Check out some common presentation pitfalls to avoid and tips on making presentations that can instead inspire and inform.
Text of How to Create Presentations That Don't Suck
ARE THEY YOUR AUDIENCE ?
1. Make It Simple Less is More!
BEFOREThis is a document! A presentation is the process of presenting a topic to an audience. It is typically a demonstration, lecture, or speech meant to inform, persuade, or build good will. The term can also be used for a formal or ritualized introduction or offering, as with the presentation of a debutante. The process of offering for consideration or display. Its a social introduction, as of a person at court, a demonstration, lecture, or welcoming speech, a manner or style of speaking, instructing or putting oneself forward, the manner of presenting, especially the organization of visual details to create an overall impression, the formal introduction of a person, as into society or at court; debut
AFTER A presentation is the process of presenting a topic to an audience. It is typically a demonstration, lecture, or speech meant to inform, persuade, or build good will. The term can also be used for a formal or ritualized introduction or offering, as with the presentation of a debutante. The process of offering for consideration or display. Its a social introduction, as of a person at court, a demonstration, lecture, or welcoming speech, a manner or style of speaking, instructing or putting oneself forward, the manner of presenting, especially the organization of visual details to create an overall impression, the formal introduction of a person, as into society or at court; debut Cut some to make a slide !
2. KILLING OPENING SLIDE What happens if I bite you?
Sample of mainstream opening slide by : presenter Boring? I feel it too !!
3. POWERFUL IMAGES
Why Visual ? This is a camera ! This is a camera ! Peoples ability to remember in 72 hours TEXT TEXT AND PICTUREPICTURE 10% 35% 65%
4. USE APPROPRIATE FONTS AND TYPOGRAPHY
MAINSTREAM IS BORING Times New Roman Calibri Comic Sans MS Arial Monotype Corsiva