This document provides tips for avoiding ineffective PowerPoint presentations. It advises that presenters should not rely too heavily on slides and should instead engage directly with their audience. Key tips include focusing on speaking to the audience rather than reading slides, keeping slides concise by removing unnecessary content like clipart, and making the presentation a conversation rather than a lecture through techniques like asking questions. The goal is to make the presentation worthwhile for attendees rather than putting them through a dull slideshow.

1. How To Avoid
Death By PowerPoint
A no-nonsense guide to common presentation crimes
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2. You’re the presenter, not PowerPoint
People don’t come to watch a slideshow.
They want to hear and see you tell them something.
Quit using PowerPoint as a crutch!

3. Stop reading from your slides
If you’re going to read from your slides then why turn up at all?
You might as well just hand out your presentation to the audience and
be done with it.

4. Stop filling your slides with crap
Don’t post up stuff that just repeats what you’ll be saying anyway

5. Ditch the clip-art
If you’ve got a photo or a chart you need to show, that’s fine.
Don’t fill your slides with lightbulbs, people shaking hands, archery
targets, etc.

6. Guns don’t kill people, bullet points do
If you list is long enough to need bullet points then it’s too long for your
slide.
Break it up into several slides, speak it or ditch it.

7. Give a damn
A whole bunch of people have gone out of their way to see you.
Make it worth it for them.
Tell them something they really need to know.

8. Engage with your audience
You’re not an automata and neither are they.
Make it a conversation, not a lecture.
Talk to the front row, ask them a question, do a ParticiPoll poll.

9. Get Help
For lots more tricks and tips go to….
http://www.participoll.com/powerpoint-presentation-tips/
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