great advice for using slideware
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This collection of quotes will give great advice to anyone developing a presentation that wants to use PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezi, or any other slideware.TRANSCRIPT
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PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you
in another way, an artistic way. David Byrne
Lead Singer, Talking Heads
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“Make slides that reinforce your words, not repeat them.” Seth Godin, Marketing Guru
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“People can only process one inbound message at a time. They will either listen to you or read your slides; they cannot do both.” Nancy Duarte, Author Resonate
Photo by Kevan Davis, via Flickr
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“Bullets are for the NRA.” Seth Godin, Marketing Guru
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“Slides are slides. D
ocuments are documents.
They aren’t the same thing.”
Garr Reynolds, A
uthor Presentation Zen
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“Burn your current PowerPoint presentations!and make new ones.”!
John Medina, Neuroscientist
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“If all you want to do is create a file of facts and figures, then cancel the meeting and send in a report.” !Seth Godin, Marketing Guru
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“A traditional slide that duplicates the presenter’s words is more of a reading test than a visual.”
Garr Reynolds, Author Presentation Zen
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“Brain Rule #10: Vision trumps all the other senses.”
John Medina, Neuroscientist
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“Your goal is to move away from projecting a document
and toward giving a presentation.” Nancy Duarte, Author, Resonate
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“Attempting to have slides serve both as projected visuals and as stand-alone handouts makes for bad visuals and bad documentation.” Garr Reynolds, Author Presentation Zen
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“Hear a piece of information, and three days later you'll remember 10% of it. Add a picture and you'll remember 65%.” John Medina, Neuroscientist
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“[Presentation technologies] are only useful to the degree that they make things clearer and more memorable.” Garr Reynolds, Author Presentation Zen
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“PowerPoint doesn’t kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it.” Peter Norvig, Google Director of Research
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“Simplify the slides so the audience can process each one in under !three seconds.” !
Nancy Duarte, Author Resonate
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“Slideware is not meant for your speaker notes. It’s just not.”!
David Christianson, Normal Guy
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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Leonardo da Vinci, Real Renaissance Man
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“We learn and remember best through pictures,!not through written or spoken words”!
John Medina, Neuroscientist