Creating Powerful Slides for your Big Marker Webinar

1. Morgan Summerfield Presents… Creating Powerful Slides for your Big Marker Webinar

2. Rules of the Road • I will have everyone on mute to start. • We will not be using video today. • Please don’t chat with others in the chat feature once the presentation begins.

3. Be respectful of others. The presenter has the option to remove individuals from the conference who create a disturbance or who are discourteous to others.

4. So we may maintain our timeline, Please… • Hold all questions until the end. Write down your questions. • If you are having technical issues, click on the big ? in the upper right corner of your screen for online help.

5. About Me • Taught information design • Paper based • Web based • Trained presenters • In the writing ‘biz’ for many years • Published author • Multiple website manager

6. Agenda • What should a slide do? • What makes a bad slide? • What makes a good slide? • Choose Your Style • General Recommendations • Tips • What program should I use? • What format should I use? • Questions

7. Bad vs. Good

8. What should a slide do? • Create a sense of welcome • Support the subject • Enhance the presentation • Provide focus for attendees • Foster clarity/understanding

9. What makes a bad slide? • Clutter • Contradictions • Poor Readability • Too Much Verbiage

10. What makes a good slide? • Components that Contribute • White Space • Readability • Color

12. What makes a good slide? • Components that Contribute • White Space • Readability • Color • Consistency • Key Speaking Points

13. What NOT to do on a slide. Don’t let your ‘ego’ or your ‘artist’ create the presentation on their own. It will take cooperation from all your talents to create something that is readable and consistent that supports your ideas/concepts and actually helps the individual watching/listening understand what you are trying to convey. As you can see this slide color is not a good choice, nor is the font style/size/color. Where is the white space? Where are my contributing supporters? Is this my script? What happened to my audience. Ooops! They have left the presentation. Drat!

14. What makes a good slide?

15. What makes a good slide? ONLY things that CONTRIBUTE to the message, point, idea, concept, suggestion, or learning should be on that slide.

16. What makes a good slide? ONLY things that CONTRIBUTE to the message, point, idea, concept, suggestion, or learning should be on the slide. Always ask yourself, IS IT RELEVANT?

17. Make a Plan

18. Choosing Your Style • Think about what you are presenting. • Establish a master slide using • Colors • Images • Fonts • Why establish a master slide?

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20. Saves Time Ensures Consistency

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22. First Steps • Indoor faucets • Outdoor water jacks • Toilets • Water pipes • Septic tank • Gray water

23. Quarterly Returns

24. The Benefits of Elevator Music • Masks conversation • Keeps people calm • Prevents conversation • Makes people sleepy • Prevents people from hearing the gears squeak • Allows people quiet time • Drives the pizza delivery kid crazy

25. The most valuable information in the world is worthless if no one receives it. No way I am going back in there! World Peace

26. Rules of Thumb

27. General Recommendations • White Background/Dark Lettering Cool but uncommon. Cool but uncommon. Cool but uncommon. Cool but uncommon.

28. So we may maintain our timeline, Please… • Hold all questions until the end. Write down your questions. • If you are having technical issues, click on the big ? In the upper right corner of your screen for online help.

29. General Recommendations • No More than Two Distinct Font Styles The quick red fox jumped over the sleepingbrown dog. As the farmer chased the fox, he tripped over the dog and fell on his face.

30. General Recommendations • Plenty of White Space • Don’t Overload

31. General Recommendations • Graphics That Support or Add Interest

32. General Recommendations • Change It Up Graphic Graphic Graphic Graphic Graphic

33. General Recommendations • Proof Read

34. General Recommendations • Proof read • Check PDF Conversion

35. General Recommendations • Test Drive

36. Nuts and Bolts

37. Word Tips • Use ‘Page Layout’ to change page orientation to landscape. • Use ‘Insert’ to create a table to quadrant your page. • When you insert MOST graphics, the ‘Format’ tab automatically opens.

38. PowerPoint Tips – newer versions • Use the ‘Design’ tab to set up your master. • Use the ‘Insert’ tab to add clip art, photos, shapes, etc. • Use ‘Slide Show’ to see how your slide will look and ‘View’ to changeto‘Notes Pages.’

39. General Tips • Help them ‘keep up’

40. General Tips • Help them ‘keep up • Give information a chance to ‘fix’

41. General Tips • Help them ‘keep up • Give information a chance to ‘fix’ • Give the presentation ‘wake up’ moments.

42. General Tips • Help them ‘keep up • Give information a chance to ‘fix’ • Give the presentation ‘wake up’ moments.

43. The Home Stretch

44. What program should I use?

45. Whatever you are most comfortable using.

46. What format should I use? • For the purposes of your Big Marker webinar, convert your file to PDF. • This is the upload format that Big Marker recommends. • It creates an image that remains constant and is not easily subject to corruption.

48. Questions • If you have a question, now is the time. Please raise your hand (click on the little hand icon in the lower left corner of screen). • When I call on you, you may either type your question in the chat box or use your microphone.

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