PPT - Powerful Presentation Techniques

Good Presentation on Death to Bad PPT

Alexei Kapterev has put together a good presentation that is available on SlideShare providing some guidelines to making your presentation more effective. He suggests focusing on 4 items -

1. Significance
2. Structure
3. Simplicity
4. Rehearsal

The slide show provides a quick view of 61 slides that you can watch here.

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Hat tip to Seattle PI, The Biz Bite blogger Whitney Keyes post "How to Give a Great Presentation". 

Presentation Slide Guidelines Podcast

Jean Luc Doumont presents a useful podcast on the IEEE web site offering 3 simple guidelines for effective slides.  His 3 simple guidelines are the following:

1. Do slides right or not at all
2. State message in title of slide, develop body as visually as possible 
   
   Interestingly he suggests using up to 12 words in your title and up to two lines of title text typically including a verb.  As he says it's the "so what" not the what.  He also suggests limiting the corporate or organizational logos to the title and conclusion slide to reduce the visual clutter.  These art two suggestions that I could argue with him given the presenter's objectives and .
3. Be concise verbally & visually or as he states "suppress, suppress"

Happy slide preparing!

Hat Tip to Margaret McDonald and her article in the Coloradoan.