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Friday, June 19, 2009
Below I summarize some of his main points at a glance. (1) Getting Started • Choose a topic for which you have great passion. Felix uses note cards and paper clips to capture and organize his ideas. • Remember: "it's about removing, not adding, content" in this phase. • "Just because your slides are in sequence, it doesn't mean they have to be linear." (2) Slide design tips • Use large images (he gives links to his favorite image websites) . • Use as little text as possible. • "The slide should be an addition to, not a summary of, your ideas and concepts."
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Friday, June 12, 2009
First, organizing the content of the presentation and second, creating slides to go with it.
Organize the content
Slides containing mainly text.
It’s probably the main reason most presentations go on too long. 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.
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
The BBP story template helps you organize and outline your thoughts for a presentation before working with PowerPoint.
Act I sets up your story with key elements to identify the setting, main character and conflict. The easiest one: main character. I recently created a presentation on the value of Twitter to businesses, and worked through the sequence of Act I: the Setting, Role, Point A, Point B and Call to Action slides.
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
Level 1 - The Organized Opening
If you’re a beginner or very nervous, demonstrate that you’re prepared and organized. Key Message: Here’s the main thing I want you to take away from my presentation: [give key message of your presentation]
Once you’ve got the Organized Opening mastered, step up to the Story Opening.
I get frustrated at presentation advice which says you have to do something clever or dramatic at the beginning of a presentation to grab your audience’s attention. That’s for three reasons:
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
We talk a lot about organizing our content, main points, opening and closing, but we rarely talk about how to get from one segment to the next. They're like links in a chain that keep your presentation cohesive and organized. Repeat and recap the main point you just covered. How do you handle the spaces in between your points, stories, examples, and exercises? These are your transitions .
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
But everyone else in your organization stubbornly sticks to the bullet-point slides. In many organizations, bullet-point slides are the way presentations are done. They help the audience grasp and remember the main points because of the visual emphasis they’ve been given. Many organizations stick to bullet-point You’ve read Presentation Zen and Slideology and you’re convinced about the benefits of using visually-engaging PowerPoint slides when you present. How can you persuade them to change their minds?
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Design your speech around your POV, using the rule of three to organize your message.
Deliver your speech from these main talking points, allowing your communication to flow naturally from the structure you've created. The only way to communicate naturally is from the heart and mind, using key points to keep your message organized and on track.
The Decker Grid System™ i s an excellent tool for designing a simple, natural and downright perfect speech. Simple.
Natural.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Organize your story Remember that your teacher and classmates want you to tell the story of what you have done. Whether it is a report on a book you read, an animal you researched or an experiment in science, organize your story into a logical flow of ideas. Create an agenda slide that will help your audience know what areas you will be covering (this also helps you organize your information). Recently a friend, Beverly, asked if I could please give some advice that elementary school kids could use when preparing PowerPoint presentations for class. For those of you who
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
You embarras yourself and your organization. Again, it looks like we have to educate many presenters on the basics of preparing to communicate a message. Non-professional graphics and use of animation While these areas were covered partially by the main question on the survey, the third most popular area of comments dealt with the graphics and animation that makes the presenter look silly. Every organization who pays a design professional (in-house or from the outside) to create a PowerPoint template must ensure that they I’ve already reported on what audiences find most annoying based on the survey completed by 548 people.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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