Maybe, if God answers my prayers, as we creep out of lockdown we will see less Zoom programs and more real, in the flesh presentations. I pray for this because it seems that every presentation I attend seems to suffer from several irritating mistakes.
As steam is coming from my ears just thinking about them, I’ll be brief:
- Don’t have more than about 12 words on the screen (and keep the font as large as possible).
- Never read out the words you have on the screen. If you want to make a point, pause long enough for the average reader to take it in, then start talking.
- Don’t cram the screen full of pictures so small you can’t see the detail and, if you must caption them, as few words as possible is the way to go!
- And as I whinged about recently… start at the scheduled time. Don’t wait for laggards!
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