Tips for making effective presentations

摘要

In recent years, PowerPoint and similar tools have revolutionized presentations, and it is easy to assume that the quality of slides and presentations has greatly improved. To the contrary, the general quality of both has suffered, perhaps in large part because of the ready availability of these tools. It is so quick and easy to enter lots of words and pictures into slides that the message is sometimes buried. Slides with too much detail overwhelm the listener and confuse the main point. It bears repeating: show only those slides that most effectively communicate your points.