1. Lessons From Presentation Zen 4 April 2009 Presentation Camp Seattle 4 April 2009 Presentation Camp Seattle Craft Your Story Visually

2. First. Step away from the computer. photo by riotjane - 2008

3. Second. Who is your audience? photo by Carbon NYC - 2008

4. Third. What role are you playing? photo by Khalid Almasoyd - 2008

5. What is your story?

7. Ideas. Concepts. Not Slides.

8. Architecture: Story Board Text Design 2 Good Graph Design 3 Text Storyboard Images Design Principle 1 Cluttered Image Bad Graph Text Story Frames Title & Intro Design 4

9. Design Tips: Four Visual Principles

10. 1. Simplify

12. 80%

13. Avoid animation & sound

14. 2. Signal-to-Noise

18. 3. “White” Space

20. 4. Rule of Thirds

22. Before & After

23. Top Global Web Properties

24. Web PropertiesVisitors Microsoft508,000 Google494,000 Yahoo476,000 Wikipedia164,000 New York Times68,000 Top Global Web Properties

25. 2009 Flood Initial estimated damage at $125 million Three deaths 27 commercial shellfish areas closed 8,000 residents in seven water systems told by officials to boil their water

27. 2009 Flood Estimate $125 million Three deaths 27 shellfish areas closed 8000 residents in 7 water systems must boil water

28. 2009 Flood Estimate $125 million Three deaths 27 shellfish areas closed 8000 residents in 7 water systems must boil water

29. In A Word: Simplify

30. Resources PresentationZen (Garr Reynolds, Blog) PresentationZen PresentationZen (book, Amazon)Amazon The Rule of Thirds Life After Death With Powerpoint (youtube)youtube

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