Preparing to fulfill my destiny

[Wirefox]

So, just think of the 'traditional' WRI - Scone and cake competitions; Knitted hat competitions; Best winter photo competitions!

I can smell the rose water and dog rug talc from here. Any publicity is good publicity so i am not going to be cruel on this one. Besides the WI is a secret right wing paramilitary organisation so show plenty of photographs of AK47s and torture apparatus and you will be fine.

On a serious note; Powerpoint is good but many presenters end up using it instead of giving a presentation...if you get my meaning. Be yourself and talk about that you are really comfortable with. Keep mega basic level unless asked to embellish and stick to principles rather than detailed methods. Cut off tangents mercilessly and use humour without a smile for hecklers and dominators.

The down side is that you will be chatted up every time you visit the post office by women who wear sensible shoes and smell of retirement home disinfectant but these women do have power so it could open up other opportunities. Remember keep it professional.....and no sex....they are b**gers on the casting couch

[Katy Noelle]

pfbpfzzt! How did I miss this?

Oh, oh, oh! Can I come, pleeeeease! Sounds fun to me! heh.

Good luck, mon autre ami!

[Donald]

On a serious note; Powerpoint is good but many presenters end up using it instead of giving a presentation...if you get my meaning.

Absolutely - death by Powerpoint. Been there. Experienced it. Hopefully I don't practice it. I haven't had any sleepers in anything I've done so far (which is normally work related). And no, I don't write a lot of text onto a slide and then turn my back on the audience and read it verbatim!

Oh, oh, oh! Can I come, pleeeeease! Sounds fun to me! heh.

Not sure if UK food laws allow the importation of scones into the country for the purposes of competition at WRI meetings. Anyway, it wouldn't be fair - you'd win.

[MrB]

Absolutely - death by Powerpoint. Been there. Experienced it. Hopefully I don't practice it. I haven't had any sleepers in anything I've done so far (which is normally work related). And no, I don't write a lot of text onto a slide and then turn my back on the audience and read it verbatim!

Donald - if you are using Windows but don't need the text aspect of a Powerpoint presentation, you could display your images simply by using the Windows Photo Viewer in Win7, (or Windows Picture and Fax Viewer in WinXP). If it is not already, you could make this your default program to display a jpeg file when double-clicked on. Its Slide Show function can be used to display each image file in a folder, and it has Pause, Forward and Back keys.

It might be helpful if you also prepared a sheet of photography tips to issue to any keen members at the end of your talk.

Philip

[Donald]

It might be helpful if you also prepared a sheet of photography tips to issue to any keen members at the end of your talk.

Good idea, Philip. Thank you.