Presenting With Visuals

I'm a big fan of this style of presenting. It's the only way I can present.  I hate text and bullet points.  What I am looking for now is the best advice on the accompanying verbal delivery.   I've seen different styles -- the visual as a jumping off point for talking points or a story.   This style implied here is actually telling the story with a series of visual - so you move through the slides faster - and then perhaps make your points. Or is this style intended to be a stand alone on the web self-tutorial almost? Speaking of presentations, I just fooled around with Google Presentations.   You can find it as another option on Google Documents.  It's limited because you can only import 10 MB file and if you're using a rich visual style that's a limit.  However, the potential to collaborate more easily - than attaching a powerpoint to email or downloading from  SlideShare is exciting.   Of course

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[Rowan Manahan]

Hi Beth,

Glad you liked the piece. It's pretty much a stand-alone, enlarged a little for dropping onto Slideshare. As such the (I hope) simple ideas espoused in it are easily followed by the reader.

When I am delivering this piece to an audience, it's not 128 slides long, because almost all the verbal slides are delivered over the visuals - as I've put them down here, they are a succinct version of what I say when I deliver this talk.

I hope in yours and my lifetime, we will see the end of the headline, bullet, bullet, bullet slide; but I think it is unlikely. Putting together a largely visual piece like this requires a lot of time, and since you can rarely get exactly the image you want, some ability with photo editing. As such, most people who have to do a lot of presenting on the job shy away from it. Pity.

Rowan