a ‘content first’ approach, thinking like a user and how to present your work to clients.
The session was led by Jon Fisher, Head of UX at Nomensa, an award-winning UX design agency based in London, Bristol and Amsterdam.
This is a free event recommended for those new to IA or looking for a refresher on fundamentals.
Following the event, Nomensa will be providing pizza and beers for delegates to enjoy and continue networking.
If you register, but are unable to attend, please give us 48 hours notice so we can reallocate your place.
The document provides tips for creating effective PowerPoint presentations and reading decks. It distinguishes between presentation decks, which are used to complement an oral presentation, and reading decks, which are sent for others to read on their own. Key recommendations include keeping presentation decks concise with 4-5 key points, engaging graphics, and interactivity; and using consistent formatting and voice in all decks. The document emphasizes that decks should support clear communication goals rather than just organizing information.
Fast, Cheap, and Good: The Small Business Guide to Content CreationPure Chat
You want it all. Of course you do! When it comes to creating content as a small business owner, you don't have all the money or time in the world. We get it. In this guide, we cover everything you need to know to create fast, cheap and good content.
This document outlines a 5-step process for boosting a company's talent brand through content marketing. The 5 steps are: 1) Plan - define audiences and build a content calendar, 2) Develop content - curate existing content and create original content such as blog posts, videos and presentations, 3) Share content - publish content on various social media platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook at peak times, 4) Amplify - promote content through sharing, commenting and responding to build engagement, and 5) Measure and adjust - track performance to optimize future content strategies. The document provides examples and recommendations for each step.
5 Steps to Boosting Your Talent Brand Through ContentColin Frankland
The document outlines a 5-step process for boosting a company's talent brand through content marketing: 1) Plan by defining the target audience and creating a content calendar, 2) Develop content by curating existing materials and creating original content such as blog posts, presentations, and infographics, 3) Share the content on social media and other channels, 4) Amplify the content through social sharing and other strategies, 5) Measure the results and adjust the strategy based on what performs best. It provides examples of effective content types and topics that showcase a company's culture and thought leadership.
PCC2 - How do I incorporate Apple-like design into my products?ProductCamp Chicago
The document discusses how to incorporate Apple-like design principles into products through an agile process called inception. It recommends conducting inception workshops to understand user needs, define personas, map tasks and stories, and create high-level designs in a collaborative and time-boxed manner. The goal is to focus on desirability and get feedback early without large upfront designs, in order to develop products that are simple, useful and delightful for users.
This document provides an overview of creating slide presentations. It discusses how people are inherently visual communicators and how effective communication is important for careers. While schools often don't teach visual design skills, presentations have become a common way to communicate. The document recommends treating slides as a way to enhance communication, not be the sole communication. It provides tips for sketching ideas, creating diagrams, displaying data simply, and thinking like a designer when creating slides. A case study highlights how Al Gore transformed his public image and communication through an engaging slide presentation about climate change. In the end, the document stresses the importance of unity in slide design through using a consistent grid structure.
"A scenario is a description of a person’s interaction with a system.
Scenarios help focus design efforts on the user’s requirements, which are distinct from technical or business requirements.
Scenarios may be related to ‘use cases’, which describe interactions at a technical level. Unlike use cases, however, scenarios can be understood by people who do not have any technical background. They are therefore suitable for use during participatory design activities." http://infodesign.com.au/usabilityresources/scenarios/
An expert in prompt engineering provides guidelines on designing effective prompts for natural language models. The document discusses prompt engineering principles, what makes a good prompt, and various prompt frameworks including priming, focused prompts, and practical everyday prompts. Effective prompts are clear, concise, unambiguous, and provide the necessary context and task to generate a desired response from a model. Iteration and adapting the prompt based on the response is important.
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Technology Creatively Captured in Words
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Six Simple Steps to Writing Effectively in a Hurry
Step 1. Don’t panic
You’ll get it done. You always do. Get into it, and your creativity will
come to you.
