2. Presentations
That Work

3. Looking Ahead

4. The Three Parts

5. The Three Parts
• Your slides
• You and your audience
• Your handouts

6. Part One
Your Slides

9. Elegant
Design

11. Reflect
Your
Message

13. Grab Attention

15. Stand Out

16. Simplicity
Emotional Impact

17. Simplicity

18. Short, Clear Headlines

19. Short, Clear Headline

20. Short, Clear Headline
Subhead that supports the headline

21. Short, Clear Headline
Subhead that supports the headline
• Four legible bullet points, tops

22. Short, Clear Headline
Subhead that supports the headline
• Four legible bullet points, tops
✴Never use sub-bullets

23. Short, Clear Headline
Subhead that supports the headline
• Four legible bullet points, tops
✴Never use sub-bullets
• Give them breathing room

24. Short, Clear Headline
Subhead that supports the headline
• Four legible bullet points, tops
✴Never use sub-bullets
• Give them breathing room
• Keep bullets short, active

25. Short, Clear Headline
Subhead that supports the headline
• Four legible bullet points, tops
✴Never use sub-bullets
• Give them breathing room
• Keep bullets short, active
• Don’t use decorative fonts

26. For all our sakes

27. For all our sakes
never use clipart

28. Don’t Use Junk

29. Don’t Use Junk
That detracts from your message

30. Don’t Use Junk
That detracts from your message
The commuter challenge

31. Don’t Use Junk
That detracts from your message
The commuter challenge
Page 3

32. Don’t Use Junk
That detracts from your message
The commuter challenge
w8nc inc. Page 3

33. Don’t Use Junk
That detracts from your message
The commuter challenge
October, 2006 w8nc inc. Page 3

34. Don’t Use Junk
That detracts from your message
The commuter challenge
October, 2006 w8nc inc. Page 3

35. Don’t Use Junk
That detracts from your message
The commuter challenge
October, 2006 w8nc inc. Page 3

36. Don’t Use Junk
That detracts from your message
The commuter challenge
October, 2006 w8nc inc. Page 3

37. Emotional Impact

38. Faces

39. Faces

40. Faces

41. Faces

42. Faces

44. Spoken Word Poetry
an ANTHROPOLOGICAL search for meaning
In this presentation I will be looking at the roots of
spoken word poetry in Toronto, and in Canada in general.
The key ethnographic issues I will discuss will include:
•The African griot* roots of dub and spoken word
•Spoken word and rap, what’s the same?
•Is spoken word poetry being appropriate
•The slavery tradition and North American oral poetry
•Spoken word and the oral tradition historically
Everybody’s got a story that’ll break your heart.
-Amanda Marshall
* type of African storytelling, see Jameson’s “African Traditions, Page 43”
Spoken Word Poetry Page 7

46. Details Tell
Stories

48. Detailed Data Deadens

49. Don’t Insult Your Audience
Southwest Regions, Dataset Projections
Of note here is the 3.4%
increase in the Q1 results
compared to the 45%
decrease predicted in last
quarter’s projections
Lumber Sales Q1

50. Make An Effort
Projected -45%
Actual +3.4%
We’re nearly 50% ahead
of our lumber sales projections

52. 12 weeks

53. 12 weeks
40,000 page views

54. What ensemble is not

55. What ensemble is not
• A traditional write-only website

56. What ensemble is not
• A traditional write-only website
• A content management system

57. What ensemble is not
• A traditional write-only website
• A content management system
• Centralized

58. What ensemble is not
• A traditional write-only website
• A content management system
• Centralized
• Complex

59. Summing Up
Slides are the simple,
emotional support
for your message.

60. Part Two
You, and Your
Audience

61. Summing Up
Excite

62. Engage

63. Don’t Enervate

64. Ignore the Tech
Ig

65. Eye Contact

66. Tell Stories

68. Summing Up
Use your time to
connect in a human
way with your
audience.

69. Part Three
Your Handouts

70. Vital Info
Branding
Details
Contact Info
Links
Bibliography

71. Summing Up
Leave the data
and details to your
handout, which
should not be
your slides.

72. The Whole Show