This presentation, for STC Atlanta, discusses how to prepare and pull off a presentation without your audience hating you!

2. Rhyne Armstrong

3. for listening!

5. • Why does it matter?
• The idea
• The visuals
• Preparing for the event
• Game time

6. does it matter?

7. your passion

8. your hard work

9. you organized

11. Turns your audience

12. Wastes time…

13. You don’t know what

14. your idea

16. can be true…

17. with an outline

18. to a few main points

19. a format

20. tell a story

21. can be learned

22. by Garr Reynolds
by Nancy Duarte
by Nancy Duarte
by Dan Roam
by Kristin Arnold

24. depend on the format

25. is still rampant

26. • Keynote
• Prezi.com
• Prezentit
• Powtoon

27. the text!

28. Your slide
If your slide looks like this, I don’t want to be your friend
anymore. If you make slides like this, you are likely to be
compelled to read each and every word, exactly how it is
written on the screen. It isn’t that you are a bad person, it is
that you don’t care enough about other people to try to:
• Present your information so it will stick with them and keep
them awake while you are speaking.
• Keep from boring them to death. I tend to start doodling or
write short stories about audience members throwing things
at speakers.
• The least you could do is find a funny cat picture and stick it
in the middle somewhere. That would at least wake us up for
a few seconds. Who doesn’t like cat pictures?

30. design as handouts

31. design for slideshare

32. not crutches

33. matter

35. matter

38. matter

40. rule?

41. for the event

42. your system

43. test and customer data

44. fake, but possible data

46. stuff before the demo

47. pop-ups and noise makers

49. your visuals

51. yourself

52. …really

53. people you enjoy

54. to make yourself feel good

55. Get your

56. ©Robert Giroux @ Flickr

58. Show up

59. Show up

60. Test it

61. Get some

62. Set the

63. Stay

64. Watch how you

65. Don’t apologize for being

66. Don’t set expectations

67. Use your

68. Make a

69. Stay on

71. Save room for

72. Be

73. End

74. Did you do

75. @ninety7
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