Powerpoint Skills

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Creating Cool Slides!

What’s wrong with the following?

So what was wrong?

Too many words!

No Images

Slides double as hand-outshand-outs

Slides used as data dumps

Ultimate Effect?

Booooo-ring!

So, here are some easy-to-remember

tips…

Use Images to carry the message…

…and evoke emotion

Never use clipart!

Make only ONE point per slide

6Words. Per. Slide. Max!

Finally, if you want only text…

JUMP OUT!

Make sure they

• Make• Sure• Bullet-Points• Aren’t• Shown• All-at-once

Credits

• Free Prize Inside: The Next Big Marketing Idea, Seth Godin, Portfolio Trade, 2007

• Death By Powerpoint (and How to Fight It), Alexei Kapterev http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint/1

• http://flickr.com (photos)