Step 2. Analyze your audience
Invest five minutes to put yourself in your audience’s shoes. Know
what makes your audience “tick” by asking yourself (or a couple of
readers), just two or three questions:
What are their “pain points”? What issues bother them? Educational level?
Technical skill?
What is the purpose of your message? To raise awareness? Train? Persuade?
Anything else?
What is the action you want them to take after reading your content? Is
there a concrete business outcome you want to see happen?
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Six Simple Steps to Writing Effectively in a Hurry
Step 3. Research efficiently
Quickly track down information from resources such as:
People – Call, email or drop by your closest subject matter expert
(SME)
Social media – Pose your question on forums and business
networks such as LinkedIn
Internet – Google your topic’s main keyword for current material;
or download an e-book, e-course, or webinar from a specialist
Your files – Review previous drafts, project briefs, white papers,
presentations, brochures, and pamphlets
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Step 4. Brainstorm and plan
This is the fun part. By now, your creative ideas are ready to come out:
Turn off your internal censor and critic.
Jot down your thoughts and ideas without editing, as they come to your mind.
Create a mind map. It’s a very powerful brainstorming tool. A mind map is a
diagram that represents how your ideas relate. It helps you organize your ideas,
prioritize content, and structure your writing.
Creating a mind map is as easy as A, B, C:
A. Put your main idea in the middle of a bubble or egg shape.
B. Create as many connections as you can to the main idea.
C. Create further connections to the subordinate ideas.
You can use your mind map’s ideas as navigational aids for web content,
an outline of an article, or the table of contents of a report.
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Six Simple Steps to Writing Effectively in a Hurry
Step 5. Develop and organize
You can organize your content as you go, but you may find it easier to
develop the content first and then organize it.
As you organize your content:
Identify the information types. Types you’ll probably have include a list,
procedure, process and concept. “Information typing” helps you present
content effectively so your audience understands what it is, and what it
means, quickly and easily. For example, your audience would understand a
procedure more easily if you present it as numbered steps.
Remember, a picture tells a thousand words. If you’re explaining a complex
concept or process, your audience would understand it more quickly if you
illustrate it as a flowchart, screen capture, or diagram.
Group related chunks of information into headings.
Group related headings into chapters, if this is a long document.
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Step 6. Finalize it all
By this stage, the clock is usually ticking down and you’re very alert, excited; almost
there… (at least, that’s the positive way to label anxiety!)
Edit your content before sending or posting it. You’ll thank yourself a hundred times.
Here’s a quick guide to editing it thoroughly, but fast!
Perform what I call a “sanity check” on:
Headings (review table of contents)
Headers and footers (on long documents) and navigational aids (in web content)
Captions (on screen captures, diagrams and tables)
Pagination and numbering (of procedures, headings, tables, and captions)
Other places where you absolutely do not want to make a mistake: title, date, company name…
Carefully reread the content; if possible, read it out loud. Check for:
Typos not caught by spell check
Wordiness (clear copy editors remove excessive words to clarify the point)
Punctuation
Finally, does your tone match your audience?
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Finally…
Step 7: Save Precious Time
If time is of the essence, you can take a seventh step – outsource that task to me.
Giselle Conyette
Director, Con-Yet Incorporated
Technology Creatively Captured in Words
Email conyette@sympatico.ca
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About the Author
As a technical communicator, Giselle Conyette helps companies creatively
capture technology products in words.
She provides over 13 years of experience in high-quality research,
interviewing, and writing on technologies for clients in various industries
such as health care, semi-conductor manufacturing, telecommunications,
government, banking, and energy.
Clients rely on the writing they outsource to Giselle because they
consistently receive a complete and reliable product back; content is
written clearly, easy to understand, and accurate; and confidentiality is
upheld.
Want to learn more? Here’s how you can contact Giselle:
Giselle Conyette
Director, Con-Yet Incorporated
Technology Creatively Captured in Words
Email conyette@sympatico.ca
LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/giselleconyette
Blog http://giselleconyette.typepad.com/