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Scientific presentations
- can they ever be artistic?

May 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Apple Keynote, Communication, PowerPoint, Presentation skills

I saw a question from someone who has the same anxiety as me – how to design great scientific slides that have enough content to keep them interested but not overwhelmed.

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Maybe it IS possible to embed fonts in PowerPoint

April 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Fonts, PowerPoint

I came across a useful article on embedding fonts in PowerPoint (PC only, sadly not Mac yet). The author seems to imply it does work but I remain skeptical.

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Embedding fonts in PowerPoint

April 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Fonts, PowerPoint

Does this ever work? On the Mac there’s no problem, because the Mac version of PowerPoint doesn’t even pretend to let you embed your fonts in the file. So if you are using a Mac presentation you just know that you need to stick to common fonts for the presentation.

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Avoid mixing slide design styles in a presentation

March 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Bad design

Today at a conference I was chairing I noticed quite a few speakers used slide decks that were obviously created by dropping slides from multiple decks into one set. So the first slide had a white background and Arial font. The next had a colored background with Times New Roman then occasionally slides would appear [...]

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Presentation trap

March 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Communication, Presentation skills, Presentation style

Lately I have become somewhat obsessed with PowerPoint and Apple Keynote. I read Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds (fabulous book, wish I’d written it – see his great blog at Presentation Zen) and this woke me up to the fact that most slides and most presentations suck. My own presentations are generally grim, too, with [...]

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