The next in our GeekFeast series is all about Slides and Presentation – what makes a bad presentation, how you can fix it and how you can design great presentations:
top 20 reasons presentations suck and how to fix them
A very good artcile that goes through 20 mistakes that you can make when designing and giving presentations.
It delivers the mistakes simply and effectively and then explains why they happen and how you can fix them.
How to Design a Professional Powerpoint Presentation
This article by Joshua Johnson walks you through the many aspects of presentation and slide design and presents them in a single easy to understand way, both educating and inspiring. He covers colour selection, choosing a font, using images, layout and alignment.
Presto! 5 Steps to Magically Fix a Boring Presentation
Image: Sophie Beck
Paul Barsch looks at what to do when you have to give a presentation that is “less than interesting” and outlines 5 practical tips to add some life and vitality into it to ensure that both you and your audience gets something out of it and maybe even enjoys the experience…
GIVE ME THE HAMMERS HAMMERING
R. L. Howser expresses his frustration at some of the stock photography available. How it is so difficult to find the right image to fit the message that you want to convey. How he doesn’t just want any photo of a hammer, he wants to hear the hammers hammering…