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samedi 18 mai 2013

[Utile] How Can I Make My PowerPoint Presentations Amazing?


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[...] Avoid the Most Common Presentation Problems



First, before we take a look at jazzing up your slides, it's a good time to review how to avoid the reasons presentations suck so often.

Lack of preparation or passion. [...]
Slides are too complex, overloaded with bullets, lacking in focus, and/or filled with poor quality images. [...]

Seth Godin's five rules for avoiding really bad PowerPoints are a good guide:
  1. No more than six words on a slide. EVER. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken. [Also recommended in another post: No bullets. Use a separate slide for each sentence or idea.]
  2. No cheesy images. Use professional stock photo images.
  3. No dissolves, spins or other transitions.
  4. Sound effects can be used a few times per presentation, but never use the sound effects that are built into the program. [...]
  5. Don’t hand out print-outs of your slides. They don’t work without you there.
Similarly, for our guide on how to create presentations that don't suck, communications expert Nancy Duarte offered this helpful mnemonic to keep in mind as you're making your slides:
Simplify
Lose the cliches
Information needs emphasis
Designate elements
Empathy for the audience [...]
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