Use A Book As A Bee Does Flowers

 

That is a very valuable point: " Do a book as a bee does flowers" as one person said in his comment about my blog on the need to practice, practice, practice your presentation.

I an not exactly sure just what my reader meant but it could be a relatively easy way to build any presentation – if that idea was combined with another one: Use Mind Mapping to explore and record ideas for future use. For those of you not yet familiar with this researching, writing, editing, and presenting technique just get on the Internet and type in "Mind Mapping" or "Tony Buzan" This will bring up quite a wide variety of possible sites to learn about this presentation technique that can do much to simplify and improve your presentations.

Basically what you will see is that easiest way to build a colourful and effective presentations – especially if you can only devote a few minutes to it at a time is to write the main point of your proposed presentation in the centre of a large sheet of paper.

Then as you discover supporting argument record these on arms branching off this central point – which ideally should be written down with some type of illustration or picture of this main point.

Then from these main supporting points you would write supporting facts, statistics, anecdotes, and illustrations, just like the smaller branches of a tree, that clarify or strengthen these arguments.

To really understand this concept get on that Mind Mapping Web site and try using this when you are building your next presentation.

This will enable you use books to gather ideas and synthesize them into a powerful presentation – just like bees gather nectar from a wide variety of plants and synthesize all if this into nutritious honey for themselves and other creatures.

The wonderful thing about this technique is that it enables you to stop at any point and come back to the research, writing, or editing process when you are able and see almost instantly how your presentation is shaping up and where you can add additional information that you have just come across. It provides a vivid presentation of your entire presentation.