Yesterday I talked a little about Nancy Durante and Slide:ology, a paradigm shift in thinking about how to present information. In today’s installment, I’ve chosen one of her quick demo talks on the “Presentation Landscape” diagram she used in the previous video. You can download the document from the original article, Don’t Get Discouraged , Fight for What’s Right!

From Nancy
“If you’ve created a document, call it a document, treat it like it’s a document, distribute it like it’s a document, but don’t stand up in front of your organization and present those things… If it’s a true presentation, the only thing that’s ever put onto the screen is what the audience themselves need to remember.”

Watching this video will give you a good context for how to determine the difference between a document and a presentation. You can also see Nancy eat her own dog food as the presentation itself follows her own rules: communicate with storytelling and images, not blocks of text.