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Tiny Fonts. Big Words. Bored Audiences.

Learn how to captivate your audience with this practical guide for delivering your best presentation ever. Avoid common pitfalls, keep it simple, and make it all about your audience. Get ready to impress with engaging content, visually appealing slides, and confident delivery. This guide will help you stand out at the GPA Conference in September 2012.

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Tiny Fonts. Big Words. Bored Audiences.

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  1. Tiny Fonts. Big Words. Bored Audiences. A practical guide for delivering your best presentation, well, ever. GPA Conference, Sept. 2012

  2. #1 Brevity You can only digest so much information at one time.

  3. Conferences Cause Blindness • Poor graphic resolution • Illegible graphic text • Too small charts • Too small text • Too much text

  4. Slides for you Bad

  5. Or Confusion… • Too much stuff • No point • Crowded

  6. Slides for you Bad

  7. #2 KISS • Keep • It • Simple • Stupid

  8. Good

  9. #3 It’s About Them

  10. Goal: Avoid This

  11. Yellow cartoon guy

  12. #4 Content: Have a Point • “Save us millions” • “Improve connectivity” • “Get compliant ASAP”

  13. Beginning, Middle & End

  14. When in Doubt, Leave it Out

  15. What’s In It for Me? Er, Them. • Save $$ • Be environmentally responsible • Good ROI for tax-payers

  16. Ask Good Questions • Make it relevant • Make it personal

  17. Pop Quiz • Rule #1 – not too long, observe time • Rule #2 – simple to understand • Rule #3 – It’s about THEM! • Rule #4 – the Main point

  18. Coming Soon

  19. Good

  20. Slides for you Bad

  21. Slides for you Ugly

  22. The Power of Images

  23. Visual Aids • Color – use red/yellow sparingly • Background – light • Graphics – clean, high quality • Fonts – sans serif & not too many • Animation/Transitions – simple & few

  24. Good

  25. Good

  26. The Standing O

  27. Practice! • In the mirror • Time yourself • Practice animations

  28. Ask for Help! • Graphics • Practice • Tech support

  29. Sound Check. Not Just for Rock Stars. • Get there early • Plan for video/audio ahead of time • Be ready to adjust, if necessary

  30. The Ideal http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/05/best-powerpoint-presentations-in-world.html

  31. What’s Your Struggle? (Here’s where you raise your hand to participate.)

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