Making Your Presentation Fly...
- You Are The Show: If you are delivering a presentation
to a group, you just can't put enough emphasis on a confident, smooth
delivery. You
have some words and images on a screen to help you out, but you are
the real show. Your message is the reason that you are there. Talking
to your audience (and respecting their intelligence) makes for much
more effective, memorable and convincing presentation than does hurredly
reading through a succession of slides.
- Background Choice: Ever notice that two-thirds of the slide
making public uses the same dark blue background and generally
the same 25 stock backgrounds that come with PowerPoint? Being distinctive
helps create memorability -- just like in real life. Choice of background
color and design should contrast well with your choice of type. When
designed for projection, darker colored backgrounds with lighter
type generally work well.
- Glitter and Spark: Sure we love the shiny stuff,
but if you have a dull point, no amount of technological wizardry,
flaming icons or multi-colored text is going to salvage your point.
A well written and rehearsed talk is the most critical elemet of
any presentation.
- The Stretchies: Be sure that when you use a piece
of art or photo in PowerPoint that you retain the correct height-width
proportion. You can check this by looking at the "Format Picture"
setting and being sure that the two percentages are the same. It's
easy to stretch a placed image out of correct proportion, so keep
down the "shift" key when you scale the item and it' should retain
the right proportion.
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