The reality is that PowerPoint is culture, and at any organization it is a specific culture of pre-determined templates, fonts and expectations. I recently gave a pilot workshop at a large corporation that is considering adopting BBP training on a wide scale. I asked the group where they are with their current PowerPoint approach, and where they would like to be, and they came up with this list:

It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points. The majority of the presentations that I see have text in a ten point font. The reason people use a small font is twofold: first, that they don’t know their material well enough; second, they think that more text is more convincing. How to Change the World A practical blog for impractical people. « A Brief History of Mine | Main | Resolution Assistance » December 30, 2005 The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint I suffer from something called Ménière’s disease—don’t worry, you cannot get it from reading my blog.

Bill wrote a good book in 2007 called Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design. There are a few other download options on their site here , including the actual (gulp) PowerPoint deck (sans Bill's special font). Displaying the presenter & the visual simultaneously Below are a few screen captures from the website. You may not have heard of Bill Buxton yet, but the Canadian designer and computer scientist is well known in the field of human–computer interaction. Currently he

Turn on the following palettes: Inspector, colors, and fonts. Me, I put the inspector and colors next to each other with fonts below. Explore the Inspector The use of color and font palettes is obvious, but you probably don’t know everything which is going down in the inspector. Simple, clean, and easy. Ok, back to work. # June 4, 2007 : Comments (5) (c) 2002-2009 home tech life management vegas glossary archives about Tech Life Simple, clean, and easy Keynote Kung-fu It’s WWDC season and that means Keynote .

Looks to me as if you can page forward with only one thumb or finger, leaving another hand free to gesture. -See your speech text in sunlight or indoors: No-glare screens that lack a computer backlight make it possible to read your text in any setting. -Adjust to large-type settings: Six font sizes allow you to create the display you can best see. I'm looking forward to testing the Kindle with our trainees and for my own upcoming speeches, and will report back here. My speaker trainings help you learn how to speak eloquently and without notes where possible, but for many speeches, a text is essential...and

8221; 43Folders.com is Merlin Mann ’s website about finding the time and attention to do your best creative work. How I Made My Presentations a Little Better Merlin Mann | Aug 23 2007 Since my Google Tech Talk ( previously ) caught fire last month (it’s gotten over 100,000 views so far), I’ve been receiving a lot of really nice email, comments, and questions about how I put my presentations together. At least until you’re more comfortable with what you want to say,

1.      Contrast (imagine someone wearing black pearls against a black dress): Contrast includes using color, font size, bold, italic, etc. 4.      Proximity (grouping like things together…imagine a restaurant menu with one line spacing and font size): The proximity of tables, boxes, white space, etc. 2007 vs. On the Road: My Experience Teaching PowerPoint   This is a guest post from Kirk Mossing, PowerPoint™ Consultant and Trainer.  

Then in PPT 2007 I added the TLC logo, a radial gradient shape under the logo to help it have contrast and be visible and finally created the text using PPT 2007 gradient fill options. The The text is a custom font (Albert, which is license restricted so not embedded - will default to some other font on your computer...). I had a few emails asking about the 4th of July post. I

did not open a 3D graphics program for the 'Labor Day' text, but PPT 2007. Uses a custom font that is embedded, so everyone should see the slide as created. If you are in the U.S. - Happy Labor Day! It is a day of rest and honoring our labor and that of others around us.

With PowerPoint 2007, you have access to more than 150 example slides complete with detailed instructions for recreating the effects with PowerPoint. To download the example presentations from PowerPoint 2007: - You can copy the example slides into an existing presentation, recolor the graphics, change fonts, and replace pictures and text. Many, many thanks to Julie Terberg of Terberg Design for being a guest author on ThePowerPointBlog! ............................... Sometimes Sometimes you need a little inspiration when developing a presentation.