Oct 24 2009

Bullet Point Boot Camp – Day Five

No more sloppy bullet points!

No more sloppy bullet points! (c) Shutterstock

Well, we finally arrived at the last day of my Bullet Point Boot Camp. We’ve covered several different topics:

On this last day, I’m going to finish up the last two topics related to bullet points — content and delivery. Continue reading “Bullet Point Boot Camp – Day Five”

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Dec 30 2008

PowerPoint Design Principle #2: Control

Are you in control of your slides? (c) iStockPhoto/Andy Gehrig

Are you in full control of your PowerPoint presentation? (c)iStockPhoto/Andy Gehrig

In a previous article, I covered the first PowerPoint design principle of consistency. In this article, I’d like to explore the principle of control. Many PowerPoint users fail to realize they control many aspects that determine the success or failure of their presentations. Seemingly insignificant decisions in the presentation design stage can come back later to haunt the presenter when the presentation is delivered. For example, choices about what content to include, how to introduce the content, or what “special effects” to use can make or break presentations. Continue reading “PowerPoint Design Principle #2: Control”

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Dec 08 2008

Content Staging: Propel Your Slide Content Higher

Like a rocket, introduce your content in stages to propel your slides higher!

When you’re presenting your slide content, the last thing you want to do is overwhelm your audience with too much information on any one slide. If you find that you have too much content on one slide, you can divide it up and spread it over several slides. However, sometimes it’s not about simply breaking the content apart across multiple slides but about displaying the information more effectively in bit-size, digestible chunks in one slide. In these latter cases, I leverage a PowerPoint Ninja technique called content staging. Continue reading “Content Staging: Propel Your Slide Content Higher”

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