Is Pecha Kucha the next mashed potato martini?
That’s what Kristi Casey Sanders asks in this interesting post about how what’s hip today might become passé, presentation-format-wise. Plus she includes a great list of tips (and she’s funny).
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January 19th, 2012 at 11:51 am
Cross-posted from Kristi’s blog:
Kristi makes some really interesting points about PeCHA KuCHA (sorry, I can’t bring myself to call it Hunky Monkey). The two takeaways I draw from you post are that:
* Like any other session format, Pecha Kucha has its place, and should not be used beyond the purposes for which it makes sense. It isn’t a silver bullet, but no other format is, either.
* Like any other format, Pecha Kucha can go horribly wrong…or it can be a soaring success. As a one-time and, I hope, reasonably but not 100% effective PK presenter, my blood runs cold at the thought of participants (drunken or otherwise) texting in their critical comments in real time. But that’s not an essential or even an intended element of the format, and certainly points to a moment when presenters can and should be protected from immediate feedback. (Wait 15 minutes for the adrenaline to subside. Then talk to them.)
I guess I’m fortunate that I’ve only ever seen Pecha Kuchas organized by one of the most thoughtful, sensitive, and effective meeting designers I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet or work with. That would be Adrian Segar of Conferences That Work in Brattleboro, VT. I’m hoping he’ll comment here, as well, because he’s had a lot of PK experience in a number of different settings.
As far as 20 slides x 20 seconds…it’s intimidating as h@ll at first, but once you get used to it, it becomes a fixed frame inside of which anything is possible.
So on the whole, I do think Pecha Kucha is here to stay, but no one is suggesting that it can or should be the format for all occasions. Used as directed, it’s a great way to share knowledge and deliver an energy boost onsite.
(BTW, I caught Traci’s Pecha Kucha online after ECEC11. It rocked.)
January 21st, 2012 at 12:56 pm
What we can do is learn from PeachKucha - that is, that graphics have a great impact and use them (v. way too many words) in presentations. People relate to pictures. I use istockphoto.com to license great photos and cartoonbank.com to license New Yorker cartoons for presentations. It’s all reasonable and adds to what we are doing.
I think that Kristi is right and I think you, dear Mitchell, are wrong: there will be something far more interesting to come along and everyone will jump on it next and think it’s the new “mashed potatoes in a martini glass” cool.
Think TED, ya know?
February 5th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Hi Sue! Glad you liked the tips (and my sense of humor). Although I have to say the funniest thing is that Mitchell cut and pasted his comments over here too. That’s some serious love for Hunky Monkey! And speaking of serious love … Joan Eisenstodt: Will you be my Valentine?
Plan well and prosper!
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