Simplify Your Slides

I gave this speech to my local Toastmasters group, over Zoom. We had been meeting on Zoom for a while and I wanted to give the other speakers my tips for using slidedeck software, like PowerPoint and Google Slides.

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1. Simplify Your Slides Ben Sweedler
2. It’s Zoom time 💻 The perfect time to get better at presentation software
3. Simplify Your Slides Problems I run into when adding slides to a presentation 1. Making slides takes too much time ⏰ 2. I end up with too many slides 😩 3. My slides have too much stuff on them 🖼
4. Using Slide Software VS.
5. Using Slide Software 1. Get a theme 🎁 and use it
6. Using Slide Software 1. Get a theme 🎁 and use it
7. Using Slide Software 1. Get a theme 🎁 and use it
8. Using Slide Software 1. Get a theme 🎁 and use it 2. Everything you need is in the slide software already ❤
9. Using Slide Software 1. Get a theme 🎁 and use it 2. Everything you need is in the slide software already ❤ 3. Go easy on the fancy features
10. Organizing a Slidedeck 1. It’s really easy to have too many slides 😩 2. Write your speech as a text document first ✍ 3. It’s okay to cut slides ✂
11. Organizing a Slidedeck
12. Designing Slides 1. Design your slides for the audience, not for yourself to read from 2. Negative space is amazing ✨ 3. The title of your slides is a powerful organizational tool 🏋
13. ⏰ Using Slide Software Simplify Your Slides ✍ Organizing Your Slide Deck ✨ Designing Your Slides
14. Thank You!