1. PRESENTATION REVIEW

2. CREATING ANDDELIVERINGTECHNICALPRESENTATIONSDr. Ronald E. Jones

3. THINGSTO THINKABOUT The WoW Factor

4. You have to do a presentation. Don’t you just hate that?

5. The Last Worthless Slide • Never use a • slide for just • filling space • while you talk!

6. Dollar $$$ Value What’s your presentation worth? Calculate VPH (Value Per Hour) • A. Project Value =  $10,000 • B. Prep Time Allocated =  20 hours • $10,000 ÷ 20  =  500 Preparation Time Value  = $500per hour

7. SOMEAUDIENCESTUFF The WoW Factor

8. Your Audience • Are they Prepared • Are they Unprepared • Their Interest Level • Their Comfort Level • Forced to Attend • Working the Crowd

9. The Audience • A Prepared Audience • Do not underestimate • Assume low–to–high, but mostly high expertise • Speaker must be prepared

10. Your Audience • An Unprepared Audience • May lose interest rapidly • Assume mostly low expertise • Assume some high expertise • Speaker must be broadly prepared

11. Your Audience • What is their Interest Level • Identify their interests • Keep interest up • Listen to the audience • Watch the audience

12. Your Audience • What is their Comfort Level • Avoid “techno–jargon” • Don’t go over their heads

13. Your Audience • Are they Forced to Attend • Classic “forced-attendance” situation at work or Won’t this be fun?

14. Your Audience • Working the Crowd • Humor • Involvement • Eye contact

15. What’s Your Point? • Your Purpose • Inform • Instruct • Convince • Activate

16. PLANNINGTHESETHINGS The WoW Factor

17. Presentation Formula • ANSVA • Attention • Need • Satisfaction • Visualization • Action

18. How Long? • Presentation Length • Planning • Writing

19. Planning Tools • Non-Linear Thinking • Outlining • Storyboarding

20. Non-Linear Thinking • Brainstorming • Telling a story

21. Outline View The Outline View is created automatically and without graphics as you add new slides. Use this view to check sequence, logic, and “flow” of information.

22. Storyboarding Tools • For the visually oriented • Popular with designers • Great visual planner

23. Storyboard Techniques Your Audience Your Audience Your Audience • Prepared • Unprepared • Interest Level • Comfort Level Your Audience Your Audience Your Audience

24. Storyboard Tools A screen shot of the slide sorter

25. MEDIAANDEQUIPMENTINFO The WoW Factor

26. Media • Presentation Boards • Overheads • Slides • Computer • DLP Projectors

27. Presentation Boards • Freestanding • Mobile • Low Cost • Touchable • Easily Damaged

28. Overheads • Use with no light control • B & W are inexpensive • Never write on them • Horizontal format only • 6 by 6 constraint

29. Overheads - No No!

30. Overheads - More No No! What you are about to see is a real transparency, used in a real presentation, to a real audience. It really looked like this. Really!

31. Slides • Use with light control • Best possible color • Easily replaceable • Horizontal format only • 6 by 6 constraint

32. Computer • Dynamic – Constant Replay • Strong Color • Small Audience

33. DLP Projectors • Good images • Great for animation such as “Builds” • Equipment to set up • Better Brightness • Most expensive

34. High Low Presentation Boards Overheads Slides Computer LCD/ DLP Media—Failure Factor

35. THE REALTECHNICALSTUFF The WoW Factor

36. Technical Production • Layout • Color • Format • Type • Line Art • Photographs • Animation

37. Layout—Master Pages • Efficient • Consistent • Easy

38. Backgrounds—Light • Dark background with light type • Light background with dark type

39. Backgrounds —Dark

40. Color • Don’tover-use • Relyoncolorschemes • Talkto adesigner, please! • Black-and-white can be really effective

41. Formatting Type • Flush Left – Ragged Right • Flush Right – Ragged Left • Centered • Justified

42. There are various options with type alignment. Flush left with ragged right is the easiest way to read a line of type printed on a sheet of paper. Formatting Type • Flush Left - Ragged Right

43. Great for titles. May look unique but is hard to read for normal text. Use sparingly. See example on next slide. Formatting Type • Flush Right - Ragged Left

44. Great for titles or alternative layout techniques but difficult to read for normal text especially if the presenter utilizes lengthy wording with narrow columns. Formatting Type • Centered

45. With both sides of the column even, justified text significantly enhances gaps in the text and may occasionally lead to odd word spacing. Do not use. Formatting Type • Justified

46. Working with Type • Must Be Easy to Read • Type Size • Type Style

47. Type Sizes 72 point 60 point 44 point 36 point 28 point 24 point 18 point 14 point 12 point 10 point

48. 48 point 40 point 32 point Type Sizes • Easy to Read • Type Size

49. Serif Little “feet” on the type. Serif type - bold Serif type - bold italic Type Styles Sans serif Sans serif - bold Sans serif - bold italic

50. Type Styles - No, No!