A presentation on how to plan and prepare precise presentations. Part of Net Square #TechieThursday sessions with our team.

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Precise
Presentations
An
introduction
to making
effective
slide decks
Saumil Shah, Net Square
7 April 2020

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Introduction and Agenda
• Writing Your Story
• Planning Your Talk
• Slide Templates
• Logos and Graphics
• Sacred Rules
• Fonts, Backgrounds, Images
• Resources
• Play with this Presentation!
Saumil Shah
@therealsaumil
saumilshah

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Everything Begins On Paper…
Write down
your thoughts…
...and assign
slide numbers.
1 Slide = 2 Minutes

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Slide Template - Title
L ogo
Title of your Talk
Your Name, Company
Email / Handle
Date and Venue
#hashtag
if applicable
Use your own styles, designs and
artistic liberties
MUST display company LOGO,
sometimes also the EVENT
LOGO.
TEXT content gets indexed
by search engines.
are a MUST!

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Slide Template - Content Slides
L ogo name/handle
MUST be displayed on every slide footer

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Slide Template - Closing
L ogo
THANK YOU MESSAGE
Your Name, Company
Email / Handle
URL of event and
where to find this Presentation
#hashtag
social media links
Lead the viewer back to the event

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Handling LOGOs and GRAPHICS
• Transparent Background PNGs...not JPGs.
DON'T DO THIS… …OR THIS
OK

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Aspect Ratios are SACRED
DON'T DO
THIS!
AND
DON'T
DO THIS
EITHER!
Learn to use
CONSTRAINED RESIZE
(Shift, Ctrl, Alt keys, etc)

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TRIM the PNGs
NOT TRIMMED
Accurate positioning
of logo, aligned with
other elements
is impossibe
TRIMMED

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FONTS
• Ensure the necessary TTF fonts are installed:
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Font: Myriad Pro
nsconclave2020
Fonts: Game Played,
Game Played Outline

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Don't Screenshot TEXT Output!
Waste of space.
Increases size of
PPT/PDF.
Please don't CROP and mess up
the ASPECT RATIO!

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Instead use MONOSPACE Fonts
• Lucida Console is a good MONOSPACE font.
– Many nice monospace fonts available.
• Cleaner and READABLE.
• Control over colours.
• Easy to highlight selective text.
saumil@gayatri:~/Desktop$ ifconfig en0
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 4c:32:75:9e:70:7d
inet6 fe80::ca0:5441:e53b:944d%en0 prefixlen 64 secured scopeid 0x5
inet 10.20.3.40 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 10.20.255.255
nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
media: autoselect
status: active

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Backgrounds and
Images

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thenounproject.com

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uiGradients.com

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Play with this Presentation!
• Install the following fonts: (Treasure Hunt!)
– Barlow
– Source Sans Pro
– Myriad Pro
– xkcd Script
– GamePlayed and GamePlayed Outline.
• Use the Arrange/Align button for placement.
• Learn how to use the Slide Master.
• Right Click and Explore Everything.

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THANK YOU
@therealsaumil