Comments on: Five Rules for Better Presentations

By: Terri Rhoden

Terri Rhoden — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:04:03 +0000

Kathy Carlton Willis [Kathy Carlton Willis Communications, Raymondville, TX] was our Word Weavers Retreat guest speaker on Marketing at Lake Yale, Florida. She must have read your "Five Rules for Better Presentations," because she did a terrific job. She broke the components of marketing into small, comprehensible, and attainable goals and presented her ideas with charm and skill. She also made her notes available to attendees after the retreat was over.
Thanks for a great article. Terri Rhoden, Orlando, FL

By: My Current Presentation Tools

My Current Presentation Tools — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:28:53 +0000

[...] I have a theory about presentations: the presenter should be the show not the slides. In other words, the message I am delivering is [...]

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By: Larissa Glueck

Larissa Glueck — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:03:27 +0000

This article is right to the point. And it shows how important the presenter is. This person choose the tools technically, other tools, the wording and pictures.

The presenter creates the outline of the presentation & the way how to present. And the presenter influence the outcome by the way of presenting, voice, gestures and bodylanguage, interaction with the audience. This are some important points anybody should carefully add to the preparation. The better you can use this and the more aware you are about it when giving a presentation the better the outcome.

The Presenter should know the circumstances and pecularities of the room and act accordingly to them.

Will their be a shadow, because the presenter has to be in front of the projector for some time? Have an assistat who turn it of and on when neccessary.

How is the acoustics? Does it need special preparation to be well heard by the audience?

The thing with the handout is tricky. If it is for a meeting with discussion and people should prepare it is good to handout it upfront.

If you want the audience to embark on the journey you are telling with surprising twists or insights it is better to hand it afterwords to the audience. as people tend to read when they have something in front of them.

Also the handout upfront might be usefull sometimes, I opt for additional information by the speaker. This way the speaker can create a situation the audience has to connect the presentation content to the handout.

It is quite boring if the speaker just deliver it as it is writen.

Larissa

By: Pivotal Public Speaking » Five Rules for Better Presentations

Pivotal Public Speaking » Five Rules for Better Presentations — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:11:23 +0000

[...] presentation software, at least we can regulate it and, hopefully, try to improve it. Here are my five rules for making more effective [...]

By: chrishuff

chrishuff — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:31:22 +0000

Thanks to your twitter post mentioning this old article. In my best high school cheerleader voice…"like, OMG, that Seth Godin guy is so right on with his powerpoint book thingy. I read that once and like ever since, my ppt files have been just kickin in during my mondo presentations."

wow, I think I've had too much coffee today.

I explain powerpoint like this – use charts and graphs if necessary…but it's better to show a slide with a photo of a starving child than the numbers in each country. Slides give you the ability to get the emotional appeal. You could show a chart with numbers, but get that photo in their as well.

By: Sarah Walston

Sarah Walston — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:12:01 +0000

THANK YOU!!! I have to give a major group presentation in my Tech. Writing class in 2 wks. Haven't had to do one in 10 yrs…. SWEET TIPS

By: Give a Better Technical Presentation « Young Engineer

Give a Better Technical Presentation « Young Engineer — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:34:02 +0000

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By: John

John — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:01:49 +0000

End of my comment above:

We will all still use the same tool, but we need to learn how to appropriately and effectively use the tool. Again, the tool is not the problem; the presenter is (same is true of the college professors I try to assist here). If they didn't present 10-12 bullets per slide using PPT to their classes, they'd be doing it with an overhead projector instead.

By: John

John — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:01:18 +0000

I try to help college faculty redesign their PPTs for use in classes. It is quite a chore and the problem isn't the tool (PPT in this case) it is the presenter and they way they have chosen to provide info to their students. Imagine a 3 hour long class that has slide after slide full of 10-12 bullet points on EACH SLIDE! This is what they (instructors here) know and they don't want to change.

Many of the problems with bad presentations are not strictly as a result of use of PPT or Keynote. Rather, I see these bad presentations as a result of a series of missteps in preparing for the show (poor design choices, trying to cram too much info into slides, distracting colors, small fonts, etc.). PPT is not to blame because the presenter choose to use a script font at 30 point. Someone had to click it and apply it to the slide. Same is true of color use, random graphics, etc.