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Nicholas Oulton

Nicholas Oulton is the founder of m62 visualcommunications and the author of the book "Killer Presentations: Power the imagination to visualise your point with PowerPoint". This blog combines learnings from his experience and tips for designers and presenters to make their message engaging, memorable and effective. Read more about Nicholas and this blog

19DEC2012
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There is always someone better!

The art of competence

What are you good at? Chess, cooking, squash, sailing, wine appreciation, business, presenting or perhaps selling? One thing is for sure – you are probably not the best at all of them.

How good do you need to be to deliver an effective presentation about any of these subjects? Certainly not world class. Competent is the word that springs to my mind. You don’t need to be the best – just better than the average of the group. I have given presentations on all of the subjects above, but I am clearly not the best at any of them. The secret is to know that you don’t need to be. Continue reading →

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12NOV2012
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Ceridian – Before and After

I recently delivered a seminar for a client of ours, during which I talked the audience through before and after slides and an explanation of why we’d changed them. They asked us to record the slides, so I thought I’d also record a copy to share with you! The presentation slides focus on the modernisation of HR, and how 3 separate areas are key to driving this.

This is how I helped Ceridian move away from using bullet points and start using audience-focused, effective visual slides.

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6NOV2012
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The Future of Webinars

Last month, I delivered the first webinar of its kind: a live broadcast of the presenter (in this case, me!), delivering a presentation – in front of my slides.

This truly is breakthrough technology as delivering a webinar in this way has never been possible before. Being able to see the presenter as well as the slides keeps audiences engaged, and makes presentations far more effective. This really has the potential to completely revolutionise the way webinars are delivered in the future.

The webinar explained how and why businesses should be using video content to drive sales, and just what the latest technology is capable of. But don’t worry if you missed it – you can watch the recording here!

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17SEP2012
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Technical vs Application Selling

So a few of us spent 5 days last week at a huge Broadcast Exhibition in Amsterdam, IBC 2012. We were there primarily to support our Strategic Partner, Ultimatte, but also to announce our partnership to bring high end video production values to the corporate presentation market.

The interesting thing is that wandering around this huge event (14 halls and 1300 stands), there wasn’t much selling going on. Lots and lots of technical people having lots and lots of technical conversations, but the sort of conversations I would expect to overhear at a trade show were largely in the minority.

What I mean by this is that there are lots of questions from the visitors that ask, “How do you do that? How do I do this? I need to do this – what do you have that will help?” and almost exclusively the response is a detailed technical explanation of HOW to solve that problem.

But the inner salesperson in me wants to avoid answering these questions and ask WHY: “Why do you want to do that? Have you thought about what impact it would have if you did this?”

Our new Partners at Ultimatte are engineers through and through, and are really comfortable having the ‘This is how it works’ conversation. As a result, they are very cautious of my approach of stopping passersby and asking, “So do you ever have to record amateur presenters?”, before proceeding to deliver a case for SightDeck if they say yes. Inevitably they want to know how it works and I have to pass it off to someone who actually knows. I’m clearly in the minority here, perhaps everywhere – I really don’t care how things work, I care about what they can do for me!

So I write blogs but I have no idea how to publish them, I drive cars but don’t know how to service them, and now I record presentations on our SightDeck but I… Well actually after 5 days of listening to the experts I do know how this thing works and can definitely say it’s very cool. But still not as cool to me as what we can do with it…

For the first time in 15 years we can actually demonstrate what we do on the web. We can record us presenting our slides. We can take clients and record a version of their presentation for training, for marketing, for sales, even for fun! SightDeck will not only revolutionise how we market, but how we sell, and how we deliver our work to clients. It’s the most significant breakthrough in presentation technology since InFocus launched the first Data Projector.

Technical selling has its place. Most people won’t buy something they don’t understand, but when it comes down to it you don’t often buy a piece of technology just because it’s cool… OK that’s a lie, I just bought a GoPro camera with absolutely no application in mind – I just got excited on the GoPro stand… And come to think of it, I might have spent $200k on a SightDeck because it’s cool, but I did have to make a business case for the loan… which meant a lot of commercial selling as well!

Check out our IBC 2012 presentations using our brand new SightDeck here.

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14SEP2012
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How Do You Record a Bright Screen? Introducing SightDeck!

For fifteen years we have been making clients’ presentations better and then training and coaching them to deliver amazing pitches, but we have struggled to show the world what we do. The problem is that when you put a presenter in front of his slides, and then both presenter and slides in front of a camera, it looks terrible. Screen images aren’t bright. Carbon copies of their slides look terrible.

Your eye has an iris that automatically adjusts to allow the right amount of light to hit your retina, allowing you to see things that are dark, as well as bright. Carbon fibre irises in cameras can’t respond in the same way, and so images that contain two subjects that give off different amounts of light don’t record well with a single camera.

In a TV studio there are a handful of genius lighting experts that, given enough time and equipment, can produce a solution that would allow you to stand in front of a plasma screen and interact with it, but you’ll need a $200k camera, as well as the studio, to get close to what we can produce using Ultimatte’s ground breaking SightDeck technology.

In a nutshell, SightDeck projects a low contrast, dimmer version of your graphics onto a light sensitive screen. The system detects the shadow of the presenter and removes them from the image, projecting pure white light onto the presenter. The system then takes a feed of the presenter on a transparent background and places them over a bright carbon copy of their slides, thus producing an extremely high contrast, high quality composite of presenter and slides… in real time!

We think this is going to revolutionise the business presentation market, and we are launching two new services on the back of this amazing technology: stream62 and view62.

stream62 is to use this technology for the live broadcasting of clients’ content, over IPTV, video conferencing or broadcast systems. We think this is a great solution for webinars, sales pitches or video conferences.

view62 is for recording content for video on demand systems; we see applications for websites, e-marketing tools and sales collateral that will blow your prospects away.

Business presentations just got a lot better.

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