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Tips for giving
great
presentations
By Jen Sotolongo
TIP #
Layout and Basic Design
HAVE YOU SEEN ME?
• Bullets followed by full sentences are boring.
Even if you use fancy bullets.
• Your audience is not reading everything on the slide because there is too
much information and it all looks the same. And the font is too small
and you’re making everyone squint.
• I like cookies!
• Especially when your presenter is just reading word-for-word off the
slides. May as well just give them a printed document and let them read
it on their own time.
• How many presentations have you endured just like this?
• Probably a lot.
• I bet this slide makes you…
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keep it
simple.
tell a
story.
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It’s OK
to
borrow.Find inspiration from
other great
presentations and mimic what they did.
Photos are niceFind high quality
images online or use
your own, but don’t
steal.
That’s not cool,
but this is:
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This is how you give credit.
TIP #
Don’t be Afraid to use Color
But let’s not go overboard
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Find inspiration for
your color scheme
in foods…
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nature…
Your favorite
sports team…
Snoop Dogg
Even Katy Perry
used a color
scheme
TIP #
Let’s Talk about Text, Baby
Stay away from
these fonts:Times New Roman
ArialCourier New
Brush ScriptComic Sans
PapyrusMistral
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Here’s a
sample of
some
great fontsAnd I’d be using them if
I could download them
to my work computer…
Illustrate importance with:
a different font
color
CAPITAL LETTERS
size
A word on text effects and animations:
A pain to create
They’re slow
Distracting
Annoying
Keep your font size to a
minimum of
30
This is 44This is 30
This is 18. You probably can’t read this one.
TIP #
Geeky Chic Data
All these numbers
kinda make you
feel a bit loopy, no?
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Pie Preference
Blackberry
Apple
Not anotherpie chart!!
π
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Put your data
into perspective
Infographics are
your friend
TIP #
Practice Makes Perfect
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Practice
aloud.Pets make a great audience.
Let’s recap:
#5 Practice Makes Perfect
#1 Layout and Basic Design
#2 Don’t be Afraid to use Color
#3 Let’s Talk about Text, Baby
#4 Geeky Chic Data
Thank You!
Questions?
jen@mthoodterritory.com
Appendix
Presentation InspirationYou Suck at PowerPoint
Steal this Presentation!
Thirst
Smoke
Death by PowerPoint
8 Tips for an Awesome PowerPoint Presentation
Free Font Resources1001 Free Fonts
Dafont
Font Squirrel
Appendix
Royalty Free Image and Photo ResourcesFlickr
Getty Images
Stock.Xchng
Creative Commons Search
Google Image Search
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