Creating Better Presentations: A practical guide

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  • + abhishekshah Abhishek Shah 2 years ago
    Amazing stuff!!! Thanks for sharing the same.
  • + Lenze Philippe C 2 years ago
    Thanks for sharing your precious advices. like it :) Phil
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  1. Creating better presentations A practical guide
    • You’ve probably been through a million similar presentations
    • So I am going to quickly skim through the concepts
    • … but my main objective, is to point you to tools that allow you to implement these concepts
    • Concept 1: Determine one theme to focus your presentation on
    • Concept 2: Use striking / professional quality images and graphs
    • Concept 3: Understand the basics of color (what colors combine well, what don’t)
    • Concept 4: Not more than 3-4 bullets per slide
    • (damnit, already crossed 4 bullets)
    • Coming to Point 1: “Creating a theme”
    • Just to take this presntation as an example: The theme is, well, how to create better presentations
    • (now that wasn’t so hard was it…)
    Point 1: Creating a theme
    • But that probably is not too much help to you…
    • You probably want to create a serious  presentation, and not one on a lame topic like ‘Creating better presentations’
    • In that case, its best to start with the problem that you are trying to solve
    • For example (serious on this time) – if the your product is … a new diet pill
    • start by describing the 1000’s of ailments are caused due to excess cholesterol
    • ( obviously, you may want to stay away from the millions of ailments caused by of bad medication)
    • anyway, moving on
    • Coming to point 2: “Using striking images, charts and fonts”
    • “ But where on earth do I get these striking images”
    • There are tons of stock photo sites out there
    • “ Wow, that’s really cool”
    • “ Hey wait a sec”
    • “ I got to pay for this? you got to be kidding me”
    • Actually, yes, I was kidding you
    • No stupid site is going to get even a cent out of my pocket
    • There are free alternatives too (that are quite cool)
    • Next comes, errr, graphs
    • How on earth… could anyone… come up with a graph templates so… (damnit don’t even have words for it)
    • Easy alternatives seem, well, a limited
    • Google docs seems a little better (though still not too great or flexible)
    • So, the hunt is still on for a better graphing tool (feel free to mails me if you think you know of a decent graphing tool)
    Adobe Illustrator seems to be one of the better options (but obviously – you and I are not going to be able to use that)
    • Concept 3 – color
    • So, you have got a great image, and have everything else in place as well
    • So why does you slide still look like…
    • “ Is this supposed to be my brilliant slide???”
    • Mmm, not really – but you can make it a lot better by adding a transparent text placeholder on top of the image… like this
    • Or by restricting the image to one part of the page… as shown here
    • But no matter which approach you follow, you would need to understand the basic c o l o r concepts
    • Are the colors of the various images and font matching with each other?
    • This can be learnt by searching up ‘color tutorial’ on google
    • One site that I found quite helpful was http://www.worqx.com/color/
    • That’s it from my side…

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