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Five Funky Presentation Techniques. Combat death by PowerPoint with five novel approaches you can use to shake up your presentations. One. PechaKucha. the art of concise presentations. Get to the point. What is it. PechaKucha translates from Japanese as chatter. Presentations display twenty images or slides for just twenty seconds each six minutes and forty seconds in total. Images change automatically, so timing slides to match the narrative is important. A typical PechaKucha Night includes eight to fourteen presentations. Good for. preventing people from waffling or going off topic when time is of the essence. Find out more about PechaKucha at http://www.pechakucha.org/ Two. Ignite. Make it quick. What is it. Shorter format than PechaKucha. Ignite allows five minutes for the presentation, using twenty slides or images which auto-advance every fifteen seconds. Originated as a way for people to talk about their personal passions or interests. The motto of Ignite is Enlighten us, but make it quick. Good for Academic and corporate presentations, where messages must be conveyed quickly and clearly. Speeches or toasts. Find out more about Ignite at http://igniteshow.com/. Three. Lightning talk. Short and simple. What is it. A Lightning Talk event involves lots of short presentations, typically lasting for five minutes each, delivered back-to-back in a single ninety minute session. Lightning Talks are being increasingly used at conferences and workshops to expose audiences to as many ideas as possible within a short period of time. Formats vary but generally, if slides are used, the speaker must be careful not to just read the details from the slide. Good for. Events that have lots of speakers presenting on a similar topic or theme, if you are short of time but still need to communicate key ideas or concepts. Find out more about Lightning Talks at. http://www.perl.com/pub/2004/07/30/lightningtalk.html. Four. Speed geeking. Fast talking. What is it. Based on speed-dating, it’s a group presentation format which involves lots of short presentations happening in a venue at the same time. Presenters are spread around a room, often at separate tables. The audience is divided into smaller groups, who then circulate round the different presenters. After the allotted time (e.g. four-five minutes), the presentations stop and the groups move round to the next presenter. Good for. Presenting work in progress. Pitching new projects and ideas. Improving presentation skills, people presenting at these events get lots of presenting experience in a short space of time. Learning how to condense key points into easily understandable nuggets of information. Find out more about Speed Geeking at http://www.kstoolkit.org/Speed+geeking. Five. The Takahashi Method, Spread the word. What is it. First developed by a Japanese programmer called Takahashi, this method involves giving a presentation without using any pictures, charts or images. Only words can be used as visual cues and are limited to one or two words per slide using a very large font. More slides are used than in normal presentations, but are shown for less time. Good for People who are not used to giving presentations and are nervous about presenting. enabling your audience to quickly read and understand the material. Find out more about the Takahashi method at, http://presentationzen.blogs/com/presentationzen/2005/09/living_large_ta.html

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