Great tips, I also want to give a shout-out for trying the LaTeX beamer [1] package, lets you focus on content, and not layout, as well as structure your thoughts into a hierarchy using sections, subsections, etc. and it will automatically add progress and tracking to each slide, letting the audience see the "big picture" at a glance.
- Jacob [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_%28LaTeX%29 On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Dave Aitel <[email protected]> wrote: > When hacking professionally, you model everything very carefully, run > your tools and methodology against the systems, and then revisit > multiple times as you optimize against your known defensive threats. > That's just how professionals work. And I find it funny that INFILTRATE > is the first conference in our sphere that requires a pre-conference > WebEx dry run. I'm going to bullet-list a few things we see a lot just > so everyone knows: > > 1. Use Prezi. You don't HAVE to because I know it makes you feel like a > hippie, but it also makes for better presentations. This is for three > reasons: > a. Zoom. Zoom. MORE ZOOM. Zoom is the most key feature in a > presentation but so few people use it because in every other > presentation software it is super impossible to do. > b. Hierarchical presentations. PPT and Keynote take your nice > pyramid-like thoughts which are connected naturally and then flatten > them into a line of slides. You get a MUCH better presentation by being > able to subtly show the true shape of your thoughts. > c. It is much easier and faster to create a Prezi than a good PPT. > This means more time thinking about what you are trying to represent and > less time fixing how big the fonts are in slide 50. > > That doesn't mean there aren't downsides to Prezi. But overall it is a > massive step forwards. > > 2. Contrast in your text. No more yellow on white please. People's eyes > are not good and what you see on a washed out projection is not as good > as what you see on your screen. > > 3. Gliffy.com . That way your diagrams look great and you have MORE of > them. More diagrams done more easily usually makes for a much better > presentation. > > 4. Be more offensive. Don't worry as much about SELLING your idea but > think more about showing the metrics behind your success. We usually ask > at the end for more NUMBERS. How does your technique compare to other > things that generate numbers? Feel free to call people out. You can name > names in your research. You can say "I dont' think this works the way > they say it does." > > 5. Think bigger picture. So many people talk about their technique but > don't talk about what that level of success means for the larger world. > We want to see "if the level of effort for X is so small, what does that > mean for people trying Y?" What are the defenders going to do next to > stop you? Is this something really easy for them, or really hard? > > 6. People do movies instead of demos, but they make the font in the > movie terminals the default, instead of GIANT SO BIG FONT THAT WE CAN > SEE IT. Please when you make a demo movie for a presentation, make the > fonts 20% larger than you think they need to be for a blind person to > read them from the back row. > > 7. More screenshots, with big fonts in them. People love to see > screenshots because they illustrate your bullet-list points very clearly > sometimes (i.e. what are the arguments to that thing you wrote again?). > > -dave > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dailydave mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave > >
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