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PowerPoint slide design

The Top 10 PowerPoint slides from Slideshare

August 22, 2008

Slidesharing sites like Slideshare and Slideboom are a great place to get inspiration on PowerPoint slide design. You can see different ideas and adapt them for your own presentations. Slideshare is currently running the World’s Best Presentation Contest (see footnote) which has some great examples of PowerPoint slide design. To save you time I’ve picked [...]

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Are you missing out on half the power of your PowerPoint slides?

July 3, 2008

If you use your PowerPoint slides as your notes, you’re missing out on half the power of your slides. To make the most of them, dance with your slides. Dancing with the slides means that you and your slides are partners in creating the presentation experience for your audience. Sometimes you will be doing the talking, [...]

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The top four things I learnt from Garr Reynolds’ workshop

July 1, 2008

Garr Reynolds ran a day-long workshop yesterday in Wellington, New Zealand. I’ve devoured his blog, poured over his book and I was very excited about attending this workshop. Here are the top four things I came away with. 1. Beauty matters Garr’s workshop was an aesthetic experience. His slides nourished my visual sense. It was like going to a contemporary art or [...]

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Six ways to take charge of what your audience remembers

June 27, 2008

We ask people on our courses what they remember from the last presentation they went to. Typically they either remember nothing, or a random point or story that the presenter told. So when you’re presenting, take charge of what your audience remembers. Here are six ways to do that: 1. Focus your presentation around one Key Message [...]

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PowerPoint slide design – adding elegance

June 9, 2008

In my last post, I gave some basic advice on PowerPoint slide design. Now let’s add some elegance. 1. When you add text to a photo, make sure it is easy to read. You can add a mask (a rectangle of partly transparent colour) between the text and the photo. In the example below right [...]

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PowerPoint slide design – the basics

June 8, 2008

I am not a designer. I was awakened to the possibility of improving the design of my PowerPoint slides by the Presentation Zen blog. Since then I have observed and analyzed examples of good design, even read some design books – and of course read the Presentation Zen book. These design tips are not for [...]

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The best PowerPoint slide format

May 13, 2008

On our training courses, participants get that bullet-point slides are not effective. But some people are resistant because they know how to do bullet-point slides and it’s easy. We use this series of slides to show the alternatives and how they stack up against each other. [kml_flashembed movie="http://speakingaboutpresenting.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/powerpoint-time.swf" height="300" width="550" /]