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Lessons From Presentation Zen

How to rock your
presentations!
                                Kathy E. Gill
Not Rocking!
Ditch this
(death by Powerpoint)
First: Step
     Away From
     The Computer.



photo by Nantaskart!- 2005
Second: Know your audience




photo by Carbon NYC - 2008
Third: Understand your role
What is
your
story?
Ideas.
Concepts.
Not Slides.
Architecture:
Story Board
                      Storyboard    Design
  Title &    Story                             Cluttered
                        Images     Principle               Bad Graph
   Intro     Frames                              Image
                                       1
             Design                             Design
Good Graph
               2      Text         Text           3        Text
             Design
Text          4       Text
Not This Structure!
Compelling
 Imagery.
Three
  Visual
Principles
1. Simplify
Bullets
can kill
Minimize
lines and
words
Ensure
sufficient
contrast
Avoid
animation &
sound
2. Signal-to-Noise
3. Rule of Thirds
Salsa
Trumps
Before
  &
 After
From
Garr
Reynolds
From
Garr
Reynolds
From
Garr
Reynolds
Step Away From
The Computer.




photo by allietheoptimist- 2010
Know your audience




photo by Kevin Dooley- 2010
Understand your role




                   photo by sheiladeeisme - 2012
Then Simplify
Resources
 • PresentationZen (Garr Reynolds, Blog)
 • PresentationZen (book, Amazon)
 • The Rule of Thirds
 • Life After Death With Powerpoint (youtube)
Credits
Share&Share Alike; Attribution; Non-Commercial

Images CC except those purchased through iStockphoto:
How to Succeed In Business, Tomatoes

Some materials developed by Meg McGough in 2009

Kathy E. Gill, http://wiredpen.com/
@kegill

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Rock Your Presentation!

Editor's Notes

  1. http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2000-08-16/
  2. photo by Nantaskart! - 2005 http://www.flickr.com/photos/nantaskart/61707169/ Computer software forces us into one mode of thinking -> linear
  3. photo by Carbon NYC – 2008 http://www.flickr.com/photos/15923063@N00/888823443/ Perhaps the most important and overlooked aspect of a successful presentation
  4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalgrace/90984630/in/photostream/ There are many possible “speaker” roles – each will yield a different approach
  5. This is your unique selling point – no one else has your stories
  6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/14945830@N00/5468544099/ One way to brainstorm away from the computer
  7. Then you can begin to think “structure”
  8. Source: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-02-22/
  9. Show not tell
  10. Bullets can kill. Use sparingly.
  11. http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/ketchup-vs-salsa-by-the-numbers-191/
  12. http://www.flickr.com/photos/43571682@N08/4850932545/
  13. photo by kevin dooley 2010 http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/5075209982/sizes/o/in/photostream/
  14. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheila_dee/7145816361/sizes/l/in/photostream/