Slide deck I developed for a presentation delivery and design training for Text 100.

2. PowerPoint 102
Moving beyond the basics

3. OR

5. OR

14. This is where your generic title goes
 The titles usually add little to your main point
– Typical examples found in all presentations
 Objective
 Strategy
 Results
 The sub bullets are usually just read by the presenter
 This slide, aside from being boring, adds nothing to
the text I am currently reading to you.
 To combat the boredom, the presenter will add a
bunch of senseless animation to “jazz it up”
– I’ve spared you from this for now

15. What Are They Saying ?
• 95 percent of posts mentioned
Quality of Mention Tone of Posts
MATLAB. Only 4 percent of posts
mentioned The MathWorks.
• Half of all posts only mentioned
MATLAB in passing.
• 92 percent of posts were balanced
or neutral in tone
• The majority of posts consisted of
technical questions and answers to
engineering, math, and programming
problems.
• Questions related to: Product vs. Corporate Mentions Issues Driving Coverage Tone
• Specific projects being executed in Positive: MATLAB described as a “wonderful
MATLAB commercial product”
• Specific MATLAB code and Negative: Users describe having problems
functionality, (e.g. “How to run upgrading to new versions of MATLAB
multiple programs in Simulink
without having to run them Neutral:
individually?”) • Students and engineers post technical
• Reviews of/help related to different questions involving MATLAB in online forums
versions of MATLAB • MATLAB users share code and programming
tips
• Posts were written for a technical
audience and presumed detailed • Students and professionals request notebook
knowledge of computer science, purchasing advice on review sites and note
engineering, etc. computer must be able to run programs like
MATLAB efficiently
15

16. SLIDE-ument
PRESENT-ation

19. Go analogue
Ask questions
Get away

26. HUNGRY?

28. if I NEED

30. TheRe is n J
Comic Sans

31. The ‘Stick’ Rules
Pick a Font and stick to it.
Choose a color palette and stick to it.
Choose three text sizes and stick to them.

35. Know Your Tools