Powerpoint tips--Don't put your audience to sleep!

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Tips for not putting

your audience to

sleep with your

PowerPoint

presentation

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Today’s topics

• Slides count

• The Brain

• Significance

• Structure

• Simplicity

• Preparation

Everyone’s got an opinionPowerPoint rules that will save your sanity!PowerPoint rules that will save your sanity!

Everyone’s got an opinionPowerPoint rules that will save your sanity!

Guy Kawasaki’s 10/20/30 Rule

Guy Kawasaki’s 10/20/30 Rule3 rules to successful PowerPoint presentations

PowerPoint rules that will save your sanity!

The 6 steps to PowerPoint success

3 rules to successful PowerPoint presentations

The 6 steps to PowerPoint successNo more than 5 slides!

The 7 x 7 rule

The 5 cardinal PowerPoint rules

The 7 x 7 rule

Speak it! Image slides only, no words

The 7 x 7 rule

7 simple PowerPoint rules

The 7 x 7 rule

The 5 rules for PowerPoint presentations that don’t suck

7 simple PowerPoint rules

There are 300 million PowerPoint users in the world

There do 30 million presentations each day

About 10 million presentations are going on right now

About *50 percentOf them are unbearable

*conservative estimate

WHY are they doing it?

Let’s make the world a better place

The Brain

Attention: We don’t pay attention to boring things

The Brain

Attention: We don’t pay attention to boring things

EntertainYour

Audience

The Brain

Short term memory: Repeat to remember

The Brain

Short term memory: Repeat to remember

Repeat to remember

The Brain

Long term memory: Remember to repeat

The Brain

Long term memory: Remember to repeat

Practice

The Brain

Vision: Vision trumps all other senses

Hear it, and three days later you'll remember 10% of it.

The Brain

Vision: Vision trumps all other senses

Hear it, and three days later you'll remember 10% of it.

Add a picture and you'll remember 65%.

Significance

• Why are you presenting?

To pass along information?

Because your boss told you too?

Or to create meaning?

Significance

• Why are you presenting?

Can’t find the meaning?

STOP! Cancel your presentation

• The message

Structure

Scalable

Convincing

Memorable

Structure• The format

Easy to read

Uncluttered

Simplicity

Simplicity Good

Simplicity

Preparation

Practice, practice, practice

Get some feedback

Preparation

Check your room and equipment

Preparation

Turn off your Instant Messenger!!!

Thoughts…

PowerPoint helps to:Visualize ideas

Emphasize key

points

Impress

Thoughts…

Hand outs? At the end

Title slides are important

Include the date

Include contact info for external audiences

Let your web audience know they are in the right place

Thanks for coming!

Hope you enjoyed it!

Questions…

Additional resourcesPresentation Zen http://www.presentationzen.com/ Presentation Zen PowerPoint article http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/09/whats_good_powe.htmlArticle on the 10/20/30 rule http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/1056/Steve-Jobs-Guy-Kawasaki-Powerpoint-Best-Practices.aspxOnenorthwest best practcies article http://www.onenw.org/toolkit/powerpoint-best-practicesUniverstiy of Oregon PowerPoint best practices: http://www.uoregon.edu/~tep/technology/powerpoint/docs/presenting.pdfTurpin Communications artticle http://www.turpincommunication.com/articles/pptbestpractices.htm

Powerpoint tips--Don't put your audience to sleep!

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