This works best with a PowerPoint slide with a plain background with your message written on it in a clear font in a large point size. This is also effective for single numbers and statistics. There’s a revolution in the design of PowerPoint slides, but not the delivery. Most speakers still rely on their slides to cue them.

For more details on this study including the “conditions” of the experiment and the statistical results see Michael Alley’s article ). Then put each assertion on it’s own slide in a large sans-serif font on a plain background. You’ve read Presentation Zen and Slideology and you’re convinced about the benefits of using visually-engaging PowerPoint slides when you present. But everyone else in your organization stubbornly sticks to the bullet-point slides.

SlideRocket also integrates statistics, so you know how many people have experienced your content. When I used each of these programs to create a presentation from scratch, I noted a few feature differences in each application. SlideRocket 280 Slides Google Docs Presentations 5 background options 9 background options 15 background options 6 Flash backgrounds no Flash backgrounds no Flash backgrounds 9 slide transition options 0 transition options 0 transition options FlickR integration FlickR +Google Images integration No FlickR integration

Statistics and numbers If your visual slides come from different presentations, you may find that they are using varying backgrounds, fonts, image styles. In a perfect world, every new presentation would be prepared from scratch, tailored exactly to the specific audience. But in reality, you sometimes have to cobble together a “new presentation” from pre-existing material.

Slides with a short one or two-word title, statistics, diagrams, or quotes can be effective. 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

or "Dont put paragraphs of text on slides, causing you to shrink the font by 12 points in order to fit them all on the slide, and then stand there and read them."? Support your arguments with evidence: facts, naratives, statistics, metaphors... HTH Post a comment Name: Anonymous Email Address: Comments (you may use HTML tags for Boing Boing Home Gadgets TV Boing Boing Offworld Suggest a Link Archives Subscribe Mark Cory David Xeni John Moderation Policy Excellent public speaking advice Posted by Cory Doctorow , March 8, 2009 4:01 AM | permalink The inestimable Duncan Davidson, photographer laureate of the OReilly tech conferences, has distilled his experiences watching thousands of speakers on thousands of stages into a pithy, useful article about how to be a better

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? Don't fool yourself into thinking that the more statistic- and text-laden your PowerPoint is, the more effective it will be. 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. He says they're

Graphs are designed (correctly) in 2D, with different graph types in order to highlight different types of statistical information.  Effective, on-brand fonts are included to create uniformity. The majority of PowerPoint templates are terrible.  I'm referring to the default templates found within PowerPoint and Keynote, as well as those created by design firms that don't specialize in presentation design.