The secret structure of great talks
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Nancy Duarte |
TEDxEast
• November 2011
From the "I have a dream" speech to Steve Jobs' iPhone launch, many great talks have a common structure that helps their message resonate with listeners. In this talk, presentation expert Nancy Duarte shares practical lessons on how to make a powerful call-to-action.
From the "I have a dream" speech to Steve Jobs' iPhone launch, many great talks have a common structure that helps their message resonate with listeners. In this talk, presentation expert Nancy Duarte shares practical lessons on how to make a powerful call-to-action.
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Nancy Duarte believes that ideas are the most powerful tools people have. Her passion is to help every person learn to communicate their world-changing idea effectively.
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The immersive multimedia version of my book Resonate allows readers to interact with the material I presented in my TEDx Talk. It includes in-depth speech analyses of Steve Jobs and Martin Luther King, Jr., plus other persuasive speakers of our time. There are great examples of so-called 'STAR moments' — 'Something They’ll Always Remember.' (Many of the greatest TED talks have a moment that you will just never forget.) There’s also a Director’s cut where you’ll see behind-the-scenes insights into how I discovered the persuasive story pattern in the talk — along with other personal insights into my book-writing journey.
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Many people do brilliant thinking in PowerPoint, but project dense slides. Instead, presenters should use a 'slidedoc' for their dense data. A slidedoc is a document created using presentation software, where visuals and words unite to illustrate one clear point per page. They’re meant to be printed or distributed instead of presented. The result is a medium that can be read more quickly than a document. Use cinematic slides to present to your audience, and use slidedocs as pre-read or follow-up material.
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