The document summarizes the results of Dave Paradi's 2015 survey on annoying PowerPoint presentations. Some key findings include: the top annoyance was presenters reading slides verbatim (71.7%); audiences see too many presentations with small, hard-to-read text and full sentences used as bullet points. Comments showed audiences want clear messaging, focused content in slides, and prepared delivery from presenters. The advice was to improve PowerPoint skills, prepare a concise message tailored for the audience, and use visual slides instead of overwhelming text.
10 Killer Tips for an Amazing Presentation - Way Before You Actually Give OneSlide Studio
Some months ago, we shared a blog post with 10 killer tips on how to prepare yourself for an amazing PowerPoint presentation. Now we've created a SlideShare that gives you these presentation tips in a visual and engaging way.
About Slide Studio: We are a group of presentation designers that can help you make your PowerPoint presentation more engaging. Drop us a link if you want more info.
This presentation includes science-based principles on how to attract an audience's attention, sustain it, and convert a presentation into memorable content.
Copywriting Tips for the Three Most Important Pages on Your WebsiteBarry Feldman
Your home page, landing page, and about page are crucial to your online marketing success. I've crammed 20 years of website copywriting experience into this concise, action-oriented tutorial.
Formulating the best presentation for your next sales meeting can seem like rocket science. Where do you start? Should you use graphs and pie charts? How do you conclude your presentation?
The presentation scientists at PGi have the answers. Check out the five elements you need to create a winning presentation design that will have your prospect saying "yes" to you and your products.
10 Killer Tips for an Amazing Presentation - Way Before You Actually Give OneSlide Studio
Some months ago, we shared a blog post with 10 killer tips on how to prepare yourself for an amazing PowerPoint presentation. Now we've created a SlideShare that gives you these presentation tips in a visual and engaging way.
About Slide Studio: We are a group of presentation designers that can help you make your PowerPoint presentation more engaging. Drop us a link if you want more info.
This presentation includes science-based principles on how to attract an audience's attention, sustain it, and convert a presentation into memorable content.
Copywriting Tips for the Three Most Important Pages on Your WebsiteBarry Feldman
Your home page, landing page, and about page are crucial to your online marketing success. I've crammed 20 years of website copywriting experience into this concise, action-oriented tutorial.
Formulating the best presentation for your next sales meeting can seem like rocket science. Where do you start? Should you use graphs and pie charts? How do you conclude your presentation?
The presentation scientists at PGi have the answers. Check out the five elements you need to create a winning presentation design that will have your prospect saying "yes" to you and your products.
This slide show takes the user on a quest to create better presentations. It is inspired by the era of classic rpgs and 8-bit gaming. All art work was designed (yes, even the pixel art) and arranged in Keynote 09.
14 Tips to Entrepreneurs to start the Right StuffPatrick Stähler
14 tips for Entrepreneurs how they can develop from an idea the Right Thing. The Right is being loved by your customers, gives meaning to you and employees and is profitable. Finding and later doing the Right Thing is an agile and iterative learning journey. With these 14 tips you can profit from the experience of successful entrepreneurs since you do not have to experience and fail by yourself. Hopefully, the slide deck helps other entrepreneurs.
Photography is a crucial part of presentations, as well as integral to our social lives. This is for a reason.
Photos can convey emotion, explain an idea, and tell a story.
When used correctly, photography can become the pivotal difference between a dull and exciting presentation. When used incorrectly, they become landmines that sabotage any presentation.
So in this slideshare we list the top five principles of photography that are crucial when incorporating them into business or pleasure.
Stories to help you better your presentationsSticky SPY
This is a compilation of stories and ideas to help you better your presentations. Includes examples of slide design and others. Also available in multi-touch ibooks version for the iPad. Most information is also available from www.stickyspy.com.
Time To Bring Some Marketing To Your PresentationsSlide Studio
How come we spend thousands of dollars in marketing our products and services, but only the minimum amount of time and money in our presentations?
This deck gives you three simple ways of taking the first steps towards more creative and powerful PowerPoint slides.
Say No Thank You to the PowerPoint Thank You Slide24Slides
You want your last words on your PowerPoint presentation make an impact. If you spent a lot of time developing and perfecting the content of your presentation, you want each slide to be important. Your concluding slide is the chance to end in a memorable way -- to leave the audience thinking, “Wow! That was a great presentation!” Tell your audience in person "Thank You" and end with a content that will lead you to close more sales and make a bigger impact.
