I need help making my powerpoint presentation more interesting. I could give more detail but I don't want my audience to tune-out during the presentation due to lack of interest in the details. How do you decide when you have too many details?
Posted by wood0065 at October 4, 2004 10:00 AMI think it's probably good that you don't have much detail. Powerpoint presentations should not be very detailed, and they cannot stand on their own. They're just loose guidelines that you can use to base your presentation on, to keep people focused and refresh their memory of what exactly you're talking about. But you should have very little detail. I'd say two minutes per slide is a good idea. A lot of people change slides every 10-30 seconds, and that is a bad thing.
So don't worry about not being detailed enough. Your Powerpoint should help support your speech, but you should be able to do your speech without it as well.
Posted by: Luca at October 4, 2004 04:20 PM