Avoid these and your presentations will serve the audience—and that’s just what it’s supposed to do.   1.      Dense sentences in small (6-8) point font : If you have to make your font that tiny to get all the information on the slide, you’re saying too much.   3.      Impenetrable number slides: Numbers are important elements of a business presentation; but when they appear in long columns of 6 point font they do nothing but overwhelm an audience.     Part 1: The Seven Deadly Sins   During the last month I have

Today, our current approach to PowerPoint is: - Overloading our audiences with too much information - Throwing in everything but the kitchen sink - Just doing a data dump - Usually not communicating a good story - Being too generic - one deck fits all - Not succeeding at helping an audience remember key messages - Creating decks that don't get used, or just one or two slides are pulled - Not producing a crisp communication package Where would we like to be is a place where we: - Find a better approach for internal and external presentations - Tell a clear story - Increase our audiences'

They worry about slide templates, images, movies, fonts, clothes, hair and the rest, forgetting to do the harder and more important work of thinking deeply about what points they want to make. If speaker evaluations have been gathered, ask the host for the data that shows how you compared to other speakers. Scott Berkun speaking at the Web2.0 Expo 2009.

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If necessary, add a short title or data point Not every slide can be one singular image. Just try to keep the text to a minimum and the font to a legible type and size. When bullet points are entered on a slide, presenters will often put as many as they can fit, resulting in font sizes nearing single digits. If you’ve read any of my previous posts , you’ll know that the cornerstone to an effective PowerPoint or Keynote presentation is idea of “Simplicity.” Keeping your slides as simple and image-based as possible will keep your audience visually engaged

What is uncommon, however, is the tool with which the font was created: the vehicle itself: By outfitting the car with brightly colored markers above each of its wheels, an overhead camera was able to precisely record its movements and transform the path into vector data representing each glyph. Earlier this year, Toyota commissioned the design of a custom typeface to promote the release of the iQ–a car manlier than Andre the Giant doing donuts in a dump truck on the deck of a pirate ship while AC/DC performs “Highway to Hell” in the back. In and of itself,

B.      Put the bulk of your data in speaker notes AND 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. On the Road: My Experience Teaching PowerPoint   This is a guest post from Kirk Mossing, PowerPoint™ Consultant and Trainer.  

You can manipulate fonts, layouts and colors to achieve customized outputs. From another research lab at IBM comes Many Eyes , a project to "create information visualizations that help people collectively make sense of data." At this site, you can upload your data and then choose from a large selection of graphic representations to display the data. In many presentations, a thousand words is what it feels like as slide after bullet point-laden slide goes by. When I teach and consult on how to use PowerPoint effectively, I always encourage people to ditch the bullet points

The New York Times introduced me recently to the Many Eyes site, a new site that helps you create unusual visualizations of data--a treasure trove for those speakers who need charts and graphs that don't look like standard-issue bars and cones. You can let the program decide for you or tweak fonts, sizes or even which words are included. One tool on the site that's equally useful for speakers: Wordle , which lets you create innovative word "clouds" that give prominent placement and size to words used more frequently . (The The image here is a Wordle of recent posts on

Long ago, in a land far, far away, someone decided that a presentation could not be taken seriously unless it was accompanied by a PowerPoint chock full of text, bullet points, charts, data and citations. So let me post again some resources on making your PowerPoint more effective with more images and less text: New research about PowerPoint titles Why you can't read slides and listen to a speaker at the same time Is the font on your PowerPoint big enough? I've heard this several times from clients who've come to me for help with their slide shows: "My boss/conference organizer/client wants me to take all the images out of the PowerPoint.