Present your best

I attended a service once where the preacher had a PowerPoint presentation that was... a novel!? Putting every word of your sermon or lecture on PowerPoint isn't a great idea. The audience was practically reading his sermon.

Well i thought I'd hang up a few ideas that would make a PowerPoint (or Keynote) be presentable as well as informative and beneficial to the speaker and listeners.

1. Don't abuse your visuals - Usually your visuals are posters, charts, or even a PowerPoint presentation. Whatever your visuals may be, keep them simple and don't put too many words on them. The audience isn't there to read your slides, they are there to listen to you present.
2. Don't give PowerPoint center stage. This is the biggest mistake I see speakers make. They forget that PowerPoint is a tool designed to augment their presentation not be their presentation
3. Make your presentation readable.
4. Remember, less is more. Fancy slide transitions and fly-ins get old quickly. I strongly recommend that you keep things simple. A basic dissolve from one slide to another is sufficient. And finally, cut down the number of slides. You don't need a transcript of your speech with every point and sub-point! People are only going to remember the major points any way.

Simple isn't it?