Re: it's been a while since we discussed the use of PowerPoint in meetings

"Mukom Akong T." <mukom.tamon@gmail.com> Mon, 31 March 2014 02:55 UTC

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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 06:54:50 +0400
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If a presenter is bad, no tool can rescue him (PowerPoint or Keynote or
Prezi or etc etc). The problem is that most people were never taught (or
took the time to learn) how to present to an audience. There are really
simple rules of effective presentation and the tool (PowerPoint vs Keynote
etc) is insignificant .

What the organisers could do to help speakers is to present presentation
guidelines for speakers

a) No more than X slides per 15 minutes

b) Minimum font size (I personally don't go below 25 for bullets and 18 for
text on a diagram)

c) Good visuals (as most of the talks might be about networking ... the
organisers could commission a designer to provide standard elements to be
used in presentations ... router, switch, server etc. But then you can get
all of that from free from openclipart.org)

d) A ration of text : graphic slides. (I personally try to have every other
slide be graphic/illustration .... but I'd say 1 graphic slide to every 4
is ok)

e) Maximum number of bullets points per slide ( 5 - 7 max)

For those who might be interested. Nancy Duarte (a presentations expert)
released an online copy of her book "Resonate" for free. Find it at
http://resonate.duarte.com

And yes .... slides are not the only way to present and not every
presentation must be in the format of slides.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Tony Hansen <tony@att.com> wrote:

> I ran into this article and felt it worth sharing:
>
> Physicists, Generals And CEOs Agree: Ditch The PowerPoint
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/03/16/
> 288796805/physicists-generals-and-ceos-agree-ditch-the-powerpoint
>
> Actually, the article is not all one sided -- it does also discuss some
> times when they feel that PowerPoint *is* useful.
>
>     Tony Hansen
>
>

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Mukom Akong T.

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