presentations

[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html] My Boy Donald. Takes daily blows from myriad media nemeses. Including here on 23 June 2017, the New York Times. Here’s the original tweet [https://twitter.com/stuartathompson/status/878971083201884160/photo/1] from their graphics director of a

Alas it is an experience I’ve had more than once. A vigorous debate, verging on the aggressive perhaps, with a corporate marketing officer. I have strayed from their prescribed slideshow design. They don’t like it. Today I’m thinking specifically of an instance many years ago. In a

[https://twitter.com/daily_politics/status/870610151723507712] Alternative facts, fake news, post-truth, echo chambers, metropolitan liberal elite bias, satirical propaganda, partial impartiality. Where to turn if you’re crying out for “true facts”? The plethora of reality check vendors? Here’s one. Oh dear. The man above on the left

I was enjoying coffee with a photographer [https://www.instagram.com/mjarophotography/]. Then a man with a large camera and associated bag of tricks began to set up in a corner of the cafe. A legal lady was to have her picture taken. Cue jokes about long zoom size as

[http://futurecapetown.com/2017/02/report-church-square/] I’ve blogged on this vital skill [http://salespodder.com/do-you-dress-the-room/] before. Theatre stage designers can teach sellers a great deal. Not in terms of trap doors, no matter attractive one may often be, nor smoke and mirrors to add pizzazz to a presentation.

[http://www.thecooperreview.com] The Venn Diagram. Lovely to see it accorded such prominence in the meeting room satire of Sara Cooper’s debut book. ∩= sweet spot. I can see this turned into a knowingly cheeky sales flipchart routine. Draw only the two interlocking circles and label their intersection. Then