Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:47:44 -0500 From: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.net> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress'' Message-ID: <d356c5630904220847q7ff69774n27919941e0dfa3ca@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1240414705.73519.12.camel@pukruppa.net> References: <20090422072312.GA92118@thought.org> <1240414705.73519.12.camel@pukruppa.net>
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.net>wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 22.04.2009, 00:23 -0700 schrieb Gary Kline: > > In any case, there are > > two questions for this list. > > The first, obviously, is subjective and is: > > would having my stuff in slideshow fmt gain me a wider readership? > Yes. Any sort of attractive presentation will draw more attention to > your content than ordinary text without any pictures or animations. > > > The > > second is: anybody out there willing to clue me in on this stuff? > I have always made very good experiences with technical questions of all > kind on this list. Regarding your contents or lay-out and design there > probably are better forums. > > Greetings, > > Uli. > > gary > > > It is very difficult to convey concepts or ideas with any complexity with slides alone. Usually, slides should accompany and complement a presentation. If the document must stand alone (no speech, etc), and the content is of any complexity, I would advise not using slides. For anyone using slides, I recommend the following book by Garr Reynolds: "Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery" Best regards, Andrew
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