Should you use PowerPoint to supplement presentation?

<To use or not to use?>

It depends

(1) Who you are?

"Yes We Can"

An inconvenient truth

一轆廢柴 ~講廢話 !

“你係全港最貴既废柴 !"

Mr. Lam, you are the most expensive

dead wood in HK

<To use or not to use?>

(2) What you are presenting?

Business presentation

Yes

<The question is>

How to do better?

(1) Avoid at all costs

Most common PowerPoint mistake

1)People tend to put every word they are going to say on their PowerPoint slides. Although this eliminates the need to memories your talk, ultimately this makes your slides crowded, wordy, and boring. You will lose your audience’s attention before you even reach the bottom of your………

Most common PowerPoint mistake

1-continued)…….first slide.

• Bullet- Pointing

• Avoid

• Excess

• Only

• Key

• Bullet

• Too

• And

• Points.

• Many

• Your

• Bullet-Points

• Messages

• Key

• Will

• The

• Not

• Term

• Stand

• “Bullet-Points”

• Out.

• Comes

• In fact,

• From

• Presenters

• Annoying

• Guns At

• Firing

• People

<OK>

How to do better?

(2) Use research-based methods

By Richard Mayer Professor of Psychology

<1>

Learn better when extraneous info removed

69%

105%

retention transfer

<example>

For years, the media recognized Enron as a “most-admired company”

<2>

Learn better when no duplication between say & show

28%

79%

retention transfer

<example>

Blogs are like sharks

• A sharks must keep moving or die

• A blog must be regularly updated or it too will die

• How often should you update your blog?

• Some successful blogs are updated once a week, others several times a day.

• The key is to be consisitent.

Blog like a Pro Conference ‘08December 15, 2008

Blogs are like sharks

<conclusion>

Blogs are like sharks

Slides with few words, mainly pictures

Say the words through your month

Beyond bullet-points,

Go visual