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Re: Reduce font size to increase readability

joelheffner — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:48:18 -0000

I agree with the comments about Tom Peters having terrible slides. The point simply being that his slides have large/bold type...and work for him. My only point really is that the audience shouldn't be swayed that much by the type. It's what the presenter says that should really sway 'em. :)

Re: Twitter Lists Are Live! [Updated]

joelheffner — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:13:52 -0000

Lists appeared (in one of my Twitter accounts) last night. An interesting way to organize things.

Re: Reduce font size to increase readability

joelheffner — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:40:51 -0000

It seems to me that too much is made of design when talking about public speaking. Tom Peters is a good example. You don't have to have extraordinary design to be effective as a speaker. The words on a slide, in my silly opinion, should not draw attention away from the content. In fact, I don't like words on a slide at all.

As far as the newspaper with plenty of white space, that situation is totally different. When you open a page of a newspaper (for those who still do), you are alone and essentially a captive audience. Your eye is moved to the words because of the white space. In a newspaper, you only have seconds to attract the readers *attention* before he or she turns the page. A speaker, on the other hand, should be keeping attention with what is said.

Slides are useful, but not THE message...at least in my silly opinion.

Re: Reduce font size to increase readability

joelheffner — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:01:59 -0000

I'm a little surprised that there is no discussion of the merits of the claim that smaller may be better. When I looked at the example slides, I didn't find the smaller one to be more readable. On the contrary, to my eye, the larger one is, in fact, better. Clearly, Jan is an expert on slide making, however, we don't have to agree with him on everything. :)

Re: Will Digital Freeloaders Kill Publishing? Not So Fast - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

joelheffner — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:56:12 -0000

Although others may share your books, they can't share you! Many writers create books in order to promote their public speaking.