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April 7, 2013 By Pat · Leave a Comment · (Updated: August 17, 2016)

On Presenting

April 7, 2013 by Pat

Ever see Steve Jobs do his MacWorld keynotes? That’s the bar. Aim for that.

  • Your slides are your bullet points, not your transcript.
  • Slides are visual aids. Not literary works.
  • Have a separate set of notes that supplement the slides if you need more words.
  • Don’t read the slides, talk about them.
  • Look at your audience & talk to and with them.

Tools, Type, Tips.

  • Use what you know, provided you can make your slides  look at good as you can possibly make them.
  • Use clear legible type. Helvetica. Open Sans.
  • Simple color scheme with sufficient contrast (There’s a reason Steve Jobs used white text on really really dark backgrounds).
  • Able to be read anywhere in the room.
  • Use a clicker, a wireless mouse, a bluetooth touchpad – something that lets you stand where you can connect with the audience.
  • Keynote, PowerPoint – these are fine. If you’re a WordPress developer, why not WordPress?

I had to do some WordPress training for a business publication. After trying Prezi, Open Office, Keynote and PowerPoint, I asked myself why I was doing this the hard way – couldn’t I just build something in WordPress? The answer was definitely yes. I wrote a theme that uses Flexslider to accomplish this. Others have written presentations for WordCamps that use different jQuery plugins.

 

You can also code your own! Just don’t veer into the weeds & lose site of your aim, which is to make an effective presentation.

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