16 things that Panhandlers can teach us about Content MarketingBrad Farris
Successful panhandling is a lot like content marketing; it's reaching a jaded audience in a saturated market by finding a message that jumps out and moves you to action. This presentation looks at tactics and quotes taken from interviews with panhandlers and street performers and see what we can learn to make our content as effective as their cardboard signs.
This presentation was given at Content Jam 2013 http://www.http://contentjam.com/
Hashtag 101 - All You Need to Know About HashtagsModicum
Social media today moves at a mind-blowing pace. As soon as we feel like we’ve gotten the hang of one thing, something new flies onto the radar. It’s tough to keep up with it all. For example, it’s likely you’ve heard of hashtags. Suddenly, they’ve become part of our everyday lives, but many of us don’t truly understand how to use them. Never fear! In this #Hashtag 101 infographic, our adorable friend the hashbot has fun teaching exactly what you need to know about optimizing the usage of hashtags for business.
This slide show takes the user on a quest to create better presentations. It is inspired by the era of classic rpgs and 8-bit gaming. All art work was designed (yes, even the pixel art) and arranged in Keynote 09.
14 Tips to Entrepreneurs to start the Right StuffPatrick Stähler
14 tips for Entrepreneurs how they can develop from an idea the Right Thing. The Right is being loved by your customers, gives meaning to you and employees and is profitable. Finding and later doing the Right Thing is an agile and iterative learning journey. With these 14 tips you can profit from the experience of successful entrepreneurs since you do not have to experience and fail by yourself. Hopefully, the slide deck helps other entrepreneurs.
Photography is a crucial part of presentations, as well as integral to our social lives. This is for a reason.
Photos can convey emotion, explain an idea, and tell a story.
When used correctly, photography can become the pivotal difference between a dull and exciting presentation. When used incorrectly, they become landmines that sabotage any presentation.
So in this slideshare we list the top five principles of photography that are crucial when incorporating them into business or pleasure.
Stories to help you better your presentationsSticky SPY
This is a compilation of stories and ideas to help you better your presentations. Includes examples of slide design and others. Also available in multi-touch ibooks version for the iPad. Most information is also available from www.stickyspy.com.
Time To Bring Some Marketing To Your PresentationsSlide Studio
How come we spend thousands of dollars in marketing our products and services, but only the minimum amount of time and money in our presentations?
This deck gives you three simple ways of taking the first steps towards more creative and powerful PowerPoint slides.
Say No Thank You to the PowerPoint Thank You Slide24Slides
You want your last words on your PowerPoint presentation make an impact. If you spent a lot of time developing and perfecting the content of your presentation, you want each slide to be important. Your concluding slide is the chance to end in a memorable way -- to leave the audience thinking, “Wow! That was a great presentation!” Tell your audience in person "Thank You" and end with a content that will lead you to close more sales and make a bigger impact.
16 things that Panhandlers can teach us about Content MarketingBrad Farris
Successful panhandling is a lot like content marketing; it's reaching a jaded audience in a saturated market by finding a message that jumps out and moves you to action. This presentation looks at tactics and quotes taken from interviews with panhandlers and street performers and see what we can learn to make our content as effective as their cardboard signs.
This presentation was given at Content Jam 2013 http://www.http://contentjam.com/
Hashtag 101 - All You Need to Know About HashtagsModicum
Social media today moves at a mind-blowing pace. As soon as we feel like we’ve gotten the hang of one thing, something new flies onto the radar. It’s tough to keep up with it all. For example, it’s likely you’ve heard of hashtags. Suddenly, they’ve become part of our everyday lives, but many of us don’t truly understand how to use them. Never fear! In this #Hashtag 101 infographic, our adorable friend the hashbot has fun teaching exactly what you need to know about optimizing the usage of hashtags for business.
Consider your data when choosing a color palette for your charts and graphs. This presentation explains the 3 main types of color palettes, shows examples of how they are using in charts, and explains how to use color when you make your charts interactive.
Need a little help to inspire your team? Whether it's your office, your youth group, your classroom, your executive staff or just for yourself - Fun Team Building is here to help. We're providing you with 52 inspirational, and motivational quotes to help you get through the year.
