Comments on: The Binderpoint Presentation

By: John

John — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:38:05 +0000

Thanks for the reply, December. This binder based presentation system has worked really well at Toastmasters meetings. It’s compact, easy to carry, and requires no electricity. For most small groups it is easy to read… even from the side. It sure beats a 20 minute projector and laptop setup for a 5 to 7 minute speech.

The big secret is to keep the fonts large and the graphs simple. I like your idea of changing the binder size. You can easily adapt this to a larger or smaller binder and that really opens up the possibilities.

Thanks for the mod ideas!

John

By: December

December — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:57:48 +0000

I definitely like this one and not just for making a presentation from powerpoint either! It translates well from just about any type of software application that you could think of, though powerpoint is best for presentations.

I’m actually going to use it, with a little tooling on the binder size, for a step by step instruction flip chart to keep with me for a somewhat complex process that I must remember the steps for. And, the page protectors keep the paper from wearing and dirt collecting, perfect for something I’m using over and over.

I believe I saw your prototype of this at a Toastmaster meeting, but you have improved it with some helpful elements since then. I’m glad that you presented it – because it’s a very timely tool that I’ll now use that I’d forgotten all about.

Kudos John! Keep up the handy inventions.

By: John

John — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:25:44 +0000

Great Idea, Katy! After having to work without a projector in our board room for the past month, we have had to come up with many alternate solutions. I like the idea of the bookmarks as a memory jogger.

Definitely added to our solutions file!

Thanks,

John

By: Katy

Katy — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:57:25 +0000

Great idea! I’m bookmarking this one.

Another suggestion I’d like to put forward is that if you’re presenting to a larger group that may not all be able to get around your binderpoint is to copy the presentation onto a flip-chart. You could print the presentation out onto A3 paper and stick it on the flip-chart pages. You can add little “bookmarks” to the side of the flip-chart by using small post-its as a reminder of what page is next.