Pecha Kucha

 One night I went to a Pecha Kucha night, just in case you do not know what it is:

Pecha Kucha (chit chat in Japanese) is a new way to do power point presentations. It was created by the two architects that found that people start to wander when presentations are too long, or there is too much written on the power point. So they come out with presentations that consist of 20 slices, 20 seconds each.  Each slice forward automatically and it has not writing on it, it just pictures or illustrations of what you are talking about. The whole presentation is only 6 1/2  minutes, so the audience gets a fast moving presentation and the pictures helps remember better what it has been said.

In 2003 Tokyo had the first Pecha Kucha night to give young designers a forum for their presentations and to network with other companies.

Pecha Kucha night has had became a worldwide event, having events in different countries about any topic that the presenter loves or is interested on.

I have done Pecha Kucha about taxes and I have done a few training sections.  I have attended in the USA, England and now Uruguay.  One of the presenter in Uruguay, (sorry, I forgot his name) was great, he gave a presentation about common sense and had us laughing nonstop.

If you want to learn more, www.pecha-kucha.org and look on their calendar to find one near you, or just look into the sample demonstrations they have.