Australia’s leading Presentation Agency, Presentation Studio are proud to launch our

½ DAY Presentation Workshop with Dr Louise Mahler.

In this half day workshop with Louise you will learn through a series of fun and interactive exercises,
how to develop presentations that will engage your audience.

Our creative workshop shows you and your team how to:

• Identify and connect with your audience
• What’s the core idea? [Messaging]
• Develop the Structure [Storyboard]
• Analyse your strategies for sound

Download this PDF for more information.

You can checkout Dr Louise Mahler in <ACTION> at Ignite Sydney.

Tuesday October 12th – 12.30 – 5.30pm

Introductory Special $625 per person

Call now on 1300 699 609 to book your place or email workshop@presentationstudio.com.au

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We are so excited… Our very own Dr Louise Mahler is now on YouTube!

You can see Louise in action at Ignite Sydney – imagine If you had 5 minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds?

Check out what Louise said here:

Presentation Studios public workshops with Louise are running from October 12 – so watch this space for more information.

Or visit us at: www.presentationstudio.com.au or email workshop@presentationstudio.com.au and we will email you hot off the press!!!

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As with many things in life, the old sayings K.I.S.S. and “less is more” are core philosophies when it comes to good presentation design. We often know what we want to say but we just don’t know how to say it visually.

The ultimate goal is to allow your PowerPoint slides to function as visual aid supporting your key message – rather than LEAD the presentation itself. To stir up some inspiration getand the creative juices flowing here are a few sites that inspire us.

Photography: Finding a powerful image to represent your key message is a simple yet effective way to engage with your audience. Here is a selection of outstanding conceptual photographs from around the world to rouse the senses.

Colours: If you love colour then check out Labs.ideeinc. Using visual similarity technology – you simply choose a set of colours and the site locates a range of images made up of the colours you chose. The images have been extracted from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr.

Conceptual: Dribbble is a community of designers, developers and other creative types who share their design work for all to enjoy.

So K.I.S.S, use less words, more powerful visuals and inspire your audience.

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I came across some research recently that got me thinking. Over half the respondents who attended a presentation preferred receiving the presentation as a PDF as a follow up resource. Why is this? Are we that busy? Are our brains so overloaded with information that we can’t remember what we were told the day before? Or is it because the presentation wasn’t that memorable?

We are hit with thousands of different messages every day and only remember a few. This is why it is so important to make your presentations memorable, interesting and compelling. One way to do this is to take a lesson from our childhood.

How many great stories do you remember and how simple were they – “Hungry Caterpillar”, “Green Eggs and Ham”? They had few words, interesting pictures and an uncomplicated structure. If you want people to remember your message, try creating visually engaging stories that people can relate to and follow.

For more presentation tips, check out our PowerPoint Tutorials here.

Happy presenting!

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We were thrilled to see the editors of SlideShare – the world’s largest community for sharing presentations – selected our new Credentials PowerPoint Presentation to be showcased on their ‘How To’ section.
Check it out at http://www.slideshare.net/category/howto-diy
Our credentials which were built in PowerPoint 2010 demonstrate the fabulous services we have on offer to help you with your PowerPoint Presentations.
Thanks Slideshare!

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The team at Presentation Studio thought it was time…

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Ignite Sydney 2010 was a great success. The speeches were engaging, well delivered and highly visual – the crowd also played a great role  joining in and enjoying the night. We loved working with the presenters and host Stephen Lead and were very excited about the people we met and teamed up with.

So while we’re on this high we want to offer a 10% discount to anyone who mentions Ignite Sydney when they use one of our presentation services.

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The countdown is on for the much anticipated Ignite Sydney 4 event, being held here in Sydney at Oxford Art Factory on Tuesday 2nd March. This is part of the bigger ‘Global Ignite Week’ event where 40+ cities around the globe each host their own Ignite event at the same time.

We are big supporters of Ignite, as a showcase and celebration of a series of short presentations delivered by a range of speakers on ……… whatever!  The format: each presenter has 5 minutes to present 20 slides which are set on a 15 second automatic transitions on a topic of their choice. These simple yet effective parameters force speakers to consider their core message and wrap it up into a punchy, succinct and often entertaining pack – the way a lot of presentations should be!

We are now seeing large corporates adopt similar styles for their speakers at conferences and internal team days as way to encourage creativity, refine content and inject a bit of entertainment into what can be tediously long days.

Here’s some quick tips to help you create a short and snappy presentation:

• Know  your audience – this will help you shape your presentation
• Organise your key messages on paper before you even open PowerPoint
• Choose powerful and relevant images that help the audience understand your message
• Rehearse, rehearse and rehearse!  – if you know your content, the rest comes naturally

See you at Ignite!

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I recently heard this great analogy describing how your font should function as a ‘crystal goblet’ in your marketing/presentation material. In the sense that the font type should act like a transparent vessel that holds, shapes and organizes your information without being a feature in itself. In saying this, it is a well known fact that your font choice will subconsciously influence the tone and feel of the message you are tyring to convey.

In the last 50 years we have seen an explosion of san serif fonts in global communications, first popularized by the typeface Helvetica in the late 1950’s. Helvetica brought a new era of pert, friendly, rational and honest fonts. This explains why the so many of the ‘big boys’ in today’s corporate world have adopted this font into their brand identity.

When I did a little further investigation into this typography revolution, I came across a fascinating retrospective film-doco called ‘Helvetica’ that reviews its rise to fame last century.  Released in 2007, the film has continued to draw attention to a far wider audience than the ‘typographer’ that you think it would attract. 

Check out: www.helveticafilm.com – it will certainly make you think next time you select a font for your upcoming presentation.

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One of the most informative and captivating annual wrap-ups for me has to be from ‘Most Contagious Magazine’.

This year, they have included the most contagious ideas in everything from design to branded applications, from technology to real time media. 

One of my favourites is the MIT Media Lab application that featured at TED in February. Their SixthSense application combines a webcam, battery-powered projector and mirror in communication with a cell phone. This allows the wearer to use their hands to interact with information projected onto any surface – from a wall to a hand, newspaper or entire person. Removing the boundaries of where and how you can share information. Check it out here and download the free annual review.

 Merry Christmas from everyone at Presentation Studio and we look forward to sharing more with you in 2010.

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