Comments on: February 16: How to NOT Give a Boring Presentation

By: Rachel Peters

Rachel Peters — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:02:33 +0000

Looks good Kelly! I’m looking forward to your presentation.

By: Rachel Peters

Rachel Peters — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:01:52 +0000

Thanks for asking! The cost for nonmembers is $10. I added it to the entry. Hope to see you there!

By: Kelly Vandever

Kelly Vandever — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:43:41 +0000

Thank you for the comments Wendy & Rachel!
Other comments I received from Twitter/LinkedIn are…
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Martirossian

@KellyVandever boring presentations start and end flat, they have no beginning, middle and end, and no highs and lows. Cheers.
Mitch_Willis

@KellyVandever PowerPoint presentations! As soon as I see powerpoint, my eyes start to bleed from boredom.
seanb_us

@KellyVandever Lack of audience participation makes a presentation boring. Reading to me off the overhead, too.

RE: Kelly Speaking to STC, February 16: How to…
From: Cindy Lupatkin – Campbell
Date: January 25, 2010
To: Kelly Vandever

Hey Kelly!

Here are my items:
1) reading from the powerpoint�
2) monotone speaking (beuler…beuler…)
3) stating the obvious (tell me something I don’t know)
4) standing in front of a podium. what are you , the president? having to stand there and read makes me think you are not the expert you claim to be.

Hope this helps!

Cindy
What’s your opinion??

By: Astrid

Astrid — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:37:08 +0000

What is the cost for non-members to attend this event?

By: Rachel Peters

Rachel Peters — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:01:25 +0000

I don't mind a ppt accompanying the presentation, as long as it's just a complement to the content. I don't like slide after slide of bullet points. I can read! I do like seeing pictures or quotes or other thought-provoking items on the screen. I think that can add to what the speaker is saying.

Looking forward to your presentation!

By: Wendy Kinney

Wendy Kinney — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:42:41 +0000

Okay Kelly, you tweeted
“Tell me what makes a presentation boring.”
Here you go!
I hear at least two presentations a day–often more. �I can’t tell you when I last time I saw an interesting PowerPoint presentation. �Any presentation without .ppt is forty times more interesting than any presentation with it.
Good handouts make a difference. �PowerPoint slides are not good handouts. The more pages of .ppt handout, the worse the presentation will be.
I abhor presenters who apologize. For anything. Do your best. If this isn’t your best, don’t devalue me by telling me you didn’t care enough to do your best. Let me think this is your best–I’ll think better of you!
Graphs, charts, no. Unless you’re going to give me as much time to understand it as it took you, originally, I won’t get it. �You’ll be on to the next slide and I’ll still wonder what the graph was supposed to show.
Eager to see what other people’s hot buttons are – �W!
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