Imagine images

Martin: 00:00:12

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

Martin: 00:00:15

Hi Karina.

Carina: 00:00:16

Hi Martin.

Carina: 00:00:17

How are you today?

Martin: 00:00:19

I'm fine.

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Yourself?

Carina: 00:00:21

Yes, I'm fine, I am fine.

Carina: 00:00:24

We have a beautiful winter day today.

Carina: 00:00:27

Yes, that's great.

Martin: 00:00:28

It's nice and shiny.

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Nice image to do a photo of it.

Carina: 00:00:33

Absolutely. And this morning I had a beautiful image outside my window.

Carina: 00:00:39

The sky was yellow, pink and a little bit light blue.

Carina: 00:00:45

Very beautiful.

Martin: 00:00:47

Great.

Martin: 00:00:48

And we are talking about images.

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We are talking in audio, but you could also do it audio visual when you do a presentation,

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when you have a podcast, when you illustrate something like in a blog post.

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So that's what we will talk a little bit about today.

Carina: 00:01:07

Yes. And images for this example you mentioned they are rather necessary for your

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audience and for you to bring up your audience emotions for your podcast or for your

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presentation.

Carina: 00:01:27

We use it as well, you and I, in our

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productions.

Martin: 00:01:32

That's correct.

Carina: 00:01:33

Yeah. Do you have any thoughts about that?

Martin: 00:01:36

Yeah, I like what you are doing with we could have it as a separate episode

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artwork.

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Now we are using the general artwork that you

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have done in Canva but for example, we could have used every episode.

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We could illustrate it with a new artwork or image if we want.

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Often podcasters are doing that.

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If I have a guest, for example, we have a

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photo of a guest but that in a way take a bit more time in your workflow, but it could

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really stick out.

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On the other hand, if you repeat your general

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logo type and artwork for your podcast, then people will remember that like other brands

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and so on.

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So you could do it in different ways.

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But I really like what you're doing as like a pre promotion promotion during the episode and

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also until the next time.

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And doing an image in Canva with our selfies,

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our faces and headline or subject or title or a question or something like that.

Carina: 00:02:38

It helps the memory yes, to remember us.

Carina: 00:02:42

That exactly.

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And also often, probably the listener could think about when you present and being

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on stage when they think about so called it's been almost generic now PowerPoint, but that's

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a name of a tool.

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But like slides, you could say like a

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presentation with different images and bullet points and so on.

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And I know that you have thoughts and ideas and commentaries about that.

Carina: 00:03:12

Yes. And there I can really give our audience, our listeners an advice in that

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particular way.

Carina: 00:03:20

When you have a presentations, just use images

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and leave the words behind.

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Skip the words.

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An image says more than thousand words and an image develops the feelings, the right

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feelings to the person who see the images and the person who listened to you.

Carina: 00:03:44

So use images, just images in your presentation, I should say.

Martin: 00:03:49

Yeah, and that's a good tip.

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And do some for the show.

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Notes here some links and we will talk more about that in upcoming episodes.

Martin: 00:03:58

So I have been using Hikidek, a tool that was focused on the images and then you could have

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of course text and bullet points but you could find like I think it was Creative Commons, you

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could find images that you could use, you could upload yourself and it's easy to use

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that way.

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So I have, for example, include that in Show

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Notes, one presentation I did about how you could support content creators and podcasters

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and that got viewed several thousand times so far and you could use it on their website and

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you could embed it in a blog post and so on.

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So that's one tool and another one.

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What we will test out for this podcast is the Vizzy FM.

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So for segments of your episode you could have chapters, so to speak, and it could illustrate

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by an image, for example, book cover of your books.

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For example, if you refer to something that you could illustrate within photo or an image

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and then also call to action like a QR code or a link to a product or something like that.

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So visit FM and that's a new podcast app.

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And also an alternative to PowerPoint could be

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we transfer files, they have a service called Paste and that's something that I have looked

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into also.

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So I'm looking forward to be on stage in the

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future during this year.

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And then of course I have to know what kind of

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tool should I have and use them.

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But again, it's only tools to know your

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content, like for example word cards that we talked about the last time.

Carina: 00:05:46

Yes we did.

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And these tools you are mentioned here are

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really important.

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We should use the tools to get better.

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So the presentation and the images should follow side by side, so to speak.

Carina: 00:06:03

But you link them in our show notes, I suppose.

Carina: 00:06:08

Yes, this is a very interesting topic, I think.

Carina: 00:06:12

So I suggest that we are talking about this next time as well and talking about more about

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these tools.

Martin: 00:06:20

Yeah, we will do that.

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So please send us a comment with an image, for

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example, with a photo.

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What do you think about and what do you see

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when you listen to us?

Carina: 00:06:31

Lovely, really lovely.

Carina: 00:06:34

Well, we say goodbye for now.

Martin: 00:06:37

Yeah, bye for now.

Martin: 00:06:38

Cheerio and talk soon again.