Exactly. The slides should provide an outline for your actual verbal presentation. The detail comes in the telling.
Definitely a good start! ----- Original Message ----- From: "-ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Open Source Presentation so far... feedback needed > > I concur. People aren't going to read all that text. You're lucky if > they look at the slide for more than 10 seconds. > > Have you gone through all the slides and picked out the most important > ones to concentrate on? An hour for 28 slides is not a lot of time...2 > min/slide. Especially if they ask questions, which you should encourage. > You'll know they're interested if they ask questions. > > Also as Dustin said, the slides should be short, bulleted and to the > point. This is good for the live presentations, but not quite as useful > without the author's commentary. For presentations that are posted > online, it'd be nice if they had some commentary. > > ray > > > On Wed, 25 May 2005, Dustin Puryear wrote: > >> You may want to use a word other than "anomalous". Good word in general >> though. :) >> >> I would break up large paragraphs into bulleted pages since this is a >> presentation (e.g., page 12, Benefits of OSS). >> >> Otherwise, this is an excellent start. Good job. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan McCain" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 7:06 PM >> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Open Source Presentation so far... feedback >> needed >> >> >> Here ya go.. >> >> http://www.jordanmayer.net/oss/OpenSource_NG.ppt >> >> Thanks, Ryan >> >> -------------------------------------- >> >> Ryan McCain >> Northrop Grumman Corporation >> Linux System Administrator 3 >> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Phone: 225.219.0556 >> Fax: 225.219.0540 >> >> Registered Linux User #364609 >>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/21/05 6:24 PM >>> >> Can you save that as a PowerPoint too? I only have Office. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan McCain" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 5:55 PM >> Subject: [brlug-general] Open Source Presentation so far... feedback >> needed >> >> >> It's still a mess, but looking for other peoples feedback. >> >> Remember, the audience is the Executive level. >> >> http://www.jordanmayer.net/oss/OpenSource_NG.sxi >> >> Thanks, Ryan >> >> >> -------------------------------------- >> >> Ryan McCain >> Northrop Grumman Corporation >> Linux System Administrator 3 >> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Phone: 225.219.0556 >> Fax: 225.219.0540 >> >> Registered Linux User #364609 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org > Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University > IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