Everyday can be a challenge, but you can get through it. When you're looking for a few words to help inspire you, check back to see what we're featuring for this week. And feel free to share with us, your favorite motivational quote - we'll share it with the rest of our audience and team!
Your guide to picking the right User Interface (UI) and creating the best User Experience (UX) in just a short amount of time. Learn how to quickly create mockups, landing pages, and build mock integrations that turn into large ideas.
Have more questions about UX/UI? Contact mvp@koombea.com for additional information or questions and we will get back to you shortly.
How would you like to come across during a presentation? Check all that apply — Lazy? Safe? Unimaginative? A rule-follower? If you use a bullet slide, you are checking all those boxes. That's what bullets on a slide sub-consciously say about you. "But," I hear you say, "That's what the template made me do…" or "I had to get these points across, bullets are the best way."
See more at http://makeapowerfulpoint.com/2012/03/18/the-non-bullet-bullet-slide/
Using icons is a great way to add visuals to your presentation. There are many ways to get icons online, some are even free. But if you need a specific icon that you can’t find or if you want a special spin to your icon (color, shadow etc) – you can use PowerPoint’s great (and somewhat hidden) “Merge Shapes” commands to create your own icons.
Using these commands you can combine basic shapes into other shapes. You can union and subtract shapes. You can intersect and combine. All while still working natively inside PowerPoint. Once you have created an icon you can change the color, filling and add shadows as needed.
It is just as fun as building with Lego blocks! Well, almost..
This is a guide in 15 steps showing you how you can use these commands to create your own icon - the example we are using is a calendar icon.
How People Really Hold and Touch (their Phones)Steven Hoober
For the newest version of this presentation, always go to: 4ourth.com/tppt
For the latest video version, see: 4ourth.com/tvid
Presented at ConveyUX in Seattle, 7 Feb 2014
For the newest version of this presentation, always go to: 4ourth.com/tppt
For the latest video version, see: 4ourth.com/tvid
We are finally starting to think about how touchscreen devices really work, and design proper sized targets, think about touch as different from mouse selection, and to create common gesture libraries.
But despite this we still forget the user. Fingers and thumbs take up space, and cover the screen. Corners of screens have different accuracy than the center. It's time to re-evaluate what we think we know.
Steven reviews his ongoing research into how people actually interact with mobile devices, presents some new ideas on how we can design to avoid errors and take advantage of this new knowledge, and leaves you with 10 (relatively) simple steps to improve your touchscreen designs tomorrow.
What 33 Successful Entrepreneurs Learned From FailureReferralCandy
Entrepreneurs encounter failure often. Successful entrepreneurs overcome failure and emerge wiser. We've taken 33 lessons about failure from Brian Honigman's article "33 Entrepreneurs Share Their Biggest Lessons Learned from Failure", illustrated them with statistics and a little story about entrepreneurship... in space!
You are dumb at the internet. You don't know what will go viral. We don't either. But we are slighter less dumber. So here's a bunch of stuff we learned that will help you be less dumb too.
Part 1PowerPoint Please respond to the following.docxrandyburney60861
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PowerPoint
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Please respond to the following:
Compare and contrast the best and worst visual presentations** you have experienced as an audience member. Then, create a list of three “must do” and three “don’t do” from your experiences.
Discuss how much of a good presentation** is the visual aspect and how much is the speaking or presenting aspect. Discuss which you feel is more important.
**Chapter text included in the attachments**
Part 2:
In a separate post, follow up on one or more of your fellow students in a substantive post of up to 200 words that furthers the discussion. For example, you may support or politely challenge a post with your own insights or experience, make a suggestion, or ask probing follow-up questions. Support your positions with explanations and/or sources, as appropriate, but try not quote. (choose one)
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Robert Thomas:
Professor and class,
The best visual presentation I have ever seen was a demonstration on the necessity of social media in non-profit organizations. This was a power point presentation, but the presenter only used that program to elaborate what he was discussing and also provide levity to the presentation. He was animated, witty, and right on topic.
The worse presentation I have seen was a presenter who just basically read the power point presentation right off of the screen. He was monotone and completely uninteresting. I got absolutely nothing out of the presentation. It would have been better just to read a pamphlet on the subject.
To address the second segment, I believe that a program like power point needs to compliment the presentation. The problem is that many presenters rely on power point for the entire presentation. This is not enough. The visual presentation needs to be stunning and colorful. It needs to compliment the presenter.
