Ignite Sydney sparks up

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• 12 x 20 = 240 slides/hour still "death by PowerPoint"

  With only five minutes, and really only needing to cover two points at most, why have a slide at all. Just need a poster! It doesn't matter how long a presentation is, you still need to introduce it and conclude it (with some coherence between them!).
  
  I find that too many presenters try to cram a lot of information into their presentations so that there is breadth, but not enough depth.
  
  Supply the depth (in an engaging way) and participants will want to look at more.

  

  anonymous

  25 January, 2009 02:47

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• why use slides?

  Patanjali raises a good point - why have slides at all?
  
  We considered this for Ignite Sydney and decided that an interesting talk without slides is great, but Toastmasters already do this well.
  
  We wanted to showcase a new, fun and interesting format, and felt that well-designed slides can deliver this.
  
  We will be uploading video footage of the Ignite Sydney presentations shortly, and I invite Patanjali and others to decide for themselves whether the presentations were enhanced by the inclusion of slides.

  

  anonymous

  27 January, 2009 00:50

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