I think this is called a precis review. Synthesize, synthesize. My Working Out Loud pecha kucha – Go! I am a (self-appointed) corporate disorganizer, and one way I experiment in this role is by… working out loud, trying to make my … Continue reading 20 Slides x 20 Seconds; One Focus – Working Out Loud (Yo!)
This is me, talking about my work, trying to disorganize and test out future of work practices. It was fun, and it was pretty good, too, based on feedback I received. You should watch it, right? How wasteful can it be to watch a 400 second presentation? Go! ←This Much We Know.→ Continue reading Working Out Loud For 6 Mins 40 Secs
SO, we are done and done. The pecha has been kuched, so to speak. It took a couple of weeks of thinking, iterating, practicing, culling, worrying, and letting go to get it done. It ended like this, in front of around 1000 people The whole process from start to finish was highly enjoyable. There is nothing quite like seeing the work come together before your very eyes, alongside the learning. Double whammy. This is the storify of the process of working out loud on a pecha kucha about working out loud. It got a bit meta, but I just about … Continue reading #PKyvr33 Close Out: It Was All Worth It, From Beginning To End
A Pecha Kucha checklist: 20 appropriate images chosen Single talking point for each image Script of sorts created A clear sense of outcome(s) from being there Slides played at real speed to understand justhowquicktheychange or – how – slowly – they – change so that 15% of the speech is NOT saying “Oh, wow, this goes so fast / hmm, where is the next slide!?” Like a flyweight boxer, all senses moving in rhythm, feeling light and honed Vague plan to deal with inevitable last minute fear that supercedes all the preparation that went before it Level of comfort that … Continue reading #PKyvr33 Day 17: Let’s Do This Thing
Following on from yesterday’s post about Duarte’s ‘what is…’, ‘what could be…’ presentation rhythm, I moved a few slides around and think I have a decent rhythm that balances the content between me – what I did – and us – what is going on in the world. I see that some of the narrative is about me – what I did, working out loud. And some of the slides are about what is possible – explanation, opportunity, invitation. This is the meat on the bone, what I hope some people take away. This is about us. It goes something … Continue reading #PKyvr33 Day 15: Me And Us. Us Is More Important.
I saw a tweet this week that the presentation pioneer Nancy Duarte practiced over 200 hours to prepare her TED Talk, of 18 minutes. That, friends, is commitment, perhaps not surprising for someone with real professional skin in the game but it made me think: I wish all presenters invested even a small percentage of that intent into their presentations. “@mkrigsman: Preparing for TED talk, @nancyduarte spend 200 hours and 38 hours rehearsing for 18 min talk. #cxotalk” #PKyvr33 #WOLyo! — Jonathan Anthony (@ThisMuchWeKnow) June 28, 2014 I know it is only 400 seconds of people’s time, but hey, … Continue reading #PKyvr33 Day 14: What Is…What Could Be…
We are getting down to the wire now. The deadline for the slides for #PKyvr33 was yesterday, and I am basically there. One conundrum is the final slide – how do I best create an opportunity for MORE, encouraging others to participate, connect, network? The delight of pecha kucha is each presentation is easy-come,easy-go. The issue is that I don’t want the work to be just that. I want it to matter to some people. The last slide is a calling card of sorts. Ha. I am probably over thinking it, but still, people pays their money! So, I need … Continue reading #PKyvr33 Day 13: The Content
I sat down at the table the other night and laid out 20 post-it notes, and wrote 20 hashtags on them, and felt much better. I moved some of the notes around to test out the flow. I need to do it a bit more before finalizing the content. I am working concurrently on the background images, all from my iPhone. As I take my work in a more personal direction, I have moved away from Google searches and toward using real-time, local content. Mostly, the images are colour commentary, not the detail. The Hashtags guide the conversation. I need to … Continue reading #PKyvr33 Day 12: Post-It Notes Make Life Easy
When it comes to visuals, giant full-screen images with a large transparent overlay and capitalized headers seems to be the order of the day. Pecha Kucha is maybe 60% visual(?) so I should spend quality time on getting the right set together, and determine any rhythm I want to insert into proceedings. At work we have been doing some rebranding work, and are iterating a common approach so all our powerpoint users can update their decks, so I have been looking at 100s of design ideas recently. In my own amateur, beta works it is a bit more hit and … Continue reading #PKyvr33 Day 11: Visuals
Working out loud and one’s personal brand are inextricably linked. As I often state, your personal brand helps to answer this question: How can I help? It does so because you have shared your work / attributes / beliefs. Your audience has consequentially (re)oriented itself around you, and can answer that question by making suggestions, asking clarifying questions, asking for more or, indeed, saying ‘No thanks!” Conversely, if you have not shared your work, your attitudes, interests and focii, well, what is anyone to make of you? They peer at your job title, mostly, and make their own suppositions. The … Continue reading #PKyvr33 Day 10: Working Out Loud Impacts Your Personal Brand
Yesterday, I shared that I want to create a few opportunities for memories for the audience. I find #Hashtags as a useful synthesis of an idea – to focus MY attention, so that I might focus others’. I can rattle on about this and that, but the constraint of pecha kucha forces behaviour, and it might be the most important area to focus on, assuming the content itself is worthy of presenting… So, here is a working list of hashtags I am using to synthesize the presentation process: #WorkLife: Share something grounded very much in the daily experience of work … Continue reading #PKyvr33 Day 9: Hashtags As Memes
One of the pecha kuchas presentations I gave under the stairs was The Power of 3: that when you present, the best you can hope for is that people might remember three things you have to offer; that if you break down the flow into threes, there is a rhythm – a chunking process – that allows your audience to record data into their short-term memory. So, a pecha kucha with 20 slides, with the opportunity to share 20 points, with 20 images…what are the few chunks I hope others record? What would I hope that people take forward as … Continue reading #PKyvr33 Day 8: Creating A Memory Or Three
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