This document contains notes and ideas from various presentations on making effective presentations. It discusses focusing on the message over slides, using simplicity and unexpected elements. It emphasizes using stories, emotion, and building rapport with the audience. Tips include rehearsing, having passion, empathy and pacing your speech. The overall message is to engage the audience and make your presentation memorable through good design and different techniques.
18. Very great talk from @nrichand in #XKE. What an amazing speaker! You don’tlikeit, yousleepYou likeit, youtwitWicket presentation by @edijoux is awesome. But I still prefer flex ! #XKE
23. “The audience will either read your slides or listen to you. They will not do both. So, ask yourself this : is it more important that they listen, or more effective if they read?” Nancy Duarte
33. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” Leonardo da Vinci“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple… That's creativity.”Charles Mingus