Compelling presentations

Unsure about the value of diagrams to presentations?

Compare this kind of bulleted outline form:

• What are the Pros and Cons of Outline form?
• Pro: Good for input: Fast and familiar
• Pro: Handy for output, sometimes
• Con: Boring: The reader / audience's eyes glaze over
• Fix: Mix bullet point output with other more visually interesting and informative styles of presentation.
• E.g.: Images
• E.g. bCisive Online diagrams
• Con: Not great for showing relationships

with the corresponding bCisive Online map (click on the diagram to enlarge):

Far more compelling, eh?

In my next post I make the case for using outline form for quickly jotting down ideas, and diagrammatic form for structuring and especially presenting. And in the final post in this mini-series I show how outline input might work in practice.