Things that Ruined Your Powerpoint Presentions

This is a humor clip about a person who has extremely irresponsible attitude on presenting her slides to her audience. Funny but you don't want this to happen during your big day in front of your audiences.

Guy Kawasaki in Community Next

Very inspiring and informative talk by founders of web 2.0 sites:

• Akash Garg of hi5
• Sean Suhl of Suicide Girls
• Max Levchin of Slide
• James Hong of HotorNot
• Markus Frind of PlentyofFish
• Drew Curtis of Fark

How to Boost Your Creativity

Boosting creativity need some proper guidance and practice.

Creativity

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Creating Appear- And-Disappear-Item-without-Clicking Presentation

This video is made to create "Now you see it, now you don't" effect without clicking your mouse. Please view it in full-screen mode.

How To Create Click- And- Disappear-Item Presentation

This is a response to one Powerpoint user who wants to remove pictures during presentation once item identified in his/her Powerpoint presentation.

Powerpoint Presentations - How To Make A Screamer

I assume that this idea is made by a youngster to scare his/her sister. Simple powerpoint prank technique I'd ever seen in my life.

Creating Powerpoint Templates To Present Your Business Ideas

I've created this business Powerpoint template in order to make use of the hyperlink feature. Most audiences dislike 200+ powerpoint slides. I'll wear pajamas if I attend this 200+ super-boring presentation.

Read more: The Five Minute Business Presentation Ideas

15 Ways of Creating Value For Your Powerpoint Presentations

Here's a list on how to create value for your Powerpoint presentations in order to create slides that people want to see:

1. write short/brief points/compact meaning
2. use no/less bullets
3. optimize the use of text box for your text-contents
4. use simple layouts (refer: How To Make Simple And Elegant Business Powerpoint Presentations)
5. use more pictures (related ones)
6. avoid using complicated animations - bring you most of the problems
   
7. allocate more time for your product promotion
8. present your ideas like a storyboard - boost creativity.
   
9. use suitable fonts that increase the impact of your slides
10. don't overuse hyperlinks (refer: The Five Minute Business Presentation Ideas)
11. minimize the amount of slides used (should not exceed 100 slides)
12. put more related quotes in your slides (preferably, inspiring ones).
13. make a simple self-introduction by creating business card-like template.
14. Use simple graph and charts to summarized your data.
15. Use suitable body language which includes facial expression.
    

How To Please Your Lazy Audience With Your Powerpoint Presentations?

Audiences are like king to us - you need to treat them nicely. Basically, they are indeed lazy in sense of obtaining or absorbing your speech contents. Getting them to buy ideas from you is indeed a difficult task if you're not very to sharing your thought and ideas.

Think out of the box for a while. How could it be possible to attract audiences if you're not willing your knowledge to them? You must have a clear mind that every one of us has something to share. In your Powerpoint presentations, don't expect your audiences will read very single word from the slides. Certainly, you have to make your Powerpoint presentation "speaks".

A good Powerpoint presentation in some circumstances, it doesn't require us to speak that much. It means that this particular presentation able to 'speak' for itself. That's what we called 'standalone' slides. What is 'standalone' slides?

It means that a Powerpoint presentation able to do the talking instead of the speaker.

Whenever I have problems of developing new Powerpoint ideas, this presentation is my personal muse:

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Link - http://www.slideshare.net/chereemoore/meet-henry

Based on this, I created one for a DNA testing kit promotion:


Link - http://youtube.com/watch?v=EcCejRMO7vY

It's better to find ways of simplifying the message delivering process to your audiences. Remember, they reject complicated messages - don't try to hard to please them with superfluous information. Every small pieces of information can be perceived at first glance.

I suggest you to read this - Creating five minutes Powerpoint presentations ideas.

How To Prepare An Oscar® Acceptance Speech

Ari Sandel is great at making such an acceptance speech in brief 60 seconds. If you think ahead, minimize your presentations and make it as brief as possible actually squeeze very sap of your brains. It is extremely difficult to do - unless you're Ari Sandel in this case.

Well, someone has figured Pecha Kucha - brief Powerpoint presentations which limited to 20 slides with 20 seconds per slide.

This gives a boost of creativity. I believe it will eventually works in business presentations.

Watch the video here.

What Is Actually Business Card Powerpoint Presentations?

In every formal meetings, mot probably we'll hand our business or contact card to our clients as first acquaintance. As for informal ones like casual events, we'll just distribute it among family and friends so that they can know you much better.

Business card is still an undying art - it just get better over the past few years and now, it's getting trendier!

Like this guy from Gapingvoid.com - who created art on the back of business cards had his work featured in Seth Godin's 'The Big Moo' book. This guy probably earns a lot of money by creating his unique business cards for his customers. You should check out his gallery of his cards on his website. By the way, you'll get to see some of his works in a widget at the left sidebar of this blog.

Like I said earlier, business cards are getting trendier. I had written an article a week ago about how to introduce yourself or your company services by creating a simple layout which resembles a business card layout:

Classy-black-and-white layout.

Grey layout looks fine as well.

This method shorten your introductory speech so you can allocate more time for promoting your product and company services to your clients.

If you want to know more about it, here's the link.

The Randy Pausch Last Lecture - Simple Powerpoint Presentations

I was captivated by Randy Pausch's Last Lecture particularly his Powerpoint presentations. It is indeed simple and if you're used to create Powerpoint slides, it might have to take several minutes to complete it. I had written some Powerpoint ideas regarding his speech on 12th April.

Sample of his introductory slide.

A effective presentation actually lies on the presenters' charisma and sense of humor.

He has inspired me that no matter how hard is going to work, we have to make it work - and every second accountable for every success. I wonder whether he's doing fine now. Let me know if you got updates about him.

If you've missed Randy's Last lecture and his Powerpoint tips - here's the link.

How To Cheat In Your Powerpoint Presentations

Sometimes cheating isn't bad. Most presenters aren't able to overcome their fear of public speaking because they couldn't remember their own lines properly. We need to improvise our speech as much as possible before our big day.

We are all human, how can we possibly remember all the speech lines?

Easy, because you don't have to remember all of your speech contents. Let your Powerpoint slides help you.

From all the resources about ways of improvising your speech, it often tells you that you couldn't read your slides when you're presenting on stage.

That's true, but you don't have to read every single points from your slides.

What can you do is this:

No harm putting your short notes here.

1. Instead of using flash cards, put all keywords/short notes on your slides.
2. Use text box to add-in your keywords at the bottom-right of the slide.
3. Make it smaller than the usual contents. Use italic fonts.

If you want to make a simple and elegant slides for your business proposal, meetings and events; read this - How To Make Simple And Elegant Business Powerpoint Presentations.

My First Post

This is my first post of this blog. This blog shares my insights about Powerpoint presentations mainly for busy people who spent less time in creating their own Powerpoint slides.

Snapshot of Presentationism.com

Spent roughly 2 hours to "clean" my Presentationism.com site. Take a look at it now.
I like the thumbnails arrangement.