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Articles: Delivery - 3 views

  • Get closer to your audience by moving away from or in front of the podium.
    • carolborchard
       
      I appreciate the speaker who moves to the side or front of the podium. However I do not like it when a speaker moves all over the room. My neck and back get tired twisting around to watch while I listen.
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AEA PD Online: Log in to the site - 0 views

  • there’s beauty and clarity in restraint. Use simple visuals that support your message, and you’ll free people up to really hear — and adopt — your ideas.
  • direct people’s eyes to certain areas of a slide to emphasize important points.
  • 24 pt
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  • two lines might even be too much.
  • Focus on the main phrases
  • add one relevant image
  • The trick becomes finding just the right image(s)
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Articles: Preparation - 1 views

    • carolborchard
       
      These are good to remember!
  • remember only three things
  • audience?
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  • audience?
  • audience?
  • Visuals should be big, bold, clear, and easy to see.
  • Make your presentation—visuals and narration—participatory.
  • ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.
  • ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.
    • carolborchard
       
      I wish I could highlight the list or put some symbol by it so I could see it easier later.
  • find out the age of the oldest person in your audience and divide it by two. That’s your optimal font size.
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Articles: Presentation "Awakening" - 0 views

  • it’s long past time that we realized that putting the same information on a slide that is coming out of our mouths usually does not help — in fact usually hurts our message.
    • carolborchard
       
      I have a hard time remembering a presentation where the speaker didn't read from the powerpoint. I remember thinking each time, "I can read this myself. This is a waste of my time."
  • If everyone in the room agreed with you, you wouldn’t need to do a presentation, would you?
    • carolborchard
       
      Haha! That makes me laugh!
  • Bullets Are For the NRA
    • carolborchard
       
      I enjoy how the author writes. It's effective for me.
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  • five rules you need to remember to create amazing Powerpoint presentations:
    • carolborchard
       
      "five rules" but lists six. Good points to remember, though.
  • “sticky” ideas have six key principles in common: simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotions, and stories. And yes, these six compress nicely into the acronym SUCCESs.
    • carolborchard
       
      Nice acronym.
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