Pecha kucha-- pronounced pet-shah coot-shah-- is an onomatopoeic Japanese phrase meaning "the sound of casual chatter." But for a small but growing band of international designers, artists and ...

Bye-bye PowerPoint. A new, speedier way to give presentations, called pecha-kucha, began in a grungy basement in downtown Tokyo in 2003 -- and has now taken root in hundreds of cities worldwide.

Since that first Pecha Kucha in Tokyo the idea has spread around the world to more than 180 cities. "It's not a classic Minnesota thing to be doing.

Their innovation, dubbed pecha-kucha (Japanese for "chatter"), applies a simple set of rules to presentations: exactly 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each. That's it.

Pecha kucha--which comes from the Japanese for “chit-chat"--is an easy, informal way to structure student presentations. While it’s not suitable for presenting hyper-complicated information ...

Social media sites and Wikipedia may be useful for finding information online, but the websites lack a certain human touch – or so said more than 300 people who filled ...