Slide 1

Slide 1 text

Level Up Your Presentations

Slide 2

Slide 2 text

You are the subject matter expert.

Slide 3

Slide 3 text

Sh*t happens.

Slide 4

Slide 4 text

We’ve got you covered.

Slide 5

Slide 5 text

Why?

Slide 6

Slide 6 text

Why? • Keep your audience engaged

Slide 7

Slide 7 text

Why? • Keep your audience engaged • Look fairly impressive

Slide 8

Slide 8 text

Why? • Keep your audience engaged • Look fairly impressive • Quantitatively measure your impact

Slide 9

Slide 9 text

Why? • Keep your audience engaged • Look fairly impressive • Quantitatively measure your impact • Create a resource for a broader audience

Slide 10

Slide 10 text

Why? • Keep your audience engaged • Look fairly impressive • Quantitatively measure your impact • Create a resource for a broader audience • Be stress-free

Slide 11

Slide 11 text

We are not

Slide 12

Slide 12 text

We are not • adding fancypants animations

Slide 13

Slide 13 text

We are not • adding fancypants animations • adding more chances for things to break

Slide 14

Slide 14 text

We are not • adding fancypants animations • adding more chances for things to break • adding more work for the Marketing team

Slide 15

Slide 15 text

What we'll talk about

Slide 16

Slide 16 text

What we'll talk about 1.Make your presentation file foolproof

Slide 17

Slide 17 text

What we'll talk about 1.Make your presentation file foolproof 2.Create an online resource for your audience

Slide 18

Slide 18 text

What we'll talk about 1.Make your presentation file foolproof 2.Create an online resource for your audience 3.Help the Marketing team promote you

Slide 19

Slide 19 text

Make your file foolproof

Slide 20

Slide 20 text

Foolproof slide design

Slide 21

Slide 21 text

Foolproof slide design • PowerPoint templates on the wiki

Slide 22

Slide 22 text

Foolproof slide design • PowerPoint templates on the wiki • Utilize your presenter notes

Slide 23

Slide 23 text

No content

Slide 24

Slide 24 text

Foolproof slide design • PowerPoint templates on the wiki • Utilize your presenter notes • Use Master Templates

Slide 25

Slide 25 text

No content

Slide 26

Slide 26 text

No content

Slide 27

Slide 27 text

Know your aspect ratio

Slide 28

Slide 28 text

Know your aspect ratio

Slide 29

Slide 29 text

Mind your fonts Use two maximum.

Slide 30

Slide 30 text

Mind your fonts Use two maximum. 1.Main content font (95% of your text)

Slide 31

Slide 31 text

Mind your fonts Use two maximum. 1.Main content font (95% of your text) 2.Accents like headers, notes or code

Slide 32

Slide 32 text

Short code slides

Slide 33

Slide 33 text

Type tips

Slide 34

Slide 34 text

Type tips • NEVER USE ALL CAPS. It's actually harder to read.

Slide 35

Slide 35 text

Type tips • NEVER USE ALL CAPS. It's actually harder to read. • Use at least 48pt.

Slide 36

Slide 36 text

Type tips • NEVER USE ALL CAPS. It's actually harder to read. • Use at least 48pt. • Aim for five word bullets.

Slide 37

Slide 37 text

Type tips • NEVER USE ALL CAPS. It's actually harder to read. • Use at least 48pt. • Aim for five word bullets. • Don't let slides do your job for you.

Slide 38

Slide 38 text

Mind your colors Use three maximum.

Slide 39

Slide 39 text

Mind your colors Use three maximum. 1.Main content color (98% of your everything)

Slide 40

Slide 40 text

Mind your colors Use three maximum. 1.Main content color (98% of your everything) 2.New chapter/content transition

Slide 41

Slide 41 text

Mind your colors Use three maximum. 1.Main content color (98% of your everything) 2.New chapter/content transition 3.Accents like notes or highlighting

Slide 42

Slide 42 text

Save your colors

Slide 43

Slide 43 text

Organize Your Content

Slide 44

Slide 44 text

Organize Your Content 1. Landscape here's what exists

Slide 45

Slide 45 text

Organize Your Content 1. Landscape 2. Analysis here's what I see

Slide 46

Slide 46 text

Organize Your Content 1. Landscape 2. Analysis 3. Problem at the core is this issue

Slide 47

Slide 47 text

Organize Your Content 1. Landscape 2. Analysis 3. Problem 4. Options here's what we could do

Slide 48

Slide 48 text

Organize Your Content 1. Landscape 2. Analysis 3. Problem 4. Options 5. Solution here's the best option and how it works

Slide 49

Slide 49 text

Organize Your Content 1. Landscape 2. Analysis 3. Problem 4. Options 5. Solution 6. Reasons why you should believe

Slide 50

Slide 50 text

Organize Your Content 1. Landscape 2. Analysis 3. Problem 4. Options 5. Solution 6. Reasons 7. Bigger idea why this concept matters to you even if it is irrelevant to your day-to-day

Slide 51

Slide 51 text

Engage your audience

Slide 52

Slide 52 text

Engage your audience • "Raise your hand if..."

