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Tips for More Effective PowerPoint Design in 2009

By Amarendra Bhushan for CEOWORLD Magazine Updated:January 21, 2009

PowerPoint slides are a visual aid intended to support your oral delivery–not to replace it. Good slides are good pictures. They are a visual representation of what you are saying, attractive to look at and easy to understand just by glancing at them. They are an enhancement, a simplification or an addition. They don’t require interpretation, explanation or reading.

Professional tips for high-impact slides:

Be sure to make your presentation appropriate for the audience in which you are going to present it to!
Be sure to make your presentations easy to read
choose a dark color–never use a white background
look for a background image that adds dimension and depth to the screen
use pictures that are a metaphor for your message
photoshop an appropriate image and use it as background for the whole slide–not as a little insert
use the biggest font you can–72 points is best, 36 points is minimum
don’t use cheesy clipart images
aim for consistency–pictures that help you tell a coherent story
get professional help or buy professional images when professionalism is important to you.
Plan your content first
One idea per slide
Support the headline with graphic evidence
You don’t always need a slide- Put detail in the handouts
Add your own information and experience to the presentation

Can i put my PowerPoint Presentation on an iPhone?

There are many portal provides such service. Let’s look at the features available to you on authorstream which is free to use.

Send to YouTube If you had set up ‘Rehearsed Timings’ or have recorded audio ‘Narrations’ in your PowerPoint file, they would automatically be available in a video format (MP4 or M4V) which can be shared on YouTube via send to YouTube feature.

Share on iPod via iTunes Your presentations will also be available to be downloaded in iTunes. Your viewers can then sync their iPods and have your presentations available even when they are not online!

Download PowerPoint As a viewer, you can now download PowerPoint files if their respective authors have given their permission to do so. This is a great feature for those who like presentations and want to use a slide or two to enrich their own.

Featured Audio/Animation Presentations Cool presentations get featured and you can view them categorized as Featured Presentations, Featured Audio Presentations and Featured Animated Presentations.

RSS Feeds Subscribe to the RSS feeds for categorized groups of slideshows as well as customized feeds for users and tags.

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