Hi guys! I hope you’re well and that you have been getting started with your lab work. Unfortunately, I couldn’t join you during the Wasa Museum visit, but I may show up for the Birka trip. Anyway, we will meet for the poster workshop in August.

Below, you will find my PPt slides as well as some links which may be useful. I wish you a nice summer and good luck with your summer projects: may your experimental systems be reliable and may your biomolecules be obedient!

Feel free to email me for questions, reflections or feedback on your PPt slides or poster design.

O.

olle@bergman.com

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My slides

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A PPt for scientific presentations

This template is based on chapter 16 in Matt Carter’s Designing Science Presentations. Matt is an assistant professor of biology at Williams College, Massachusetts, and a very friendly person!

• A science talk PPT template 

Presentation techniques

A resource page with some selected guides and websites (work in progress).

• The Presentation Techniques Hub

Poster design

A resource page with some selected guides and websites.

• The Poster Design Hub

Information design

• Basic graphic design: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity
  A chapter from a book by Garr Reynolds.
• Remove to Improve 
  The video we studied during the workshop to demonstrate the data to ink ratio – great stuff!
• Remove to improve
  Some notes from the makers of the video above.

Hällby forest, northwest of Eskilstuna, June 2019.

Tack för en trevlig eftermiddag i Stockholm! Thanks for a great afternoon in Stockholm!

Below, you’ll find the slides from our workshop together with some useful links.

Good luck with your communication and don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have reflections or questions.

Olle B.
olle@bergman.com
070-888 55 41

The question business angels and venture capitalists ask themselves!

My slides

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Writing

• (EN) Nielsen Norman Group: Inverted Pyramid
• (EN) Karolinska: About topic sentences
• (EN) Five rules of effective writing from George Orwell
• (SE) 5 TIPS om skiljetecken från (min hustru) Lotten Bergman
  
• (EN) A piece by yours truly: Lamenting the Wordiness of Learned People

Rhetoric

• (EN) I recommend this audiobook which you can download for free from Audible (if you’re a new customer): A Way with Words.
• (EN) Another good book in English: You Talkin’ to me?
• (SE) UR har sänt intressanta program om retorik, bland annat Tala ut (pdf-handledning).

Hi everybody!

Thanks for a great day in København! I think we had some really interesting discussions. Here are some guidelines and links to help you with your work. Feel free to email me or call me!

Looking forward to see your posters – be bold and be interesting!

O.

PS will add more stuff to this page during the day.
PS 2 I recommend a visit at Better Posters – the biggest web site about poster design on the web.

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olle@bergman.com
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@OlleBergmanSE

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Designing a poster – a work process

Intellectual preparation phase

1. Go through the elevator pitch you wrote yesterday.
2. Decide on 2–4 main conclusions.
3. Pick out the visuals you need to support your conclusions.
4. Write a working title (just a starting point for your planning – you will polish it later).

Basic Design Phase

1. Use printouts, pen & paper, whiteboard and/or Post-it notes for sketching a layout.
2. Decide a logical order.
3. Write single sentences for the different components (you will fill in more text later in the process).
4. Start the layout work in PowerPoint or InDesign. Think about CRAP, stick to the grid and don’t make the text columns too wide. Think BIG! Here’s a tool (there’s plenty of them!) for creating a color palette: https://www.canva.com/color-palette/
5. When you have a basic layout, add more text.

Refinement Phase

1. Work on the title – I suggest writing three to five different alternatives and let your peers give feedback.
2. Look at every single element (graph, diagram, header, paragraph, sentence, line, frame, logo …) and ask yourself ”Does it add value for the reader or is it just noise?”.
3. Shorten the texts. Cherish the white space!
4. Polish the visuals, thinking about the data/ink ratio.

Optional

• Prepare your verbal explanation.
• Make three different posters: one conservative, one balanced and one radical.

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Links

The Poster Design Hub
A resource page for scientific posters

Basic graphic design: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity
A chapter from a book by Garr Reynolds.

Remove to improve
Some notes from the makers of the video we saw

Designguide Science Københavns Universitet
English notes in the right column!

Øresund from the Swedish side!

Hi guys!.

Always great to meet the IoT influencers of tomorrow at KTH and Bosön! Good luck with your projects in the intersection between business and R&D. Feel free to connect on LinkedIn, and don’t hesitate to get in touch if you want to have a discussion about practical case stories where skillful communication plays an central part.

O.

olle@bergman.com
se.linkedin.com/in/ollebergman/en
instagram.com/generalblom

My slides

2018-08-07_IOT_compressed

Information design

• Basic graphic design: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity
  A chapter from a book by Garr Reynolds.
• Remove to Improve 
  The video we studied during the workshop to demonstrate the data to ink ratio – great stuff!

Presentations

• Ten tricks to have your audience hang on your lips
  Tips from the Belgian company The Floor is Yours
• presentationskills.me
  Hard-earned experience from Lale Byquist
• The magic Washing Machine 
  My favourite presentation by Hans Rosling

Famous statue in Stockholm – perhaps a metaphor for the entrepreneur in you who want to break free? (Instagram: generalblom)

It was great to meet you, this warm June day in Stockholm! Below, you will find my PPt slides as well as some links which may be useful.

Good luck with your summer projects. As I said: feel free to email me for feedback on your PPt slides or poster design.

O.

olle@bergman.com
se.linkedin.com/in/ollebergman/en
instagram.com/generalblom

My slides

• 2018-06-07_SoFoSk_compressed

A PPt for scientific presentations

This template is based on chapter 16 in Matt Carter’s Designing Science Presentations. Matt is an assistant professor of biology at Williams College, Massachusetts and a great guy!

• A science talk PPT template 

Presentations

• Ten tricks to have your audience hang on your lips
  Tips from the Belgian company The Floor is Yours
• presentationskills.me
  Hard-earned experience from Lale Byquist
• The magic Washing Machine 
  My favourite presentation by Hans Rosling

Posters

• Tips for a readable poster
  A Swedish classic – a bit old, but still very useful.
• How to win a scientific poster contest
  More advice from The Floor is Yours
• How to create a beautiful scientific poster?
  Advice from Pieter Torrez, marine biologist & graphic artist
• Better Posters
  Tons of advice from Zen Faulkes, University of Texas Rio Grande.

June evening in Råby-Rekarne socken, east of Eskilstuna. In the distance, two cranes were dancing in the marshy fields.