Have you ever given a PowerPoint presentation that fell flat on its face and left half your audience dozing? I know I have. Thankfully, help is on the way in the El Word column from the latest issue of ReadyMade. Ellen Lupton shares some sound advice for improving slideshow presentations that should keep your audience on the tip of their seats (or at least awake!).

There’s lots of simple, practical tips like if you’re using bullet points make sure not to put more than three bullets per slide, keep any branding and company logos subtle and unobtrusive, and go easy on the sounds and special effects.

Ellen also provides some alternative strategies and tools for presenting information beyond the traditional PowerPoint or Keynote presentation software, such as using a desktop publishing program like InDesign or Quark, or an online service like Flickr, or maybe even resorting to that old-school method of printing out your information on paper.

Whatever your presentation tool of choice, there’s some sound advice in Feature Presentation. Click on the image below for a free preview.

Look Inside >> October/November 2008