Share In The Conversation May 22, 2010 Making the Point with PowerPoint Brett P. Cooper

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Share In The Conversation May 22, 2010 Why do you present?

Share In The Conversation May 22, 2010 What has worked for you?

Share In The Conversation May 22, 2010 What hasn’t worked for you?

Share In The Conversation May 22, 2010 What are your tips and tricks?

Best practices from the road Ask questions What are you trying to answer by giving your presentation? – Sell something – an idea, a product, a service – Get approval to do something

Best practices from the road Before you present check out the location where you are presenting, for: – A projector and screen? – Microphone? Don’t scream – it hurts more than your voice and the audience will not hear you! – Speakers? – Do you need cables to connect up? – Is everything working? Show up early and talk to your audience – Ask them why they are here and use the stories

More best practices from the road Start with your last slide first – You may never get to your last slide! Practice, practice, practice – Video tape yourself and watch it to improve Educate yourself on your audience – Ask yourself “What does my audience want to hear?” Use a remote control (<$50 at any office store) Never go below 18 point font – You want your points to be legible Join Toastmasters – and go to the meetings Put your PPT(x) on a USB memory stick

Use the tools of the trade Use animations Use video to make your point – Brings the story home Customer References Key Partners – Don’t forget speakers Use the latest PowerPoint tools Use open source-royalty free graphics and video Pay for someone to review your work And now, some examples….

IBM XIV Solutions – VMware - Virtualization 11 Automatic rebalancing of load within the infrastructure An example of an animation

Share In The Conversation May 22, 2010 Get your audience involved!

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Share In The Conversation May 22, 2010 What do you think of the following slide?

Fonts are too small and too muchinformation Fonts are too small And too much information How would you do to change this slide?

What are the top five issues that you are struggling with? Source:TheInfoPro Storage Study (12/14/09), n=186. Managing Complexity Backup Administration & Management Managing Costs Capacity Forecasting & Storage Reporting Managing Storage Growth #1#1 0%20%40%60% #2#2 #3#3 #4#4 #5#5 52% 22% 11% 3% 2%

Next steps Take a look at a presentation you just gave and try out what you have learned today – What needs to change? – What would make it better? Don’t give up – update your presentations with the feedback that you have received – Presentations are living and breathing – they evolve over time Have fun!

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