The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

This response is know as the “fight or flight” syndrome , a natural process that is designed to protect your body from harm. What this means is if you know your presentation inside out, it’s more likely that you’ll give an even better presentation in front of a large audience than when you rehearsed alone or in front of a friend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2013

With your metrics in hand, you know that visual content like infographics or text overlay images work really well with your audience. Unfortunately, you don’t have an in-house designer to create this content for you and you barely have enough time to get all the tasks on the to-do list complete. What to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Knowledge capture makes it easy to share the learning with others in the community, but as a session designer and speaker – you can also use it to do an “ after action ” review to help you review the delivery and the content.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

At the same time, however, your messaging will likely reach a broader audience than ever before, leaving the question: What is the balance between individualization and generalization? At the conference, you’ll have no shortage of opportunities to learn, network, share, and have some fun. Related Links : Conference website.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Guide Creative is Blackbaud 's design agency. This week, Guide Creative presented a whole series on the most important elements of web design and visual strategy. If you missed it, read on about creating and designing a successful, engaging website that inspires action. Audience Analysis. Engaging Visual Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Here’s some examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

1) Data Visualization Survival Guide : This resource (including the 176 slides powerpoint deck) was suggested by Devon Smith. The deck was part of a workshop facilitated by Gregor Aisch who combines data visualization, information design, and journalism. Here’s what I discovered. (1) Label your axes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. Does #14ntc give an award for best slides? I nominate #14ntctrain.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Plus, it was remarkably frank with its numbers and slides, without any redactions. Slides in this deck. On the first click-through of the deck, I couldn’t get past the fact that it is laden with typos and the design is god-awful. Cover slide. Case study teaser slide. Problem slide. Solution slide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

My goal for conference presenting moving forward is to be on panels that I have designed or co-designed and that design involves the audience beyond a 5 minute q/a at the end. I realized that I enjoy presenting at sessions when the audience gets to share their knowledge with the room and each other.

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Global Giving

APRIL 10, 2020

If you have multiple speakers, make sure you are prepared by having everyone’s slides on one person’s account, to help with the flow, and to minimize the chances of technical difficulties in switch screen sharing constantly. Use more slides than you think you need, and think visually. Best of luck! Want more tips like this?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Did you know that audiences forget 90 percent of what's presented to them? So — given your teeny amount of available time and your equally tiny budget — here are seven easy-to-implement recommendations that will help your audience retain that 10 percent and keep them from sleeping while you speak: 1. Good job, you!

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Here are some of my thoughts going into the conversation and slides if you prefer engaging that way: Crowdsourcing for Social Change. I think the most important part of designing a competition that leverages crowdsourcing is to strike a balance between too many voices, and too few. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

I've been a participant in design discussions about wiki projects, but never the main architect. Been pausing over the purist definition slide from his slide deck. Her audience is new to wikis, so this is an excellent example of a way to scaffold to comfort levels.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

Below are my slides and a round-up of tips for getting started with a more engaged membership responding to your emails! Email Campaigns: Know Your Audience and Get Results. I shared results from the newest eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from NTEN and M+R Strategic Services. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Highlights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

There were some terrific questions and discussion. I’ve included some resources along with the slides here. The down side is the potential for technology glitches and, of course, not being in the room to catch the audience vibe. We got around those challenges quite well. x=audience is skeptical (legs or arms are crossed).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Slides in this deck. Sateliot’s deck consists of 18 slides and is almost as pitched; the company redacted some of the info that goes into depth about how its tech works. Cover slide. “90% of the world has no cellular coverage” — problem slide. Team slide. ” slide. Market size slide.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It’s a convivial workshop where founders in the audience send me their decks, and I walk through a curated set of them live in front of an exceptional VC panel, who critique the deck slide by slide. We went through two decks — one consumer and one enterprise — covering about 30 slides in total. Product slide.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Think about goals and audience: Before you create content, first think about the ultimate goal and the target audience. Let that inform your decisions on what channel(s) to use to reach your audience. To learn this, test as much as you can in order to get to know your audience well and understand what resonates with them.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Slides in this deck. Five Flute raised its pre-seed round with a really interesting deck; it includes a number of slides that I rarely see in pitch decks, but the narrative flows well, and I can see why the company chose to include them. Here’s an overview: Cover slide. ” — team slide. ” slide.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Slides in this deck. Cover slide. Problem slide. Solution slide. Product road map slide. Market size slide. Market trajectory slide. “Commercial Flywheel” — business model slide. “The Rokoko Platform in 2 years” — product road map slide (redacted). Closing slide.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Back in August, our own Ron Miller covered the $6 million seed round of Spinach, a company that’s building out its meeting tool designed specifically for engineers using agile methodology to run stand-up meetings online. Great mission and solution [Slide 4] That’s how you set a mission. Image Credits: Spinach.io

