Are you doing powerpoint presentations?

I’m a sliderware evangelist, no I’m really not. Instead I’m always extra suspicious when a new software is presented as screnshots on a slide. The thing is that I do this myself quite often, sometimes I want to demonstrate a client case and simply don’t have access to live data, or the live data is too sensitive and must be replaced with public information. No matter the reason, powerpoints can be a really good aid during a presentation. But don’t forget that it’s you that present something, not PowerPoint.

Someone who knows this and a lot more about doing good presentations is Guy Kawasaki whos thoughts on how to do a good PP-presentation in the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint article is very useful:

The majority of the presentations that I see have text in a ten point font. As much text as possible is jammed into the slide, and then the presenter reads it. However, as soon as the audience figures out that you’re reading the text, it reads ahead of you because it can read faster than you can speak. The result is that you and the audience are out of synch.