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- Adapt to your audience (10)
- Build a clear structure (9)
- Be concrete (9)
- Make your visuals and text (13)
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A better slide in 6 steps
Want to make a slide that makes your story undertandable and appealing? This article helps you on your way.
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Storytelling: a 4-step method
Use this storytelling method to tell a good story. From starting idea to end product in 4 steps.
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What is storytelling?
The word ´storytelling´ is used in different ways. So what does it mean exactly? And how do you apply it in your work?
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To inform is not a goal
Inform, explain, update... Are these things you do often? Stop! Learn to give your story a true goal and urge your audience to action.
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Make your audience ‘all ears’ with the IKEA technique
Do you want to know how to make your audience interested in your story? Then read this article.
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SCQA: What is it, how does it work, and how can it help me?
Need a structure for your story? Use the SCQA method for a clear and attractive story structure.
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State your main message in the heading
State your message in the heading. It helps your audience understand you. Learn to make statement headings in 6 steps.
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How to choose a fitting visual
The sense that you're just improvising. Do you recognize that feeling when working on visuals? This article helps you choose consciously between 4 types of visuals.
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How to make sure your audience can follow you
Discover a colorful technique for guiding people smoothly through your story, step by step. Even if your topic is complex.
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6 ways to tell your audience vivid and engaging stories
You present your complex and abstract topic to your audience. How do you make sure they don't tune out?
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6 tips for clear writing
6 ways to help you write texts that are pleasant to read and easy to understand.
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How to make people understand (with 5 hand-drawn examples)
Stuck in words when explaining? Try a different approach: use a sketch to explain something.
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Break academic writing conventions (if you want your paper to be read)
Conventional wisdom: write complicated text if you want to be taken seriously. Is that true? Spoiler: no.
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12 do’s and don'ts for your SCQA
Looking to make a strong SCQA story structure? Use these 12 step-by-step do's and don'ts to build a strong story.
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Avoid information overload: a wine suggestion instead of the wine list
Does your audience not know what to do with your information? Let us tell you about information overload – and how to prevent it.
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A protagonist outside the cinema (part 1 of 2)
Harry Potter, Oliver Twist, Anna Karenina: strong characters captivate us. Can you do the same in policy, business and science?
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A protagonist outside the cinema (part 2 of 2)
Ready to explore how a main character can improve your story? This follow-up article gives ten practical tips.
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How 18 minutes of war statistics can glue you to the screen
You've got a lot of numbers and want to tell a multifaceted story with them. How to keep your audience's attention?
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A complex story? Turn on the navigation for your audience
When driving a car, a TomTom will tell you quickly and clearly where you’re going. Grant your story's audience the same experience.
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This image library turns visualization into a feast
Visuals often explain something faster and better than words. But what to do when find it hard to make visuals?
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Convince your audience: argue against your own proposal
You have a plan full of advantages, but your audience still says no? Follow this stepwise approach from a different perspective.
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Make a structure before you start writing: 3 advantages of a bullet list
You know your subject, but writing about it is hard and time-consuming. Recognizable? Then make a bullet list before you start.
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10.000 identical flyers, the one even more authentic than the other
Authenticity. Everyone knows the concept, but no one knows exactly what others means by it. How to make a flyer on such a subject?
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Learning actionable communication… from a bicycle parking
When you propose an idea you want to enable your audience to act on it. Therefore, be kind and communicate in an actionable way.
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3 alternatives to data visualizations: how to create an image that sticks
The sense that you're just improvising. Do you recognize that feeling when working on visuals? This article helps you choose consciously between 4 types of visuals.
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Engage and convince your audience with a well-adapted SCQA
Different audiences can require completely different storylines, even when the topic is the same. Read this article to see an example.
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How to… adapt to your audience
To make your story successful, it is important to tailor it to your audience. Here you see how you can do that.
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How to… build a clear structure
Stories without a clear structure are difficult to understand. Here you read how you can make a logical story structure.
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How to… make your story concrete
Concrete information helps your audience understand and remember your story. Here you read how to be concrete.
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