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The audience had very good English skills so no translation was needed. During the presentation, we had participants jot down questions on index cards and those were used by the facilitators to lead the discussion. We used Google Hangout because they found it was more robust for video, audio, and screen sharing in that remote location.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

My slides are above and my reflections are below. The space where I gave my keynote in Toronto is well designed designed for conversational keynote format. We also had wireless hand mics in the audience. This made it easy for me to get off the stage and wander into the audience to engage them in conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I do a lot of presenting and am spending to much time writing bullet points, creating slides, and practicing what I’m going to say. I think that this puts a stop to creating conversation in the room. I wanted to learn some conversational mechanics — so I could stop talking at people and begin talking with them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? ” Now that’s a design challenge – how to deliver an interactive session that can go in-depth with 80-100 participants in 90 minutes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

My slides are here. In the afternoon, I did workshop and put the audience right on the cat walk with me. In the afternoon, I did workshop and put the audience right on the cat walk with me. My slides are here. I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

One of the things I love, love, love about the deck is that it — like the company’s overall design style — uses the Sierra-era games look. Slides in this deck. Wilco’s seed deck is a 19-slide deck that ticks all of the boxes. I’ve noted them in the list of slides below. Cover slide.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Identify your audience and much will fall into place, including your word choice, mood, and tone. But also, it's important to know how you address your audience, if at all. Personal stories might use "I" and never break the fourth wall, or acknowledge the audience. Add Media to the Slides.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We’ve seen 74-slide decks (yes, really), decks that are riddled with spelling mistakes and bogged down by hideous design (but still work incredibly well), and decks where the founders don’t fully seem to understand what market they are in. Not knowing your audience. A pitch is a story, and stories have audiences.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

As soon as I saw the cover slide for BusRight, I knew I was looking at something really interesting. Here are some highlights: Great customer slide It’s tempting to dive into the unit economics, the growth trajectories and all the ways that the problem is awful and the solution is genius and the product delights. I love my job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. I begin with the instructional goals and finding out as much as possible about the audience. Audience Research.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As Carly Page reported, MedCrypt raised a $25 million round to help device manufacturers think security-by-design when creating the next generation of medical devices. Slides in this deck. The MedCrypt Series B deck is a tidy 12-slide deck. Cover slide. Problem slide. Target audience/market size slide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Using a live streaming application called "Live Stream," conference organizers of the Governor's Nonprofit Leadership Conference in Texas are hoping to draw in an online audience into the discussion about social innovation. LiveStream and other platforms like it can be used creatively at conferences to involve an online audience.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

After redacting some customer adoption details, MedCrypt’s founders shared with TC+ the 12-slide deck that helped it raise a $25 million Series B: Cover slide. Problem slide. Target audience/market size slide. Opportunity slide. Mission slide. Product slide: Vulnerability tracking.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Below, I’ve shared my keynote remarks and slides and I hope you’ll share your ideas and further the conversation in the comments. That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. Community-Driven Model. What roles are needed?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Also slotting somewhere in the product category is Gamma , a presentation designer platform built around a card-like interface. “Alternatives like management consulting and design agencies are expensive and inaccessible to the vast majority of business professionals.” Prezent.ai’s online design dashboard.

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