782 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford 8 Sep 2023 \ on: First draft of my "Why you shouldn't use Stacker News" TABConf slide deck meta
First off, I love this approach. I think you hit on some good and fair criticisms while still managing to make me curious. My one critique is I would kill the bullets and just say that stuff. Move them to notes and just have images on your slides. In my experience if you have to much text on your slides people end up just reading them vs. listening. I'm sure there is disagreement on this but years ago when I was working on my presentation skills I recall hearing this advice and I found it to be true. Slides should complement your talk. Not be the script for your talk. Just a few of my thoughts.
Yep. The very last thing you want to be doing in a presentation is reading from the slides. They should mostly just be overview or a way to remind yourself of what to talk about.
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I agree. Images. More images. An image of Stacker.news. An article. So they see what stacker.news is.
Write down your full text. Or zoom it and add an AI assistant to zoom and you get the transcribe of your whole text.
Then print it out and highlight ONE word that summarizes a whole section!
If you have 15 slides on each slide you should have 3 bullets. Each bullet is one word.
That way they cannot look at the slide and start reading.
The presentation contains 3 words per page. BIG. And an image that summarizes alm the 3 words (the theme of the 3 words. Next slide obe image to left and 3 new words etc. End sheet: 1 word. Start sheet one word. Stacker.news.
People will then listen. What is the story connecting these dot-words.
Dang. We have to listen to him we got only one picture and 3 words. Without his voice we can’t make any sense of those words:
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That's very helpful advice, thanks!
I'll try to figure out what I can move to notes
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