Trainers' Lounge

I've seen simple yet powerful presentations in my life. In fact, 2 of the best presentations I've watched over the internet are (1) Al Gore's keynote in his documentary "the Inconvenient Truth" and (2) Steve Jobs' presentation during World Wide Developer's Conferences.

Although these speakers use an Apple-branded software, "Keynote" - unlike most of us who use Microsoft "Powerpoint" - they exemplify a good but effective and powerful technology assisted speeches. Remember, good presentations do not depend on the tool or program you're using but on the impact it could leave to its audience.

Gore's and Jobs' presentations have a lot in common. Aside from what I've mentioned earlier that they both use "Keynote," the style of their presentations are quite similar.

1. They use dark-colored backgrounds, which add emphasis on the texts and pictures embedded on each slides. Backgrounds should not be literally so dark. Adding a gradient effect - like what you see in Job's presentation - does the trick in highlighting important parts of your presentation.

2. None of them use Times New Roman as font-type. The latter font may be pleasing in the eyes for short-distance reading, however it is quite difficult to read if your put it in a presentation for a larger audience.

3. They do not use comic-like custom animations. Their favorites - classy and pleasing animations. It is not recommended put a plethora of animations in your presentation. Simple zooms (for intros), wiggles (for emphasis) and rumbles (for connoting negativity) are some of the recommended animations in your presentations.

I've seen more similarities and good things about them but I believe some of the sites below tell more than I can. Their ginormous pile of presentation database and tips are quite a handful.

1. See Sample Presentations in Duarte Design.
2. Presentation Tips from Lifehacker.com
3. Get some presentation tips from Garr Reynolds.
4. Newsweek on Delivering A Presentation like Steve Jobs.

So compassionate, so faithful, so loving You are Our Father.

We ask You to increase our faith and our love for You that we may use blogging as an instrument to fulfill Your purposes. May we become bloggers of truth and promoters of peace.

Help us to be steadfast in our Christian commitment that visitors may find in our blogs a source of encouragement and inspiration. Give us strength to proclaim Your word, that we may play our part in breaking down the walls of hostility in the world and use our blogs to strengthen the bonds of friendship, solidarity and love.

Make our hearts meek and humble that we may treat our readers as friends, not as unique hits, that we may strive to change ourselves for the better more often than we pimp our site templates, that we may find more time to ease the pain of someone in our own home than to reply to comments left by strangers, that we may interact with our next door neighbors as often as we chat with our blogrolled friends, that we may be more concerned about helping the less privileged than about the number of subscribers to our RSS feeds.

Deliver us, Father, from spams and viruses, from pride and selfishness, and from the temptation to replicate images without permission and copy ideas without crediting the original authors.

May we always be united as a network of bloggers and friends working together in Your name. May our blogs lead us closer to You.

We ask all these through Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

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by Fr. Stephen, MSC; http://www.stephencuyos.com/?p=280#comment-56716

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