How to make interesting powerpoint presentation

What Makes a Good Presentation?

• Tell a story.
• Contain lots of powerful visuals.
• Use few words.
• Toss most of the bullet points.

You may have heard about Guy Kawasaki's 10-20-30 rule: "A PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points." Yet, many hit presentations don't even come close to making that rule. So forget the hard and fast rules. It's about your presence, your topic and your audience.

Books on Creating Effective Presentations with or without PowerPoint

If you need some guidance, these three books will give you everything you need. Check out one, two or all of them. It's up to you:

• Beyond Bullet Points by Cliff Atkinson
• PresentationZen by Garr Reynolds
• slide:ology by Nancy Duarte

Samples of Great Presentations

TED has a wealth of inspiring presentations. Click any presentation and you'll learn from it especially Hans Rosling's presentation. By the way, Bill Gates released the mosquitoes at a TED talk. Now here's a long list of top notch presentations. Before you check them out, think about what draws you to them and capture that on paper. That's what you need to create a powerful PowerPoint presentation.

1. The Brand Gap based on the best-selling book.
2. Guy Kawasaki Truemors presentation: Notice it's 55 slides, not 10 slides.
3. History of the Button: Pick any button…
4. How to Make Big Things Happen with Small Teams by Jason Fried of 37Signals.
5. Inbox Zero by Merlin Mann
6. Shift Happens: You may have seen this one -- it's very good and worth repeating. It caught so many people's attention that information visualizing firm Xplane helped tweak it. The story behind the presentation and its wikispaces page.
7. Sky McCloud Presentation: Cartoonist Scott McCloud's daughter tells about their trip across the country in a creative way.
8. Sustainable Food Lab: An organization bringing sustainability to food systems.
9. Thirst: Addresses the water crisis.
10. Translation as Vocation: About the career of a translator.
11. Zimbabwe in Crisis: Sad, yet powerful in getting the message across.

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