The presenter needs to be interesting and exciting. He needs to interact with his audience. Body language is very important for the presenter. He needs to be quirky and humorous and one with the audience. When he refers to the visual, it should be to compliment his talk.
b.
Matthew Ervin:
In my experience visual presentations will be performed over a web conference as often as directly in front of an audience. At one point in my career I was attending nearly 5 presentations per week. Here is the list of Do’s and Don’ts I have created.
DO:
Keep the presentation of each slide consistent
Keep the information short, and add links for additional information
Check the format on the machine you will present from
Don’t:
Get side tracked with people in the room (When presenting to an online group)
Write full page paragraphs
Skip back and forth on the presentation
The percentage of a presentation that is visual will change depending on how you are presenting. When presenting in person, the speaking aspect become much more critical. Maintaining good eye contact and body language will be critical to the .
Introductory presentation (aimed towards event management professionals) about using webinars and how they can be utilised within their event planning streams. Contains general advice and areas to consider.
MAGMA Global an ed-tech start-up introduces virtual collaborative learning programs - transforming a webinar or onlinelearning into a facilitated learning journey.
This is a guidebook for the learners/participants to achieve the best learning outcomes from global collaborative learning.
The learning stakeholders consist of corporate employees learning together with students from an institute of higher learning. The corporate employees and students are from different countries & background adding a wonderful cross culture flavor & mix to the learning process.
The program is delivered in a blended format using various technologies including gotomeeting (webinars) | skype (group or one-to-one conversations for collaborative assignments) | wiztango for blended learning which includes social & informal discussions, assessments, assignments, projects, on boarding & administration, agenda, etc
We are partnering with Universities in Singapore & India and are exploring partnerships with other regional institutes. To collaborate with some of Asia' most talented corporate employees, technology and business faculties can contact us at http://www.wiztango.com/ptlm/2311-MAGMA
Presented by Lea Synefakis-Pica for Analytics That Excite 2014
Even the most seasoned analyst can make very simple changes to a presentations to make a big impact. If everyone in your audience is catching up on email or sleep, chances are your presentation design and/or data charts are obscuring your valuable insights and hurting you rather than helping you. Lea can help you inspire action and build credibility with a fresh new toolbox of tips and techniques to set your presentations apart and get the results you’re looking for.
Letsgetstartaffiliate.com power point 51 important tips to create your busin...Business Secrets
Ready to Win. Professionally researched, planned and prepared so that you can effectively deliver the right message to your target audience. Designed correctly. With points that are illustrated and visually illustrated without overwhelming your audience or unnecessarily complicating your message....
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More and more meeting and training presentations are going to a virtual format. This presentation will provide you with good practices to run a smooth Webinar or virtual meeting. This presentation is applicable regardless of the Webinar platform that you use.
Slide Makeover #91: Comparing Revenue components to previous yearDave Paradi
Explaining the components of total revenue in an organization is an important message. Often we want to compare it to the amount contributed by each component in the previous year to see where the differences come from. This makeover shows how you can use a “steps to a total” graph instead of a spreadsheet or table of numbers.
Slide Makeover #90: Showing the timing of steps in a projectDave Paradi
When reviewing the key steps in a project or initiative, the audience needs to quickly understand the timing of each step so they can make decisions. This makeover shows how you can use a data-driven Gantt chart instead of a bulleted list of dates.
Slide Makeover #92: Comparing growth in Sales and Expense categories over timeDave Paradi
Often we want to compare how different data series have changed over time. If the starting values are significantly different, graphing the trends in each series may not make the comparison better than a table of numbers. This makeover shows how you can use an index line graph to compare trends in different data series using a common starting point.
Breakeven analysis is a typical task when considering an investment in new facilities, equipment, or marketing efforts. Executives need to know how long it will be before their investment pays off. This makeover shows how you can show the breakeven visually instead of a spreadsheet or table of numbers.
Slide Makeover #88: Showing a trend and comparing current value to last Quart...Dave Paradi
Analyzing performance requires looking at the current value in context. The context often includes the trend in past values and the comparison to the last value and the value for the same period in the previous year. . This makeover shows how you can use a line graph instead of a column graph to show both the trend and comparisons.
Slide Makeover #87: Showing the components that add up to a totalDave Paradi
When analyzing results, it is important to look at how a total value was achieved. The components that contribute to the total help the audience understand how that total was arrived at. This makeover shows how you can use a Steps to a Total graph created in PowerPoint to visually show this instead of using a spreadsheet from Excel.
