Help!

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Welcome to Presentation Skills Q and A. I am Martin Lindeschool.

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Hi, Karina.

Carina: 00:00:15

Hi, Martin.

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How are you today?

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I'm fine.

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And yourself?

Carina: 00:00:19

I'm fine.

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I have a song in my head, and I got it as an

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inspiration for this episode.

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And it's Help by Beatles.

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Help. Sometimes you need help like tools or material for helping when you're

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doing a presentation or prep something to hold in your hands or to remember things.

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So right now I'm having here on my desk so called word cards from a stationary company

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called Commodore.

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I ordered some, you could say index cards.

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And then I told about our podcast and Robin, he sent these cue cards or flash cards or word

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cards from a Japanese stationary company, like small cards that you could hold in your hand,

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like reminder or what should I say next? Or when you're studying or whatnot.

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And I know you have lots of pieces of advice here and tips, and you have used it in your

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work.

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Today's topic.

Carina: 00:01:28

Yeah. Support material.

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It really helps you in many ways.

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And now you and I were talking about cards, not fluttering paper, should I say?

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These stiff cards, which you can have control over.

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You can hold them in your hand and you can feel them in your hand.

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And is it like cards that you have, like on the television, television show?

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Often they are bigger, but you know, news reporters or TV anchors, you see them holding

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cards, what will they say next? And then they flip the cards.

Carina: 00:02:04

Yeah. And they have to have these big cards because they also have a prompter in

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front yeah.

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Teleprompter a camera who is filming the cards

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above them.

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So they have the same thing in a prompter in

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front of them.

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But these cards you are talking about,

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schools, for example, have used these flashcards for many years in education.

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For study language, for example, you have the word on one side and the meaning of the world

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on the other side.

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Okay.

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And you can also study history.

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You have something in history and then you

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have the year on the yeah.

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Balancer. Yeah. Like math and so on, like 77 to six.

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You could set a booster gravel.

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70, 76.

Carina: 00:02:59

Yes.

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When was that and what happened then?

Carina: 00:03:02

Yeah, but I think when you use these cue cards or flashcards, it's, it helps you to

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remember what you are going to say.

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But you can also have letters on them that

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helps you how you move on the stage.

Martin: 00:03:22

Okay. Left, right?

Carina: 00:03:23

Yes. Left, right.

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You can connect them both, what you are

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talking about and your body language and make that very easy.

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So in the right corner, you can write L for left, for example, or R for right or M for

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middle.

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Then the people you are talking to, they don't

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know anything, but you are calm in the situation when you're moving back and forth

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over the stage and it looks very natural.

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Yes, but you also have experience.

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You use these cards in which situations?

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Martin right, this one now I get lots of ideas how I could use them.

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And they are in mini format, so it's easy to hold in the hand and bring with you.

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So I will use it like presentations.

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But also it could be for podcasting, it could

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be like when you have some notes or bullet points and also doodling or writing like

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inspiration.

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Because these cards you could take out and put

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in certain order.

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You could do all kinds of things.

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So I got lots of ideas now, but otherwise I have used index cards holding in my hand for

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the slides, for a presentation that next slide.

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And then I have short bullet points and some note to self to remember things.

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Do you have any recommendation which type of cards you were talking about,

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Commodore.

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For a little bit, yeah, I think these are called word cards, the small ones on

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almost like a key chain, but it's like rubber or something like that.

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So I recommend that and then the traditional index cards that you could get at the

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stationary store.

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Also, I remember when I prepared for my

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presentation on podcasting and I went to you and got help with that and training, and then

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you gave a tip.

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You could also have your card with your logo

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type or your branding or something like that and how you could create your own cards.

Carina: 00:05:47

Fan that looks really professional but I think like this we are giving these links in

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the show notes where our listeners can look up these things and get these I really say

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fantastic cards.

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That helps you in many ways.

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Yeah, we will do that.

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So thanks again, Robin, at Commodore for

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sending me with my order.

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And again, the call to action is download a

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new podcast app.

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So you could send like a digital note to us

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with a feedback loop.

Carina: 00:06:24

Yes. And our audience listeners can always find us in social media and get in

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touch there.

Martin: 00:06:31

Yeah. So until next time, karina yes.

Carina: 00:06:37

Bye bye.

Martin: 00:06:38

Bye bye.