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    This document provides tips for improving PowerPoint presentations. It notes that most people use PowerPoint poorly by simply reading text-heavy slides. This leads to audiences feeling bored and disconnected from the presenter. Instead, the document recommends keeping presentations simple with minimal text, images, and animations. It suggests using techniques like PechaKucha, which limits slides to 20 seconds each, to keep the audience engaged. The overall message is that PowerPoint should enhance a presentation or conversation, not replace it, by emphasizing the presenter and key ideas over bullet points and clip art.

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    This document provides tips for improving PowerPoint presentations. It notes that most people use PowerPoint poorly by simply reading text-heavy slides. This leads to audiences feeling bored and disconnected from the presenter. Instead, the document recommends keeping presentations simple with minimal text, images, and animations. It suggests using techniques like PechaKucha, which limits slides to 20 seconds each, to keep the audience engaged. The overall message is that PowerPoint should enhance a presentation or conversation, not replace it, by emphasizing the presenter and key ideas over bullet points and clip art.

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    Deathbypowerpoint

    Uploaded by

    Arlene Vasquez
    This document provides tips for improving PowerPoint presentations. It notes that most people use PowerPoint poorly by simply reading text-heavy slides. This leads to audiences feeling bored and disconnected from the presenter. Instead, the document recommends keeping presentations simple with minimal text, images, and animations. It suggests using techniques like PechaKucha, which limits slides to 20 seconds each, to keep the audience engaged. The overall message is that PowerPoint should enhance a presentation or conversation, not replace it, by emphasizing the presenter and key ideas over bullet points and clip art.

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    Death by PowerPoint

    Seriously?
    You can do better
    How most people
    use PowerPoint
    How most people look
    using PowerPoint
    How most people feel
    about PowerPoint
    PowerPoint
    should feel like this
    PowerPoint could be the most
    powerful tool on your computer…

    but it’s not


    - Seth Godin
    Forgive them Father,
    for they know not
    what they do.

    and the Lord said


    it was bad.
    “Relax, all right?
    My old man is a television
    repairman, he's got this
    ultimate set of tools.
    I can fix it.”
    Life’s too short for
    death by PowerPoint
    Do’s, Don’ts,
    Hacks, Tips,
    Tricks, Tactics,
    & Techniques
    for better
    PowerPoint
    presentation
    presentation or
    or conversation
    conversation
    nobody wants to
    watch you reading
    bullets kill people
    WHATTHEF
    ONT?
    One logo
    is enough
    “If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe,
    put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation
    or investigating aromatherapy.” – Nancy Duarte
    Cut the Clip Art
    Us The 14
    Others

    g
    Them
    a
    NOISE

    d
    h
    b More
    e

    c f i

    CONFUSION
    Make charts & graphs
    Meaningful

    Charts & Graphs

    99%
    suck
    Kids today consume 5 times more fast
    food than kids in 1970

    1970 2009
    30% eat fast
    food
    You’re
    every day supersizing us
    ZING!

    NO SOUND
    EFFECTS or
    SOCK!
    ANIMATIONS!
    keep it simple

    stupid
    Simple tips from:
    Seth Godin
    0 bullets

    1 point

    words, words,
    6 words words, words,
    words, words.
    Simple tips from:
    Guy Kawasaki
    10 slides

    20 minutes

    30 pt Font abc
    Guy Kawasaki
    Simple method:
    PechaKucha
    20 slides

    20 seconds

    6.6 minutes
    step by step
    decide where
    you’re going
    write it down, and draw it up
    Death By PowerPoint
    Unplugged
    outline
    storyboard
    Slides

    Notes

    Handouts deliverables
    Balancing content
    The Human Brain
    Facts Ideas

    Process Feelings
    Practice
    check yourself
    Find your
    voice
    have fun
    Thanks!
    David E. Bowman
    Marketing Manager, LUCRUM
    http://lucruminc.com
    http://davidebowman.com
    Photo Credits
    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/annguyenphoto
    graphy/3268547290/sizes/l/
    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/perfectoinsecto
    /1593972902/
    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/visualpanic/199
    6389857/sizes/l/
    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/powi/21858094
    67/sizes/o/

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