Comments on: Everything I Know About Giving Presentations I Learned from the Government http://matthewburton.org/wordpress/5/ Occasional Notes Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:22:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ralph Hitchens http://matthewburton.org/wordpress/5/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Ralph Hitchens Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:17:38 +0000 http://www.impublished.org/wordpress/?p=5#comment-7 Good rules of thumb. Re. #1, though, PowerPoint is here to stay, Edward Tufte notwithstanding, and the aim should be to teach people how to use it more effectively rather than "only if absolutely necessary." Your overall approach is proper -- know what you're talking about and use visuals to reinforce it. Re. #4, good objective but really a non-starter these days. EVERY conference organizer wants your slides in advance, to copy & distribute. So slides with sparse text are good because they leave lots of space for note-taking. Ralph Hitchens ex-DOE Intelligence & Army Intelligence Good rules of thumb. Re. #1, though, PowerPoint is here to stay, Edward Tufte notwithstanding, and the aim should be to teach people how to use it more effectively rather than “only if absolutely necessary.” Your overall approach is proper — know what you’re talking about and use visuals to reinforce it. Re. #4, good objective but really a non-starter these days. EVERY conference organizer wants your slides in advance, to copy & distribute. So slides with sparse text are good because they leave lots of space for note-taking.

Ralph Hitchens
ex-DOE Intelligence & Army Intelligence

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