CREATING POWERFUL SLIDES FOR YOUR BIG MARKER WEBINAR

Morgan Summerfield Presents…

Rules of the Road

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Trained presenters In the writing ‘biz’ for many

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Agenda

• What should a slide do?

• What makes a bad slide?

• What makes a good slide?

• Choose Your Style

• General Recommendations

• Tips

• What program should I use?

• What format should I use?

• Questions

Bad vs. Good

What should a slide do?

Create a sense of welcome Support the subject Enhance the presentation Provide focus for attendees Foster clarity/understanding

What makes a bad slide?

Clutter Contradictions Poor Readability Too Much

Verbiage

What makes a good slide?

Components that Contribute

White Space Readability Color

What makes a good slide?

Components that Contribute

White Space Readability Color Consistency Key Speaking Points

What NOT to do on a slide.

Don’t let your ‘ego’ or your ‘artist’ create the presentation on their own. It will take cooperation from all your talents to create something that is readable and consistent that supports your ideas/concepts and actually helps the individual watching/listening understand what you are trying to convey. As you can see this slide color is not a good choice, nor is the font style/size/color. Where is the white space? Where are my contributing supporters? Is this my script? What happened to my audience. Ooops! They have left the presentation. Drat!

What makes a good slide?

What makes a good slide?

ONLY things that CONTRIBUTE to the message, point, idea, concept, suggestion, or learning should be on that slide.

What makes a good slide?

ONLY things that CONTRIBUTE to the message, point, idea, concept, suggestion, or learning should be on the slide.

Always ask yourself, IS IT RELEVANT?

Make a Plan

Choosing Your Style

Think about what you are presenting.

Establish a master slide using Colors Images Fonts

Why establish a master slide?

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Saves Time

Ensures Consisten

cy

Top Ten Ways To Be A Good Water Conservator

Presented by the Green Team at Alair Tech

First Steps Indoor faucets Outdoor water jacks Toilets Water pipes Septic tank Gray water

Quarterly Returns

Offshore Investments

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The Benefits of Elevator MusicMasks conversationKeeps people calmPrevents conversationMakes people sleepyPrevents people from hearing the gears squeakAllows people quiet timeDrives the pizza delivery kid crazy

The most valuable information in the world is worthless if no one receives

it.

World

Peace

No way I am going back in there!

Rules of Thumb

General Recommendations

White Background/Dark LetteringCool but

uncommon.

Cool but uncommon.

Cool but uncommon.

Cool but uncommon.

SO WE MAY MAINTAIN OUR TIMELINE, PLEASE…

Hold all questions until the end. Write down your questions.

If you are having technical issues, click on the big ? In the upper right corner of your screen for online help.

General Recommendations No More than Two Distinct Font

Styles

The quick red fox jumped over the sleeping brown dog. As the farmer chased the fox, he tripped over the dog and fell on his face.

General Recommendations Plenty of White Space

Don’t Overload

General Recommendations Graphics That Support or Add

Interest

General Recommendations Change It Up

Graphic

Graphic

Graphic

Graphic

Graphic

General Recommendations Proof Read

General Recommendations Proof read

Check PDF Conversion

General Recommendations Test Drive

Nuts and Bolts

Word Tips

Use ‘Page Layout’ to change page orientation to landscape.

Use ‘Insert’ to create a table to quadrant your page.

When you insert MOST graphics, the ‘Format’ tab automatically opens.

PowerPoint Tips – newer versions

Use the ‘Design’ tab to set up your master.

Use the ‘Insert’ tab to add clip art, photos, shapes, etc.

Use ‘Slide Show’ to see how your slide will look and ‘View’ to change to ‘Notes Pages.’

General Tips Help them ‘keep up’

General Tips Help them ‘keep up

Give information a chance to ‘fix’

General Tips Help them ‘keep up Give information a chance to

‘fix’ Give the presentation ‘wake up’

moments.

General Tips Help them ‘keep up Give information a chance to

‘fix’ Give the presentation ‘wake up’

moments.

The Home Stretch

What program should I use?

Whatever you are most

comfortable using.

What format should I use?

For the purposes of your Big Marker webinar, convert your file to PDF.

This is the upload format that Big Marker recommends.

It creates an image that remains constant and is not easily subject to corruption.

Questions

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