How to stop annoying audiences with bad PowerPoint


	How to stop annoying audiences with bad PowerPoint

masbury

5-3-2008 1:49 PM

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Survey of what annoys and how to fix it

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9b27892d-9acd-4c98-8383-b6f02b75edde/A2BEC908-A1D0-4FE6-8D97-4A913E68B736/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.indezine.com/ideas/davesurvey.html" href="http://www.indezine.com/ideas/davesurvey.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.indezine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indezine.com/ideas/davesurvey.html"><H1>Survey Shows How to Stop Annoying Audiences
  With Bad PowerPoint</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indezine.com/ideas/davesurvey.html"><TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#e2e2e2"><TBODY><TR><TD><B>The speaker read the slides to us</B></TD><TD><B>60.4%</B></TD></TR><TR><TD><B>Text so small I couldn't read it </B></TD><TD><B>50.9%</B></TD></TR><TR><TD><B>Full sentences instead of bullet points</B></TD><TD><B>47.8%</B></TD></TR><TR><TD><B>Slides hard to see because of color choice</B></TD><TD><B>37.1%</B></TD></TR><TR><TD><B>Moving/flying text or graphics </B></TD><TD><B>24.5%</B></TD></TR><TR><TD height="13"><B>Annoying use of sounds</B></TD><TD height="13"><B>22.0%</B></TD></TR><TR><TD><B>Overly complex diagrams or charts</B></TD><TD><B>22.0%</B></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indezine.com/ideas/davesurvey.html"><P>Three common themes emerged from the free-form comments:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indezine.com/ideas/davesurvey.html">Poor Preparation of the Presentation </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indezine.com/ideas/davesurvey.html">Balance of Slide Elements</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indezine.com/ideas/davesurvey.html">Not Knowing How to Use the Technology</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indezine.com/ideas/davesurvey.html">41.5% of the respondents said that more than 40% of
              the presentations they see contain annoying elements</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indezine.com/ideas/davesurvey.html">Microsoft’s statistics indicate
              that there are</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indezine.com/ideas/davesurvey.html">30 million PowerPoint presentations done each day</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indezine.com/ideas/davesurvey.html"><H2>Conclusions<A id="Conclusions" name="Conclusions"></A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indezine.com/ideas/davesurvey.html">Too many presenters have used PowerPoint slides
              as a substitute for themselves and think that the slides are the
              presentation</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indezine.com/ideas/davesurvey.html">presenters
              must only put the key points on the slide and add to the point
              with the depth of information that they share verbally</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A2BEC908-A1D0-4FE6-8D97-4A913E68B736/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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