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Dave Yewman, Dash Constulting - Overcoming Death by PowerPoint

Dave YewmanDave Yewman is a strategic communications expert with more than 15 years experience. A former newspaper reporter and columnist, Dave has conducted media and presentation training sessions for thousands of executives at numerous companies, including Adidas, Archos, aQuantive, Brooks Running, CA, CNet, Coinstar, Craigslist, Digg, DivXNetworks, eHarmony, Golfsmith, Ingram Micro, Isilon, K-Swiss, Microsoft, Musicmatch, M-Systems, Avenue A Razorfish, Reebok, Secure Computing and Vignette. Dave also co-founded ElevatorSpeech.com which uses videotape to help entire companies get to the point. Dave has spoken at numerous events on how to use clear, concise, compelling language as a strategic weapon when dealing with customers, partners, reporters, employees, sales prospects, shareholders and consumers. His book On Getting to The Point is currently available at Amazon.com.

It’s often called Death by PowerPoint. It’s also known as Show Up and Throw Up. You know who they are; slide slaves who can’t speak without a cascade of bullet-ridden, text-heavy, animated PowerPoint slides. It’s not pretty, but it is preventable. Dave Yewman is a presentation coach who cringes at the sight of CEOs and senior executives trying to deliver good presentations based on bad slides. This session will offer five easy tips for preventing “Death by PowerPoint” and more importantly it will help everyone get to the point and deliver a clear, concise, compelling message - with or without slides.

No more Death by PowerPoint for the attendees in this room.

“Volume of slides does not equal clarity of message.”
Chris Caopsella, Microsoft

Dark Side
You know too much
The curse of knowledge

Death By PowerPoint Hall of Shame

  • A whole screen full of text
  • Bill Gates with so many images you can’t even focus on one
  • Lottery History - Oregon State Lottery
  • Sort of a flow chart from Japan

    • Right Way
    Comedy central skit

    Gold Star Walk of Fame

    Guy has a 10, 20, 30 rule

    NASA
    Foam Debris on the Columbia
    Boeing Slides
    Dave says maybe he can translate one of them
    Slide should have just been 640X instead of babbling text

    Diminimus don’t ever use it or any jargon like it!
    The Five Tips

    1. Words First
    2. Tell Stories - Out Loud
    3. Hide the Junk
    4. Use Presenter Mode
    5. B Controlling

    late,
    gary pool

    This is a post from Gary Pool’s Search Engine Optimizician&trade blog.

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