Slide 53

Slide 53 text

Engage your audience • "Raise your hand if..." • "Send me your results on Twitter and the winner gets a Dyn tshirt"

Slide 54

Slide 54 text

Engage your audience • "Raise your hand if..." • "Send me your results on Twitter and the winner gets a Dyn tshirt" • Make a little joke (with words or on the slide)

Slide 55

Slide 55 text

Avoid transitions & animations

Slide 56

Slide 56 text

Avoid transitions & animations • Click lag creates unpredictability

Slide 57

Slide 57 text

Avoid transitions & animations • Click lag creates unpredictability • Create a new slide for each bullet transition

Slide 58

Slide 58 text

Every computer can show a PDF

Slide 59

Slide 59 text

Every computer can show a PDF

Slide 60

Slide 60 text

Save a Dropbox public link

Slide 61

Slide 61 text

Create an online presence

Slide 62

Slide 62 text

Convert links to bit.ly

Slide 63

Slide 63 text

Convert links to bit.ly • Use custom bit.ly links: bit.ly/abtest instead of bit.ly/mVtJ1L

Slide 64

Slide 64 text

Convert links to bit.ly • Use custom bit.ly links: bit.ly/abtest instead of bit.ly/mVtJ1L • Create a bit.ly profile and save them there

Slide 65

Slide 65 text

Use Speaker Deck or Slideshare

Slide 66

Slide 66 text

Use Speaker Deck or Slideshare

Slide 67

Slide 67 text

Add yourself on SpeakerRate

Slide 68

Slide 68 text

Dyn.com your slides and links

Slide 69

Slide 69 text

Automatic tweeting • bit.ly/autotweet-keynote

Slide 70

Slide 70 text

Automatic tweeting • bit.ly/autotweet-keynote • Requires Keynote + some patience

Slide 71

Slide 71 text

Automatic tweeting • bit.ly/autotweet-keynote • Requires Keynote + some patience • Uses your presentation notes area to send out tweets automatically

Slide 72

Slide 72 text

Help the Marketing team promote you

Slide 73

Slide 73 text

Dearest Marketing Team:

Slide 74

Slide 74 text

Dearest Marketing Team: • The title of my talk is "Level Up Your Presentations"

Slide 75

Slide 75 text

Dearest Marketing Team: • The title of my talk is "Level Up Your Presentations" • Relevant hashtags are #ux and #velocityconf

Slide 76

Slide 76 text

Dearest Marketing Team: • The title of my talk is "Level Up Your Presentations" • Relevant hashtags are #ux and #velocityconf • The slides and resources are at dyn.com/abtest/

Slide 77

Slide 77 text

Dearest Marketing Team: • The title of my talk is "Level Up Your Presentations" • Relevant hashtags are #ux and #velocityconf • The slides and resources are at dyn.com/abtest/ • I present from 9-10am so we can start sharing it around 10am

Slide 78

Slide 78 text

Practice beforehand

Slide 79

Slide 79 text

Practice beforehand • Lots of people here who give good feedback

Slide 80

Slide 80 text

Practice beforehand • Lots of people here who give good feedback • Videotape and watch it

Slide 81

Slide 81 text

Post-presentation

Slide 82

Slide 82 text

Post-presentation • If there's video: export slides as JPGs to overlay

Slide 83

Slide 83 text

Post-presentation • If there's video: export slides as JPGs to overlay

Slide 84

Slide 84 text

Post-presentation • If there's video: export slides as JPGs to overlay; send to Marketing team

Slide 85

Slide 85 text

Post-presentation • If there's video: export slides as JPGs to overlay; send to Marketing team • Check Google Analytics stats for your page

Slide 86

Slide 86 text

Post-presentation • If there's video: export slides as JPGs to overlay; send to Marketing team • Check Google Analytics stats for your page • Check Twitter for links to your page, retweets of your automated tweets

Slide 87

Slide 87 text

Post-presentation • If there's video: export slides as JPGs to overlay; send to Marketing team • Check Google Analytics stats for your page • Check Twitter for links to your page, retweets of your automated tweets • Check bit.ly for clicks on your saved links

Slide 88

Slide 88 text

Post-presentation

Slide 89

Slide 89 text

Other Tips? [Marketing:Level Up Your Presentation]