Slide Makeover #86: Focusing the message for variance analysisDave Paradi
Finance (and other) professionals often analyze current performance compared to past performance or plans to look for variances. Too often they copy the spreadsheet onto a slide. This slide makeover shows how you can focus the message with visuals when you are discussing variances.
Slide Makeover #85:Showing performance compared to past and budgetDave Paradi
When presenters communicate current performance compared to past and expected performance, it often results in a table of numbers that the audience has to figure out. This slide makeover shows how you can use a particular type of graph that visually shows the comparison.
Slide Makeover #84:Converting financial notation to visual indicatorsDave Paradi
Financial presentations often include sections of spreadsheets copied from Excel. These include financial jargon and notations that confuse the audience. This makeover shows how to convert accounting notation to visual indicators the audience easily understands.
2016 State of Financial Presentations Survey ReportDave Paradi
What do audiences think of financial presentations? The results of this survey in March 2016 tell presenters of financial information what annoys the audience and gives suggestions on how financial presentations can be more effective.
Slide Makeover #80: Shifting breakdown of segments totalling 100%Dave Paradi
Often we have to show segments that add to 100% of whatever we are measuring. A stacked column graph is a very common way to show this visually. When the proportions of the segments change over time, we typically use side by side stacked column graphs. This slide makeover shows how using a diverging stacked bar chart can make the changes in two groups of segments much easier for the audience to understand.
The State of Financial Presentations 2014 Survey ResultsDave Paradi
How good or bad are financial presentations? I wanted to hear the audience's perspective. So I conducted a survey in May and June of 2014 asking those who see financial presentations what they thought. This deck presents the results of the survey and what financial presenters can do to make their presentations more effective.
Slide Makeover #79: Comparing groups broken into segmentsDave Paradi
When you want to compare the breakdown of a total amount into segments between multiple groups, the temptation is to use two pie charts. Pie charts are the default most presenters turn to when showing the breakdown of an amount into segments. This makeover shows why a stacked bar chart is often better than two pie charts for comparing groups broken down into segments.
How to select and create an effective visual for your business presentationDave Paradi
Why do so many business professionals only use bullet point slides and the standard simple graphs in their PowerPoint presentations? This slide deck explains the four reasons why this is the case for many professionals. It shares an approach that works for people like analysts, accountants, engineers, and technical experts who don’t want to become designers just to create effective presentations.
2 Big Mistakes Professionals make using Excel data in PowerPointDave Paradi
When professionals present financial or operational data from Excel, they often make these two mistakes when they move that data into PowerPoint. Learn what you need to do in order to avoid these mistakes.
Have you ever wondered how search works while visiting an e-commerce site, internal website, or searching through other types of online resources? Look no further than this informative session on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet! Hear from taxonomists and other information professionals who have first-hand experience creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines.
0x01 - Newton's Third Law: Static vs. Dynamic AbusersOWASP Beja
f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
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Diogo Sousa, Engineering Manager @ Canonical
An opinionated individual with an interest in cryptography and its intersection with secure software development.
Sharpen existing tools or get a new toolbox? Contemporary cluster initiatives...Orkestra
UIIN Conference, Madrid, 27-29 May 2024
James Wilson, Orkestra and Deusto Business School
Emily Wise, Lund University
Madeline Smith, The Glasgow School of Art
This presentation, created by Syed Faiz ul Hassan, explores the profound influence of media on public perception and behavior. It delves into the evolution of media from oral traditions to modern digital and social media platforms. Key topics include the role of media in information propagation, socialization, crisis awareness, globalization, and education. The presentation also examines media influence through agenda setting, propaganda, and manipulative techniques used by advertisers and marketers. Furthermore, it highlights the impact of surveillance enabled by media technologies on personal behavior and preferences. Through this comprehensive overview, the presentation aims to shed light on how media shapes collective consciousness and public opinion.
Acorn Recovery: Restore IT infra within minutesIP ServerOne
Introducing Acorn Recovery as a Service, a simple, fast, and secure managed disaster recovery (DRaaS) by IP ServerOne. A DR solution that helps restore your IT infra within minutes.
This presentation by Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota), was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/crps.
This presentation was uploaded with the author’s consent.