Using Slides Effectively in Communications
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Description
Have you ever wanted help preparing slide presentations for various audiences? Have you wondered how to display public health data or other information? If so, this online, interactive presentation is for you. The session will cover foundational presentation design principles from the book slide:ology by Nancy Duarte of Duarte Design, the company that developed Al Gore’s slides for An Inconvenient Truth. When you’re done with the session, you’ll look at your presentation from a new vantage point and will be able to “see” how to design your next presentation. This session will include critiques of real slide sets by Hot Topics attendees.
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Presenter
Principal of Duarte Design since 1990, Nancy Duarte passionately pursues the presentation development and design niche. One of the largest design firms in Silicon Valley and listed as a top woman-owned business in the area, Duarte Design is one of the few agencies in the world focused solely on presentations, whether they are delivered for projection, online or devices. Nancy’s twenty years of experience working with global companies and thought leaders has influenced the perception of some of the world’s most valuable brands and many of humanity’s common causes. In 2008 she released the book slide:ology—The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations where her experience was distilled into best practices for visual business communicators.
Learner Objectives
By the end of this session participants will be able to:
- Describe what it takes to bring enormous value to your presentation before ever touching a mouse.
- Summarize how to layer data for optimum projection.
- Deconstruct marvelous makeovers of attendee slides.
Target Audience
This session would be appropriate for the following audiences:
- Local and state public health practitioners and leaders
- Public health nursing leaders
- Local and state emergency management staff
- Others who want to hone their presentation skills
Slides and Related Resources
More information about slide:ology is available on the slide:ology blog.
More information about Duarte Design is available at http://www.duarte.com/.
More information on displaying public health data effectively is available in the fourth module of our free, online series, Basic Concepts in Data Analysis for Community Health Assessment.
Check out this tutorial on how to create a color scheme in PowerPoint. Tutorials on other PowerPoint features are also available.
More information on using color is available from CreativePro.
Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen, offers his top ten slide tips.
Session Archive
Play the recorded presentation (Flash Player version 9 or later required)
Play the Windows Media version [17 MB] (low quality)
Play the Quicktime version [11 MB]
