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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 8644239, member: 105571&quot;]My LCC has two meetings a month and we usually have a presentation at the second meeting.&nbsp; We allocate about 15 minutes for the presentations since we have to also squeeze in club announcements, show-n-tells, auction, raffles and drawings.&nbsp; Also, more than 15 minutes strains peoples&#039; attention span and face it, most of us are advanced in years and it&#039;s just hard to stay awake when the lights are low and someone is droning on about a topic we really don&#039;t care about.</p><p><br /></p><p>A LCC presentation will always interest some members and bore others, so it&#039;s important to keep it light, fast and with good graphics.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best presentations I&#039;ve seen always had a &quot;hook&quot; that would interest even those with little or no interest in the topic. </p><p><br /></p><p>On that note, the easiest thing in the world is to pack too much information into a presentation and thus run long (been there-done that, to my chagrin).&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s hard to winnow down the information.&nbsp; What can sometimes work well is to present your high points and significant digressions orally and offer your presentation with much more information in a paper handout.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, just like here at CT, if there&#039;s no picture it doesn&#039;t exist.&nbsp; Lots of photos of coins, large and in focus.&nbsp; Your presentation will be up on a projection screen with generally lousy focus and definition and usually the screen area is too small.&nbsp; Thus the only people that will see the image well are those right in front, if then.&nbsp; Also, projection systems tend to provide less than perfect brightness.&nbsp; So you might want to artificially brighten your images.&nbsp; A significant portion of your audience is old with less-than-perfect eyesight.&nbsp; Make the images absolutely fill the screen area.&nbsp; Pick a font that&#039;s easy to read at a distance and make it large.&nbsp; It&#039;s easy to try to get artsy with your fonts but if it&#039;s hard to read, you&#039;ve lost a portion of your audience.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck and have fun with it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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