What Is Pecha Kucha? Is Google Meet any good?

One way to liven it all up is to explore the world of Pecha Kucha.

This is a Japanese presentation technique where the speaker is limited to 20 slides which display for 20 seconds each and autoplay.

This forces the presenter to be extremely well organised and to keep up otherwise they’ll get entirely tied in knots.

For the audience, it’s great fun and means meetings are highly focussed with only the absolute priority information coming across.

Well this coming Saturday is International Pecha Kucha Day.

A diverse range of special guests will be taking part from around the world - organisers are calling it a 24 hour worldwide celebration of creativity, optimism and love - find out more at pechakucha.com

It’s free to watch the sessions and you’re even invited to share your own Pecha Kucha through social media using the hashtag ipk2022

Zoom and Teams get much of the attention when it comes to webinars but Google Meet might be worth another look.

It integrates very easily with Google Mail and Calendar, there’s nothing to download and if you’ve got files already stored on Google Drive it’s seamless to share them with participants through the life chat or to drop them into the presentation itself.

The system looks deceptively simple which leads some users to think it doesn’t have the more advanced functions of its competitors - but it often does - even down to the virtual backgrounds and generating captions.