Making Your Message Stick: presentation skills for information professionals - Ned Potter Venue: Euston House, 24 Eversholt Street, London NW1 1AD Date: Thursday, 27 March, 2014 - 09:30 - 16:30 Course Outline: As the requirement to present to an audience and create presentations for use online becomes ubiquitous across many different information roles, this course equips delegates with the skills and confidence they need to excel at it. Aspects of presentation skills covered include: Presentation preparation: researching content, tailoring to different audiences and rooms Where to find fabulous (and copyright cleared) images and fonts to use in presentations Presenting: practice, delivery, confidence - and finding what works for you No more death by PowerPoint! Making beautiful and incredibly effective sides A guide to using Prezi, the zooming presentation software Advanced tips and how to make messages stick - what the research shows Who should attend: Information professionals at any stage of their careers who wish to improve a range of presentation skills. Course Presenter: Ned Potter Ned Potter is Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of York, as well as a trainer and presenter. His slide-decks have been 'Featured Presentations' on Slideshare's homepage several times and have reached over a quarter of a million people. His guides to Prezi are promoted by Prezi themselves. He is part of the Prezi Pioneer programme and was Technical Reviewer for the book Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations. Ned is also the author of the Library Marketing Toolkit published by Facet Publishing in 2012 and has given training for the British Library, Bodleian Libraries and the Latvian Ministry of Culture among others. He can be found online at www.thewikiman.org<http://www.thewikiman.org>. CILIP's Professional Knowledge and Skills Base (PKSB) This course supports the following elements of CILIP's PKSB: 11. Customer focus, service design and marketing: 11.2 Communicating with stakeholders 12. IT and communication: 12.4 Social Media and Collaborative Tools; 12.5 Communication Skills Costs (including lunch and refreshments): UKeiG members £200 + VAT at the current rate; others £245 + VAT at the current rate Find out more at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/trainingevent/making-your-message-stick-presentation-skills-information-professionals-ned-potter-0 http://tinyurl.com/qzqkdw5 To register your interest, reserve a place, or request further details, please email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>