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02-19-2013, 03:16 PM
Just wanted to share this short article by Seth Godin. It has some brilliant tips on how to make your presentations better. It is the sort of thinking that Steve Jobs probably used when designing his excellent product launches.
http://www.sethgodin.com/freeprize/reallybad-1.pdf
It is funny. I have never owned an Apple product. But I really loved Steve Jobs. The recent biography on him was really good.
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02-19-2013, 03:26 PM
Also - if you want a really good book explaining the secret behind Steve Jobs' success at Apple I would recommend the following:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Insanely-Simple-...490&sr=8-3
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02-19-2013, 03:28 PM
Alternatively, you could outsource the work to me and I'll do it. I'm a graphic designer and part of my job is dealing with presentations.
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02-19-2013, 03:51 PM
95% of that doc was talking about what a bad ppt looks like and 5% was a very vague example of "good" ones.
Didn't exactly make a good case.
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02-19-2013, 06:28 PM
The problem is nobody reads reports, which is how most information should probably be passed around a corporation. Instead people create docuslides which are meant to convey all the information that'd be in a good report but jam it onto PowerPoint slides. These are meant to be passed around via email so that managers can flip through them at their liesure. A lot of people take these slides and try and present off of them in meetings which is a disaster.
My solution is to create two sets of slides. One set is what I email people if they ask for a copy of my presentation. The other is a much slimmer set which I use to give talks. It's a little more work but I'm a much more effective communicator for it.
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02-19-2013, 07:06 PM
You are doing PowerPoint wrong by opening the program.
Use Prezi if you have to give a multimedia presentation.