Presentation Zen

A while ago I read the book “Presentation Zen” from Garr Reynolds. Garrs website can be found at Presentation Zen .

I must thank Oliver Gierke for the recommendation of the book.

The advice this book gives is actually very simple:

1.) Use lots of whitespace

2.) Avoid lot of text
3.) Avoid lots of bullet points

4.) Don’t treat powerpoint as a replacement for word
5.) Use a few nice looking pictures
6.) in extreme a presentation should be worthless without the presenter to explain it

You find nice introductions and examples in the following links.

How to create powerful presentations

Designing compelling presentations

If you have other good examples please let me know.

I really enjoy listening to presentations delivered in this format and if I have the opportunity to use this format I also have much more fun in presenting.