Write a short paragraph explaining how to determine what information to put into a slide show presentation.
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Hey frnd
Plan your content first
Many experts warned about the dangers of planning your presentation in PowerPoint:
Ellen Finkelstein: Many people start the process of creating a presentation in PowerPoint, by entering text on the slides. Bad idea. The content should drive the design.
Bert Decker: The end result is totally PowerPoint driven, and we have information without influence and data without emotion.
So the most important recommendation is to plan your content first. This recommendation came up time and time again. In some cases, it was the only recommendation that contributors made:
Joey Asher: Here’s what I’d like to see going forward. Let’s start creating presentations by taking out a blank sheet of paper and writing down what we want to accomplish and what our audience cares about.
Geetesh Bajaj: Always start your presentation on paper — draw your ideas, link relationships between concepts, and create a storyboard.
George Torok: The first thing that presenters need to do is to ask these important questions before creating their presentation. What’s the purpose of your presentation? What do you want you audience to do because of your presentation? What message do you want to deliver that will help you achieve that purpose?
2. Use a plain background and remove any unecessary detail
Delete that powerpoint template. Powerpoint templates come from the mindset that PowerPoint slides are like documents and so should be branded. Templates add clutter and distract from the visual impact of a slide. Here are just 3 suggestions representative of those made:
M J Plebon: Let the majority of people start creating with a clean white canvas.
Jeromy Timmer: All of the standard Microsoft PowerPoint templates stink. Horribly. The ones that aren’t completely awful are so overused that they’ve become a cliche. Don’t use any of them.
Christophe Harrer: When it comes to slide design, you shouldn’t think of decoration, but of communication. Everything you add to your slides should have a positive impact on the message you are communicating. This is why I always use a very simple.
Hope this helps