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One of the few bad parts of Lotusphere is that the slide templates, for want of a better word, "suck". They do not suck in so much as how they try to have content laid out. They suck in how they are used by the speakers because of forced constraints.
There is nothing worse than sitting in the back of a dark session room, and the speaker has tried to cram so many bullet points on to one slide, they cannot be seen. The speaker says "as you can see in this bullet point" or "in this line of code", yet the users do not have binoculars. So attendees bury their heads into the downloaded slides, and miss speaker added content.
So I am suggesting that IBM bring the templates into the 21st century so that attendees can see better. If not, add High Def Monitors in the larger session rooms so that the slides can be seen on them as well.
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1) Mika Heinonen3556 (16 Nov 2007)
True dat. I've experience too often that people are not aware of how small their text is presentation actually is. And in additional lots of text on one page, is completely ignored. If you want the text to mean and say something, make it big and standalone. Even better with some bass sound effects.
2) Wes Morgan54 (19 Nov 2007)
Oh, my, yes...I don't mind spreading text points across several slides, but it's really difficult to do any sort of serious diagram when the graphics eat up 15% of the available slide area...
3) Craig Wiseman21166 (19 Nov 2007)
Darn tech people! Don't you realize that form is more important than function?
8-)
8-)
4) Andrew Pollack2904 (23 Nov 2007)
Some perspective here people:
@Craig - You can insert a fully blank slide in the deck and make any diagram you want. I've done it for years.
@Mika - My own slides are created to serve two purposes. The remind me what I wanted to talk about at that point in the presentation, and they contain the data you may want to use later.
I don't read my slides, and I don't really mean for you to read them too closely either. I mean for you to take them with you. Many of my slides contain syntax examples or other such things that there is NO WAY you should remember from the presentation. Take home (or download from my site) the slide deck, and you're ready to get started.
I've had heated arguments with other speakers over this. One person (I won't name him, but I attended his xml presentation once and found it incomprehensible) swears by the method of putting nothing of value on the slides. He says if you put value on them, then people can download them and use them without paying you to come help. He wants people to call him because they have to. I want people to call me because they want to.
@Craig - You can insert a fully blank slide in the deck and make any diagram you want. I've done it for years.
@Mika - My own slides are created to serve two purposes. The remind me what I wanted to talk about at that point in the presentation, and they contain the data you may want to use later.
I don't read my slides, and I don't really mean for you to read them too closely either. I mean for you to take them with you. Many of my slides contain syntax examples or other such things that there is NO WAY you should remember from the presentation. Take home (or download from my site) the slide deck, and you're ready to get started.
I've had heated arguments with other speakers over this. One person (I won't name him, but I attended his xml presentation once and found it incomprehensible) swears by the method of putting nothing of value on the slides. He says if you put value on them, then people can download them and use them without paying you to come help. He wants people to call him because they have to. I want people to call me because they want to.
5) Devin Olson884 (04 Dec 2007)
Font Size, Font Size, Font Size! Please use larger font sizes.
6) Bruce Elgort7930 (04 Dec 2007)
Thanks Devin :-)
7) Christopher Boote4417 (20 Aug 2009)
@4 I want people to call me because they like me 8-)
No one likes me if I give a presentation with 8pt fonts and 32 bullet points per slide 8-(
No one likes me if I give a presentation with 8pt fonts and 32 bullet points per slide 8-(
8) Bruce Lill6677 (08 Oct 2009)
The font size should be half the age of the average person attending the session. So about 24pt or greater.
I add info to the notes area of the slides and have the pdf show that. So I just bullet the main info and expand upon it in the notes section if needed.
Like Andrew, I want you to listen to me and know the slides have all the info you need.
I add info to the notes area of the slides and have the pdf show that. So I just bullet the main info and expand upon it in the notes section if needed.
Like Andrew, I want you to listen to me and know the slides have all the info you need.
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