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Will You Add? - PowerPoint With Punch: Do You Know It When You See It? Four Rules to Enhance Your Presentation
Walk around any trade or consumer show and you will be able to collect a bag full of advertising specialties, or giveaway items all designed to promote. But look a little more closely. How many really do an effective job? How clearly do they get a message across? Is the message sufficiently visible? Is the giveaway useful or unique enough that you would want to keep and use it? All these questions, and more, need to be considered before jumping into the giveaway game.Everyone enjoys receiving a gift, even if it is "just a little something." G
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All of us want to create and present great PowerPoint shows, but how do we know if we have achieved our goal? In trying to define quality in PowerPoint we are tempted to echo the famous 1964 statement of Justice Potter Stewart regarding what constitutes obscenity: "I know it when I see it." A substantial degree of subjectivity persists in any attempt to be definitive, yet we can all agree on a few essentials: your slides must be readable, clear, and memorable for PowerPoint to be effective.
In keeping with these essential principles, here are four rules to follow to improve the quality of your PowerPoint.
1. Remember less is more
One of the most common mistakes people make in designing their own PowerPoints is trying to get too much information on a single slide. Here's a good rule of thumb: if your presentation consisted of a written-out script, consider each paragraph of that script to be a separate slide. Then, summarize that paragraph into three or four lines, omitting all of the articles ("a" or "the") and as many forms as possible of the verb "to be."
For example, let's say the summary statement of a paragraph of your script is: "Unexpected noise is a distraction—please turn off the cell phones you brought or set them on the silent mode now." Your slide might read: "Avoid distractions. Please mute your phone now." The text on your slide serves to remind you of what you are going to say; it is not your word-for-word script. If you have ever seen and heard a presenter read word for wo
Let's face it. Most people go to work because they need money, not because they love going to work. And for many of these people, they don't even care what they are doing just so that they make the most money possible. For those of you who fall into this category, what follows is a list of some of the more higher paying jobs for college and non college folks. Hopefully, you'll find something that pays you what you're looking for.For those of you who don't have a college degree, don't fret, There are actually some pretty high paying jobs o
In keeping with these essential principles, here are four rules to follow to improve the quality of your PowerPoint.
1. Remember less is more
One of the most common mistakes people make in designing their own PowerPoints is trying to get too much information on a single slide. Here's a good rule of thumb: if your presentation consisted of a written-out script, consider each paragraph of that script to be a separate slide. Then, summarize that paragraph into three or four lines, omitting all of the articles ("a" or "the") and as many forms as possible of the verb "to be."
For example, let's say the summary statement of a paragraph of your script is: "Unexpected noise is a distraction—please turn off the cell phones you brought or set them on the silent mode now." Your slide might read: "Avoid distractions. Please mute your phone now." The text on your slide serves to remind you of what you are going to say; it is not your word-for-word script. If you have ever seen and heard a presenter read word for wo
A single issue – for example, a potentially dangerous, unattended perception among a key outside audience – can spread like wildfire nudging ANY business, non-profit, public entity or association closer to failure than success. Remember, it’s what people BELIEVE to be true – rather than the truth itself – that too often defines the public relations challenge.Why the top of the head actually hurts just thinking about a public relations speed bump like that!It also cries out for a sound public relations strategy combined
1. Remember less is more
One of the most common mistakes people make in designing their own PowerPoints is trying to get too much information on a single slide. Here's a good rule of thumb: if your presentation consisted of a written-out script, consider each paragraph of that script to be a separate slide. Then, summarize that paragraph into three or four lines, omitting all of the articles ("a" or "the") and as many forms as possible of the verb "to be."
For example, let's say the summary statement of a paragraph of your script is: "Unexpected noise is a distraction—please turn off the cell phones you brought or set them on the silent mode now." Your slide might read: "Avoid distractions. Please mute your phone now." The text on your slide serves to remind you of what you are going to say; it is not your word-for-word script. If you have ever seen and heard a presenter read word for wo
Steps to Business Success Be interested in your product! - When you decide to start your own business, it has been well proven that if you choose something you're interested in or have specialist knowledge of, such as a hobby or interest, you are much more likely to achieve success. The drive and self-discipline you require to sustain you through that difficult first year will be much stronger if you wake up every morning and are eager to get to work on your idea. We all recognise the importance of work morale and when you are ex
For example, let's say the summary statement of a paragraph of your script is: "Unexpected noise is a distraction—please turn off the cell phones you brought or set them on the silent mode now." Your slide might read: "Avoid distractions. Please mute your phone now." The text on your slide serves to remind you of what you are going to say; it is not your word-for-word script. If you have ever seen and heard a presenter read word for wo
What do creativity managers do?Replace the word management with the word optimisation.That's what creativity managers do: they optimise the quality of the idea pool (creativity) and the implementation process (innovation).There are many methods of optimisation and the creativity leader must be aware of all of them, in other words, he or she must synthesise them for optimal effect.Areas [within creativity] that need managing include motivation, organisational culture, organisational structure, incremental versus rad
2. Back away from the edge
PowerPoint slides are designed to contain color and graphics all the way to the edge, but because the various presentation vehicles--monitors, flatscreens, projections--contain a degree of variability around the edges, avoid allowing the text on your slide or any essential part of your graphics to get close to the edge. You may find when you are trying to present that it gets cut off. In fact, back away from all of the edges--top, bottom, right, and left--by at least an inch. This will ensure your resulting slide is less susceptible to embarrassing cut-offs.
3. Apply the rule of thirds
Photographers and artists scrupulously avoid putting their subjects into the exact center of the field because they realize how static and boring formalized symmetry can be. Instead, they draw imaginary "tic-tac-toe" lines, dividing the horizontal and vertical space into thirds. They then place the focal points on one or more of the crosshairs. This makes the composition more naturally dynamic. Take a look at the 1945 Pulitzer-Prize-winning photograph by Joe Rosenthal, "Old Glory Goes Up on Mt. Suribachi [Iwo Jima]," for example. The focal poi
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