More about PowerPoint

Listen to the experts explain the rationale:

Melissa Marshall's description of effective presentations sold me on the idea that I could do a much better job ... and I've been presenting suc cessfully for years! I listend to her TED talk and realized that I've embraced her concept to a certain extent, but I knew that I could do better....

David JP Phillips TED talk, How to Avoid Death by Powerpoint, builds upon Melissa's simple message with five rules for effective powerpoints.  David gave me some specifics that made improvement easy.

• ONE message per slide
• Use CONTRAST – makes your point pop out
• Most important = LARGEST size font
• One simple sentence 
• Dark background
• No more than SIX elements per slide

There are LOTS of presenters giving us much the same advice. We should LISTEN

And for those specifics situations,