2 Dareberries today: where to share a PPT and how to make a great PPT August 6, 2008

Lately i was curious about Power Point. Theoretically i know what means to make a good presentation in PPT – i have learned that as part of my preparation for becoming a trainer.
It seems though that the trends in creating a PPT change quite often so i decided to write a dareberry on this.

A few years ago i was happy to attend a training on “how to make a winning PPT” from a world known training provider – it was not named exactly like that but this was the theme. I remember they recommended us to use 3 lines per slide and max 6 words per line.

Recently i have read “Presentation Zen” by Garr Reynolds and guess what? His advice is to have one sentence per slide! And i happen to agree so much! There are many many other interesting and useful things in Garr’s book. You should take a look at it.

The second dareberry is about good and bad PPTs and where to find them.
It’s still a BETA version, but it’s here – you can share your PPTs and see other people’s PPTs. Many of them have bad graphics but there are also many good ones, at least in matters of content. Or maybe i just happened to bump into bad ones cause i was trying to see how dull PPTs could get…happy browsing and …slidesing…