Steve Graham

PowerPoint Presentations

What do you feel when you see the speaker setting up their laptop ready for a presentation? Is it eager anticipation of a really interesting and worthwhile speech on a topic you dearly need some help with, or are you like most people – wondering if it’s going to be just the same as all the others – a PowerPoint presentation which is just the speech in bullet-points and will be read to you? Read the rest of this entry »

My favourite definition of Murphy’s Law is “Anything that has a probability of happening greater than zero can and will happen. No exceptions.” This makes presenting using slides in PowerPoint or Keynote a dangerous thing. So many things can and probably will go wrong; after all you are entrusting your reputation to a piece of software.There are things you can control though so by applying a few simple ideas you can limit the number of things left to go wrong. Read the rest of this entry »