The Art of Powerpoint Presentations

I know most of you have had this experience of pulling together a 30-slider Powerpoint deck from all sorts of resources, inserting images, putting in animation transitions, the stuff--and had to present it to a group of 10 people who could care less about your resources, images, and animations because from among the 30 slides, only 4 slides would most likely matter to them.

I think this is the art of Powerpoint presentations.

Blog author Joey De Villa of Globalnerdy.com has pooled together a (creative) summary of how one could present a deck without having to bore the audience to death and actually make them listen to what you have to say. Excerpts from his entry state that:

"Your slides are not cue cards. The purpose of standing in front of an audience is not to read aloud a document written in point form. You’re there not only to communicate an idea, but to engage the people in the room as well; the slides are there as support. That’s why slide presentation software has “presenter mode”, where the slides are displayed on the projector and your notes are displayed on your laptop."

To read the rest of the post, click here.

How about you? What are your Powerpoint eye candies?

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