This slideshow, I found at Clinical Cases and Images, is one of the best ones I’ve ever seen. It focuses on how not to give a presentation:

I’m a medical student so I know exactly what it is like to sit and watch plenty of bad and long presentations while I still believe even the worst and most boring subjects could be visualized properly on a well-structured slideshow.

I’ve given dozens of slideshows about web 2.0 and medicine and they changed a lot after my US trip this February. I realized the aim is not to transmit all the information you have, but to persuade your audience to search for your project or your work after your presentation. You can clearly see the difference if you take a look at my old and the new slideshows.

Now I

• use images (many many images)
• talk instead of inserting all the texts I have on the slides
• make comparisons (e.g. between the old and new form of web)
• present only a slice of the whole story (I used to talk about all the axes of medicine 2.0)
• try to avoid  “overhyping” the importance of web 2.0
• tell more stories (like this one about Second Life)

What are your tips?

Let’s finish with a funny video about the same topic:

Further reading:

• How not to give a presentation: Richard Smith, editor; BMJ