Does Your Audience Hate You?

Rhyne Armstrong

for listening!

• Why does it matter? • The idea • The visuals • Preparing for the event • Game time

does it matter?

your passion

your hard work

you organized

Turns your audience

Wastes time…

You don’t know what

your idea

can be true…

with an outline

to a few main points

a format

tell a story

can be learned

by Garr Reynolds

by Nancy Duarte

by Nancy Duarte

by Dan Roam

by Kristin Arnold

depend on the format

is still rampant

• Keynote • Prezi.com • Prezentit • Powtoon

the text!

Your slide If your slide looks like this, I don’t want to be your friend

anymore. If you make slides like this, you are likely to be

compelled to read each and every word, exactly how it is

written on the screen. It isn’t that you are a bad person, it is

that you don’t care enough about other people to try to:

• Present your information so it will stick with them and keep

them awake while you are speaking.

• Keep from boring them to death. I tend to start doodling or

write short stories about audience members throwing things

at speakers.

• The least you could do is find a funny cat picture and stick it

in the middle somewhere. That would at least wake us up for

a few seconds. Who doesn’t like cat pictures?

design as handouts

design for slideshare

not crutches

matter

matter

matter

rule?

for the event

your system

test and customer data

fake, but possible data

stuff before the demo

pop-ups and noise makers

your visuals

yourself

…really

people you enjoy

to make yourself feel good

Get your

©Robert Giroux @ Flickr

Show up

Show up

Test it

Get some

Set the

Stay

Watch how you

Don’t apologize for being

Don’t set expectations

Use your

Make a

Stay on

Save room for

Be

End

Did you do

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