By the way, your inclusion of the video by Jean-Luc Doumont reminded me of my own education in the art of presentation by Tom Mucciolo, a master presenter himself who trains others in making presentations. I heard him in person where he taught us to become more effective presenters, and this happened at the beginning of my career switch to video producer, very auspicious timing. Long before my exposure to Mucciolo's precepts for awesome presentation, some professors at Mudd were saying back in 1980 and 1981 that I had set some kind of precedent in engineering presentation simply by referring to myself as "I" and my team as "we," and then telling the audience what we or I had done in our project. Apparently, speaking in the third person was the norm for presentations back in those days.
By the way, your inclusion of the video by Jean-Luc Doumont reminded me of my own education in the art of presentation by Tom Mucciolo, a master presenter himself who trains others in making presentations. I heard him in person where he taught us to become more effective presenters, and this happened at the beginning of my career switch to video producer, very auspicious timing. Long before my exposure to Mucciolo's precepts for awesome presentation, some professors at Mudd were saying back in 1980 and 1981 that I had set some kind of precedent in engineering presentation simply by referring to myself as "I" and my team as "we," and then telling the audience what we or I had done in our project. Apparently, speaking in the third person was the norm for presentations back in those days.
Need to look up Tom, thanks for the recommendation. Always looking for more perspective on honing storytelling and presenting.
Thanks for sharing your Mudd anecdote as well. Some rules (third person only) are meant to be tastefully and intentionally broken!