TV News Gets It: The Future of Presentations
Don’t worry, this is not a political entry. For all of you who have ever made a presentation with PowerPoint using 60 slides riddled with bullets: We want you to watch this short clip from Meet the Press. This should be the future of business presentations:
See what’s going on here? This is an interactive presentation tool. It is not just ten bullets on a slide in 14-point text. This allows the presenter to do several things:
- Get his initial point across
- Demonstrate variations on his point
- Not just answer questions, but SHOW the answer to questions
- Involve his audience by letting them play “what if”
Think about this the next time you put together a presentation. We’re all guilty of putting our audiences to sleep with PowerPoint, it’s about time we started devising ways to involve our audiences.
You don’t need an expensive touch screen either. I remember staying up late during the 2000 election because I wanted to go to sleep knowing who our next president was going to be. The late, great Tim Russert got it, he sat at the news desk with a small white board and sketched out every possible scenario. A WHITE BOARD!
Russert and his famous mini-white board
