Usually we start right of with opening power point and start making slides. In the video above the argument is made that this habit is to soon, it explains clearly why. Several other methods used when making a presentation calls for makings slides far way up on the road to building your presentation. The presenter in this video is known for his Extreme Presentation Method. With this previous link you can see the 10 steps for building a presentation with this method. You can also download a pdf file of the Extreme Presentation Method overview and print it out. I have reviewed the book mentioned on the website here: The Extreme Presentation Method.
Surely other methods are also available for making a presentation, another one is Beyond Bullet Points or Resonate by Nancy Duarte, her company made the famous presentation by Al Gore with his presentation: An Inconvenient Truth.
This is a very long video but it addresses some useful tips and tricks how to make nice slides in powerpoint. It starts with a ballroom presentation or a presentation without bullet points. This will get you updated on death with powerpoint and how to create slides for different audiences. The biggest part is on how to create those slides. This topic is usually not covered in the books on presentations.
Presentations these days have outgrown the bullet points presentation we’re used to with powerpoint. Using presentations with only bullet points is out. There is even a new phrase for these presentations: Death by Powerpoint meaning killing your audience with boring PowerPoint presentations. Flickr has a group with pictures of lethal powerpoint slides.
This book itself is well designed, it looks beautiful. Moreover it has a lot of examples for good use of effective visual expression. It clearly describes the design part of making slides. It starts of with knowing your audience and creating ideas, using for instance post it notes for building ideas for your presentation. Making a presentation doesn’t start with firing up power point.
After explaining how to start the set up of a presentation, using diagrams and data the book quickly starts with the design part which is the main topic of this book. Arranging elements and using these visual elements such as images, background, color, and text.
The book also has a website: www.slideology.com with some nice examples of using panoramas with slides and creating scenes with slides.
Very good book, well designed, focuses on design. It is not a book on how to make those designs. It teaches you the basic of design, the process of design but not how to implement these lessons. It is in that way comparable to Presentation Zen, also recently reviewed on this blog. Both differ from Beyond Bullet Points which focuses on the content of the presentation and has a few examples of how to design nice slides. Also recently reviewed on this blog. So I am waiting for a good how to book. How to implement those design rules in PowerPoint. Can anyone recommend a book for implementing this kind of design in powerpoint? Pleas let me know in the comments
