25 Powerpoint presentations you won’t hate. When I was younger and I had to make Powerpoint presentations, I never really liked to do them. I couldn’t figure out why other than they just didn’t do what I wanted them to do. They were often unappealing, tacky and most were just eyesores. That’s back when Powerpoint was hard to use and wasn’t intuitive at all.
Since then I’ve tried my hardest to stay away for Powerpoint and have been successful for quite a while. Recently, I’ve had to become reacquainted with Powerpoint presentations. Perhaps you have to do tons of presentations. 12 Digital Predictions for 2012 An Event Apart 2013. How Can I Make My PowerPoint Presentations Amazing? Top 20 Best PowerPoint Presentations. Looking for the best PowerPoint presentations to inspire you?
We searched high and low to provide you with an out of this world list of the best PowerPoint presentation designs. Presentations don’t only have to be used the day of your pitch. Now with sites like SlideShare, presentations are a great medium for creating unique content. From Slideshares to Ted Talks, here’s a top 20 list of the best PowerPoint presentation designs. …And feel free to laugh at the irony of us using bullet points while we applaud presenters for not using them! Top 20 Best PowerPoint Presentation Designs 1. . • Uses a minimal method • High definition images • No more than 6 words per slide 2. . • Steve Job’s method of listing things in 3’s • Large type font • Bold color 3. . • Strong images • Triggers emotion • 1 key point per slide 4. . • Clear demonstration of a McKinsey style presentation 5. . • Relatable symbols and pictographs • Minimal text. 8 Best PowerPoint Presentations: How To Create Engaging Presentations.
If you subscribe to news feeds or have friends who love to share information found online, you’ve likely seen some fresh, thought-provoking PowerPoint presentations.
While some are traditional, and others are trend-setting, they share a common factor that makes them great – the ability to convey a message to make a powerful “point” quickly, concisely, and memorably. In a nutshell, a great presentation sells a concept, doing so in a way that grips and holds your attention. The rise of slides as an extremely effective internet communication medium has not gone unrecognized by groups such as Microsoft and PowerPoint and hosting company SlideShare, who award honors each year to standouts. Listed below are a few favorite slideshows, as well as a tips on how to create your own. 1. Perspective on technology growth and change in China and India in comparison with the U.S. 2. Bringing to life the impact of waste on our environment. View the presentation. Designing Effective PowerPoint Presentations. Read 5 Steps to Conquer 'Death by PowerPoint' to Improve Your Presentations.
Microsoft's CEO wants ET method of presentation, not PowerPoint. I found this recently and thought it was an interesting use of data: From Bnet.com: Why Schering-Plough's Nasonex Bee Is to Blame for FDA's New Drug Ad Rules By Jim Edwards | May 27th, 2009 @ 8:53 am The FDA's new proposed guidelines on drug advertising read like a full-employment act for medical copywriters and graphic designers: they control font size, white space, context, contrast, placement, background and the use of sections in ads.
Overall, they require companies to produce materials that are more comprehensible to the "reasonable consumer;" that are more overt about risks; and warn that the FDA will judge them by their "net impression" "as a whole," not simply whether they are technically accurate. One person who will smile when reading the new guidelines is Ruth Day of Duke University.
Day's ideas seem to have been written wholesale into the new guidelines. ... Mighty regs from little Powerpoints grow ... Reference: Edwards, J. (27 May, 2009). -- B.L. Microsoft's wants ET presentation, PowerPoint. Should PowerPoint be banned from meetings? If you’ve suffered through meetings where colleagues use PowerPoint decks as their autocues for droning ‘presentations,’ you’ll love this development at two leading companies that could be a model for others to emulate.
Author and communicator Eric Bergman reports that two CEOs – Jeff Bezos at Amazon and Jeff Weiner at LinkedIn – have eliminated slide-driven presentations from their meetings. In the case of Amazon, the ban on PowerPoint presentations includes a ban on printed decks as well, as Bezos said in an interview with Charlie Rose, a US talk show host and journalist. […] “All of our meetings are structured around six-page memos,” Bezos says, pointing out that this also eliminates bullet points. “When you have to write your ideas out in complete sentences and complete paragraphs, it forces a deeper clarity of thinking.”Bezos believes that PowerPoint is easy for the presenter but difficult for the audience.
Are these behaviours workable in other organizations? OWL: PowerPoint Presentations. Organizing Your Argument Presentation.