Bizarrely, the BBC online magazine has an excellent article on “The problem with PowerPoint” with some tips for giving presentations that many people in the development business and in government would do well to heed. Here is the main point, as far as I am concerned:
… all too often the slides are verbal crutches for the speaker, not visual aids for the audience.
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Do you know http://www.presentationzen.com?
One of his suggestions is that people are there to see you. If your presentation is the PowerPoint slides, then the people don’t need you.