PresentationsThat Work
Looking Ahead
The Three Parts
The Three Parts
•Your slides
•You and your audience
•Your handouts
Part One
Your Slides
Elegant Design
Reflect Your Message
Grab Attention
Stan
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Simplicity
Emotional Impact
Simplicity
Short, Clear Headlines
Short, Clear Headline
Short, Clear HeadlineSubhead that supports the headline
Short, Clear HeadlineSubhead that supports the headline
• Four legible bullet points, tops
Short, Clear HeadlineSubhead that supports the headline
• Four legible bullet points, tops✴Never use sub-bullets
Short, Clear HeadlineSubhead that supports the headline
• Four legible bullet points, tops✴Never use sub-bullets
• Give them breathing room
Short, Clear HeadlineSubhead that supports the headline
• Four legible bullet points, tops✴Never use sub-bullets
• Keep bullets short, active
• Give them breathing room
Short, Clear HeadlineSubhead that supports the headline
• Four legible bullet points, tops✴Never use sub-bullets
• Keep bullets short, active
• Give them breathing room
•Don’t use decorative fonts
For all our sakes
For all our sakes
never use clipart
Don’t Use Junk
Don’t Use JunkThat detracts from your message
Don’t Use JunkThat detracts from your message
The commuter challenge
Don’t Use JunkThat detracts from your message
The commuter challenge
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Don’t Use JunkThat detracts from your message
The commuter challenge
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Don’t Use JunkThat detracts from your message
The commuter challenge
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Don’t Use JunkThat detracts from your message
The commuter challenge
Page 3w8nc inc.October, 2006
Don’t Use JunkThat detracts from your message
The commuter challenge
Page 3w8nc inc.October, 2006
Don’t Use JunkThat detracts from your message
The commuter challenge
Page 3w8nc inc.October, 2006
Emotional Impact
Faces
Faces
Faces
Faces
Faces
Spoken Word Poetryan ANTHROPOLOGICAL search for meaning
In this presentation I will be looking at the roots of spoken word poetry in Toronto, and in Canada in general.
The key ethnographic issues I will discuss will include:
•The African griot* roots of dub and spoken word•Spoken word and rap, what’s the same?•Is spoken word poetry being appropriate•The slavery tradition and North American oral poetry•Spoken word and the oral tradition historically
Everybody’s got a story that’ll break your heart.-Amanda Marshall
* type of African storytelling, see Jameson’s “African Traditions, Page 43”
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Details TellStories
Detailed Data Deadens
Don’t Insult Your Audience
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What ensemble is not
• A traditional write-only website
What ensemble is not
• A traditional write-only website
• A content management system
What ensemble is not
• A traditional write-only website
• A content management system
• Centralized
What ensemble is not
• A traditional write-only website
• A content management system
• Centralized
• Complex
What ensemble is not
Summing UpSlides are the simple, emotional support for your message.
Part Two
You, and YourAudience
Summing Up
Excite
Engage
Don’t Enervate
IgIgnore the Tech
Eye Contact
Tell Stories
Summing UpUse your time toconnect in a humanway with your audience.
Part Three
Your Handouts
Vital Info
BrandingDetailsContact InfoLinksBibliography
Summing UpLeave the dataand details to yourhandout, whichshould not be your slides.
The Whole Show