As I was scrolling through all of the presentations, this one made me stop in my tracks. It could be that I have a life-long love of Star Wars, or it could be that their presentation cover slide was designed to do just that: grab your attention. That’s why you should not stick w...
Call-To-Action or Next Steps Slide Luckily, you don’t have to be in-person to share a business presentation. Today, you can create and share video presentations online. They can even include screen and webcam recordings to communicate more clearly and with less room for misinterpretation. Bu...
After I showed each slide, I dragged the Keynote window to the main projector screen, and showed how I used the “bring forward, send back” menu items to create a series of layers so that the words could move between layers to emulate the effect it was describing. Not all could be ...
With the current emphasis on “Big Data”, there are now specialists in this area who can assist to produce complex charting which are useful for paper, convention expo or website viewing, but which overwhelm a slide unless you can use Magic Move to move around the slide bringing singular a...
• recent developments • influence humans and the petroleum industry have to impact the climate My draft presentation is here [SPE climate 2016]. It is a 60 minute talk; I’ve used about 2/3 of the slides before (the rest are new or updated). ...
If you want to improve your craft, you should add a link at the end of your slide deck and ask for feedback. People do not always tell you when they are lost, confused, or can’t read a slide. Gather both quantitative and qualitative feedback to improve your presentation skills....
You can’t just fire up PowerPoint and create your first slide. Well, you can, but this “strategy” will shortly prove to be ineffective and chaotic. It’s so much better to start by outlining the presentation’s structure. How many slides should be there? How many blocks/sections do ...
Is there a clearer indication Janet has lost interest? She’s not even trying to hide it! She’s drawing boxes and geometric shapes, filling her legal pad. By the end of the meeting, that page will be solid black. Thanks a lot, Janet. ...
The first thing to consider is where your text will be used – does it need to be easily readable in longer paragraphs and smaller sizes? Or can you afford to go bigger? Are you looking for a larger, more impactful slide title?
(he's Executive Editor atByte.com),memepool,Phil Greenspun,Bill St. Clair, and theGadwell group.Paul E. Schindler wrote``OK, now all my website of the week recommendations are worth going to, but this one especially so, if for no other reason that the slide headed, "Things We Aren...