PowerPoint Tricks – Banish Boring, Invite Fun
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I would like to be allowed to see more PowerPoint slides. OK, not really. In fact I could probably live the rest of my life without seeing another PowerPoint slide – I think that I’ve seen my limit!
Since I probably can’t avoid seeing more slides, then perhaps at least we can talk about what we can do to make them more fun…
It’s All About Fun The purpose of a PowerPoint slide is to enhance your speech. Malcolm Kushner is a speaker who has spent some time looking for ways to make this happen.
His thought is that we can all learn to get along with PowerPoint better if we can find ways to make our audience laugh.
Malcolm has done the heavy lifting for us by searching the web for different sites that we can use to create images that will cause our audience to chuckle and warm to your main message.
A Little Help From Albert Einstein
The nice thing about Albert Einstein is that everyone knows who he was. If only there was some way we could get him to help us out with our next presentation. Well good news, we can.
The web site hetemeel.com/einsteinform.php allows you to add any text that you want to to the chalkboard that Albert is writing on. The website has an example – I think that you can take it from here…!
Try A Bumper Sticker
Or a movie marquee, or a bar of soap. Taking a phrase that your audience will recognize and putting it in an image that they aren’t expecting is what will capture their imagination and help you to recapture their attention. An example of this is putting your message on the big display board that sits outside of Wrigley field.
Over at redkid.net/generator/sign.php they have 50 different images that you can overlay your company name / product name / main message. Check it out!
Final Thoughts
One of the fundamental rules of life is that we all like people who are like us. As a speaker we all have the challenge of finding ways to get our audience to warm up to us within the space of our speech. Getting our audience to laugh is a great way to make this happen.
Since we all use PowerPoint slides, finding a way to use our PowerPoint slides to make our audience laugh is a great way to connect with our audience. Customizing images with a dash of either our information or some part of our audience is a great (and easy) way to do this.
Spend a little time with the sites that we’ve talked about, and you’ll be able to intimately connect with your audience and make an lasting impact in their lives.
Dr. Jim Anderson
http://www.TheAccidentalCommunicator.com
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