Media-Presentation Tips Info from Media Training Worldwide June 2, 2004
By TJ Walker
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Speaking/Presentation Tips
This week's focus: PowerPoint Presentations
1. Don't pack and ship your PowerPoint presentation. Always carry it with you.
2. Assume your PowerPoint projector will break.
3. Before using a PowerPoint presentation program, ask yourself why you need to use PowerPoint. If you are using PowerPoint because you did last year or everyone else did, please consult your mother on what to do if all of your colleagues jump off of a cliff.
4. If a PowerPoint slide has just a handful of words on it, you didn't need the slide in the first place.
5. Your PowerPoint slides should amplify your spoken words, not vice versa.
TV/Media Tips
6. The biggest problem most novices have when they go on TV is that they freeze all of their natural body movement except for their mouth, resulting in a scared, stiff, non-confident appearance.
7. When you are on TV, keep moving your head.
8. Do move your body a little.
9. Do move your hands--whoever told speakers not to use their hands was a fool.
10. Don't move your hands above your face, below your chest or wider than your shoulders.
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