THE FOUR MOST IMPORTANT POWERPOINT RULES FOR SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATIONS

THE FOUR MOST
IMPORTANT
POWERPOINT
RULES
FOR SUCCESSFUL
PRESENTATIONS
THE FOUR MOST
IMPORTANT
POWERPOINT
RULES
FOR SUCCESSFUL
PRESENTATIONS
@ned_potter
YOU’RE A BIT
COULD BE BETTER
STRESSED OUT
because you know
your presentations
BUT YOU DON’T KNOW
WHERE TO START?
AN ATTRACTIVE
PRESENTATION IS
JUST A BYPRODUCT
OF AN EFFECTIVE
PRESENTATION.
RELAX.
AN ATTRACTIVE
PRESENTATION IS
JUST A BYPRODUCT
OF AN EFFECTIVE
PRESENTATION.

RELAX.
and 4 things really matter for
making an effective presentation
RULE 1
MORE
IMAGES
LESS
TEXT
WORD HEAVY SLIDES can be difficult to
read from the back of the room, and people can only
listen and read at the same time for a very short
period.
If they end up having to choose
between listening to you talk or
reading your slides, you become
OUT OF SYNC with your audience.
IS YOUR PRESENTATION WORKING WITH YOU
OR AGAINST YOU?
IMAGES ARE NICE TO LOOK AT,
ENGAGING, ENRICHING, AND
CAN SUPPORT YOUR STORY.

IMAGES ARE NICE TO LOOK AT,
ENGAGING, ENRICHING, AND
CAN SUPPORT YOUR STORY.

People can look at images and listen to
you speak at the same time, no problem.
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IMAGES
HELP PEOPLE LEARN

BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IMAGES
HELP PEOPLE LEARN
Learning is improved when narration occurs
simultaneously with relevant images.
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IMAGES
HELP PEOPLE LEARN
Click these
sites for
amazing images
you can use
legally with
Attribution
COMPFIGHT
FREEIMAGES
MORGUEFILE
PHOTFUNIA
MULTICOLR
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IMAGES
HELP PEOPLE LEARN
COMPFIGHT
FREEIMAGES
MORGUEFILE
PHOTFUNIA
MULTICOLR





Compfight searches Flickr

better than Flickr searches
itself, for millions of
images.

TIP: Make sure you choose the
‘Creative Commons’ option after
your first search, & ignore the
sponsored links above the dotted
line.
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IMAGES
HELP PEOPLE LEARN
COMPFIGHT
FREEIMAGES
MORGUEFILE
PHOTFUNIA
MULTICOLR





Freeimages is great for stock
photography – there are
loads of great images for
enhancing slides.


TIP: Sign up for the free account to
get full-sized versions of the images
you find.

BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IMAGES
HELP PEOPLE LEARN
COMPFIGHT
FREEIMAGES
MORGUEFILE
PHOTFUNIA
MULTICOLR





Morguefile also has stock
photography – there are
fewer images but they’re
free for commercial use.

TIP: There are images where no
attribution is required – these are
useful for situations where there’s
no room to credit the author, e.g.
posters, business cards, and tweets

BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IMAGES
HELP PEOPLE LEARN
COMPFIGHT
FREEIMAGES
MORGUEFILE
PHOTFUNIA
MULTICOLR





Photofunia allows you to put
your own images INTO
existing pictures.

TIP: To create your own text to add
to a billboard or painting in
Photofunia, create a textbox in
PowerPoint, write your text, right-
click and Save As Picture. You’ll
then have an image of your text to
upload into Photofunia.

BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IMAGES
HELP PEOPLE LEARN
COMPFIGHT
FREEIMAGES
MORGUEFILE
PHOTFUNIA
MULTICOLR
The Multicolr Search Engine
is just about the most fun
you can have finding
images: it searches by
colours not keywords.

TIP: Create an image-only
presentation that stays completely on
brand by picking your organisation’s
corparate colours in Multicolr…





MAKE THE MOST
OF YOUR IMAGES
AND WRITE ON THEM IN A
MINIMUM FONT SIZE
OF 24…
AND WRITE ON THEM IN A
(THIS IS 24. If you need it
smaller than this, you’re using

too much text)
MINIMUM FONT SIZE
OF 24…
RULE 2
MAKE
ONE
POINT
PER SLIDE
THIS GOES BACK TO THE
IDEA OF BEING IN SYNC
WITH YOUR AUDIENCE.

Focus on one thing at a time. Allow your
audience to digest it, then move with
them onto the next theme.