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The Circuit was pleased to feature David Bowman, Marketing Manager of Lucrum, for our professional development program on Death by PowerPoint. David write this on his website (www.davidebowman.com) Did you know that fear of public speaking ranks above fear of death. Seriously the top three fears are public speaking, death, and spiders. Who knew? Maybe one reason we all fear speaking in front of people is that we don’t want to look foolish. Sadly, the use of PowerPoint as a presentation tool often results in just that. Speakers look bad, audiences are bored, and public speaking remains something scary – wooohaahaaahaa. Fear not! It does not have to be this way. This morning I got to deliver one of the more enjoyable presentations I have done in quite some time. The audience – 50 or so members of The Circuit, an organization based in Cincinnati, Ohio that brings together Information Technology professionals from around the region. The topic – Death by PowerPoint. I opened the presentation with an original song entitled Death by PowerPoint. I must say I was a little nervous about starting the event by performing a song I wrote two days ago – and never played in front of anyone but my wife and kids. Happily the song went well, and I didn’t mess it up too badly. Everyone seemed to find the humor in it, and it proved to be a great segue into the presentation. Right after I was done singing it, I jokingly said that the 4 minute song contained just about every point I wanted to make – which is not far from the truth. Ahhh music. How I miss you. Maybe I was missing the boat all those years of playing until 2:30am in bars? Perhaps my future is 7:30am in conference rooms?
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Death by PowerPoint
Seriously?You can do better
How most peopleuse PowerPoint
How most people look using PowerPoint
How most people feel about PowerPoint
PowerPoint should feel like this
PowerPoint could be the most
powerful tool on your computer…
but it’s not- Seth Godin
and the Lord said it was bad.
Forgive them Father, for they know not
what they do.
“Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.”
Life’s too short for death by PowerPoint
Do’s, Don’ts, Hacks, Tips,
Tricks, Tactics, & Techniques
for betterPowerPoint
presentation or conversationpresentation or conversation
nobody wants to watch you reading
bullets kill people
WHAT THE FONT?
One logo is enough
“If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation
or investigating aromatherapy.” – Nancy Duarte
Cut the Clip Art
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CONFUSION
TerribleMeaningful99%
suck
Charts & Graphs
Make charts & graphs
Meaningful
1970 2009
Kids today consume 5 times more fast food than kids in 1970
You’resupersizing us
30% eat fast foodevery day
POW! BLAM!
ZING!WHOOSH!
SOCK!
NO SOUND EFFECTS or
ANIMATIONS!
keep it simple
stupid
Simple tips from:Seth Godin
0 bullets
1 point
6 wordswords, words, words, words, words, words.
Simple tips from:Guy Kawasaki
10 slides
20 minutes
30 pt Font abcGuy Kawasaki
Simple method:Pecha Kucha
20 slides
20 seconds
6.6 minutes
step by step
decide where you’re going
write it down, and draw it up
Death By PowerPointUnplugged
outline
storyboard
deliverables3
Balancing content
Process
Ideas
Feelings
Ideas
FeelingsProcess
FactsFactsT
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Practice
check yourself
Find your voice
have fun
Thanks!David E. BowmanMarketing Manager, LUCRUMhttp://lucruminc.comhttp://davidebowman.com
Photo Credits
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/annguyenphotography/3268547290/sizes/l/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/perfectoinsecto/1593972902/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/visualpanic/1996389857/sizes/l/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/powi/2185809467/sizes/o/
