What on earth is Pecha Kucha?

dirk — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:33:26 +0000

Yesterday at MoMo Amsterdam #10 a new experiment was held: The public had been asked previously to submit ideas for presentations to be performed in Pecha-Kucha style: 20 slides in 20 seconds each. In the end five presentations were selected by the MoMo organisers, amongst which my presentation on the future mobile loyalty platform.
The Pecha-Kucha style was invented so that presentors conform to a strict time frame and have the audience’s full attention during 6 minutes 40 seconds. But for someone not trained in this style, like me, it’s certainly hard to get the right message accross when you’re so concentrated on getting your timing right. The reactions were also mixed, a learning for me that with Pecha-Kucha the message must be clear after the second sheet and the rest of the slides illustrating that message.

You have no room to adjust to your public and help it stay on track with you so you must get it right immediately. I personally prefer to have the clicker back next time I’ll present

The twitter backchannel reached a point when it wasn’t useful to the discussion anymore: It hardly contributed with questions to the speakers and had to deal with some outrageous comments. It’s time for change! Moderation to filter only the comments contributing to the discussion or some public filtering using a voting system? I bet we’ll see a different backchannel at the next MoMo.

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Other blogs reporting on the MoMo presentations:
Mobile Cowboys
Dutch Cowgirls
Mobile Monday Amsterdam

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What on earth is Pecha Kucha?