The document provides tips for effective presentations, emphasizing the importance of choosing words carefully, maintaining a consistent message, and incorporating humor, while advising presenters to keep content simple and limit text in PowerPoint slides. It also highlights the need for checking facts, staying updated with research, and quoting experts to bolster credibility. Overall, the guide encourages engaging presentations without forcing content or spinning information falsely.

1. Pres4lib Lightning Talks: Round 2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/jegomezr/2926143475/sizes/l/ For video of this talk see http://pres4lib.pbworks.com

2. What do a leaky roof a greasy spoon a bear sighting and a man with a tortoise in his pants All have in common?

3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kloudjonas/3240282645/sizes/l/ They are all examples I’m going to use in… Tips for Effective Presentations

4. Choose Your Words

5. Choose Your Words With Care http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

6. Have a Consistent Message

7. Have a Consistent Message http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

8. Walk Your Talk

9. Walk Your Talk http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html 24 Hour Fitness Shiny Escalators

10. Humor helps the medicine go down

11. Humor helps the medicine go down http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

12. Humor helps the medicine go down But know your limitations…

13. Appreciate alternate perspectives

14. Appreciate alternate perspectives http://justinmaier.com/2006/05/09/amazing-3d-art-by-julian-bever/

15. Appreciate alternate perspectives http://justinmaier.com/2006/05/09/amazing-3d-art-by-julian-bever/

16. Don’t force the Content

17. Don’t force the Content

18. If you use Powerpoint… Limit Your Text

19. If you use Powerpoint… Limit Your Text

20. Keep it Simple

21. Keep it Simple http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

22. Keep it Simple http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

23. Keep it Simple ? ? ? http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

24. Keep it Simple http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

25. Surprises are Engaging

26. Surprises are Engaging http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

27. Surprises are Engaging http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

28. Surprises are Engaging http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

29. Check Your Facts

30. Check Your Facts http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

31. Check Your Facts http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

32. Stay on top of the Research

33. Stay on top of the Research http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

34. Quote the Experts

35. Quote the Experts http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

36. Quote the Experts http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

37. Quote the Experts http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

38. Quote the Experts http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

39. Inform, even advocate… but don’t try to spin what can’t be spun

40. Inform, even advocate… but don’t try to spin what can’t be spun http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

41. Inform, even advocate… but don’t try to spin what can’t be spun http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

42. Pass the Smell Test

43. Pass the Smell Test http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

44. Pass the Smell Test http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html

45. Thank you! http://www.flickr.com/photos/darwinbell/2602728681

46. Deleted Scenes http://www.flickr.com/photos/virgu/12496426/sizes/l/

47. Choose Your Words With Care http:// web.mac.com/iajukes/thecommittedsardine/Funny_Stuff.html