How to Avoid Death by PowerPoint with Significance, Structure, Simplicity and Rehearsal
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Based on Alexei Kapterev's Death by PowerPoint, which inspired me a whole lot. I was so moved to redesign the pages and make them a little more interesting.
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How to Avoid Death by PowerPoint with Significance, Structure, Simplicity and Rehearsal
- 1. a letter to presentation killers
- 2. content based on Alexei Kapterev’s death by powerpoint www.kapterev.com
- 3. There are 300 million PowerPoint users in the world* *estimate
- 4. They do presentations each day* 30 million *estimate
- 5. About presentations are going on right now* 30 million *estimate
- 6. 50%of them are unbearable**conservative estimate
- 7. LOTS of people are killing each other with NOW...whew! bad presentations.
- 8. They are all DEAD! Well, almost.
- 9. Let’s make the world a better place.a better place.
- 10. Why are they doing this ?!
- 11. Research shows:
- 12. Research shows: Bullets don’t kill people
- 13. Research shows: People kill people
- 16. Mainly due to lack of... Significance Structure Simplicity Rehearsal
- 17. Significance1
- 18. To “pass the information”? Your boss told you to? Or to make ?meaning Why do you present?
- 19. &why it to you?matters What’s the subject
- 20. significance passion attentionaction How presentations work .......... .......... ..... ..... creates attracts leads to
- 21. check yourself Are you ?passionate
- 22. this is passion
- 23. this is passion
- 24. Can’t find the meaning? Don’t present.
- 25. STRUCTURE
- 26. Structure is how you place the of your story.building blocks
- 27. Q: What structure to use? a: Any – as long as it is:
- 28. Convincing Memorable S c a l a b l e
- 31. Give supporting your point. 3-4 reasons They will not remember MORE ANYWAY.
- 32. SIMPLICITY3
- 33. Everything should be made but not simpler as simple as possible “ “ EINSTEN
- 34. Apparently, being simple is not simple.that LETS SEE SOME EXAMPLES
- 35. DON'T WORRY, TRYING TO READ WOULDN’T REALLY HELP
- 36. hey, we’ve got connection!
- 37. POWERPOINT HELPS TOPOWERPOINT HELPS TO
- 38. POWERPOINT HELPS TO: Visualize ideas
- 39. Create key points POWERPOINT HELPS TO:
- 41. Prompter Handouts Data dumps they use it as:
- 42. People read faster than you speak. This means you are useless
- 43. 0.00 per Slide Break it into several It’s free How much is an extra slide?
- 44. One simple point? What’s the point? Remove everything else.
- 45. Well, some are just hopeless.
- 46. Do you remember the rule: 7 lines per slide or less 7 words per line or less? Well, it is just plain stupid If you follow this “rule” You get a slide like this Ditch stupid “rules”
- 47. Do you remember the rule: 7 lines per slide or less 7 words per line or less? Well, it is just plain stupid If you follow this “rule” You get a slide like this cramped. boring Ditch stupid “rules”
- 48. Photos, not clipart Simple design rules* One point per slide Few matching colours Very fonts 1 few
- 49. less text
- 51. less text WILD IMAGERY MORE IMAGERY
- 52. But what if I need to send or print the slides?
- 53. Write a document
- 54. the rule is simple !!!
- 55. Print with notes
- 56. Inform with little text* p * yes you can
- 57. Rehearsal
- 58. It will never work completely for the first time. Trust me!
- 59. you presentation receipient feedback Go get some
- 60. No audience? Present to the furniture. But Try it.aloud.
- 61. Check the room and equipment.
- 62. All this leads to...
- 63. wow*great stuff!