Designer Nancy Duarte suggests your giving formal presentations (with good graphic design, good layout, etc.) should be reserved for times when you need to sell your ideas to the audience. If the audience has already "bought into" your idea, then selling (and a formal presentation) isn't necessary. Nancy has created a "presentation landscape" with "slideuments" (a term used by designer Garr Reynolds to describe documents made out of slides) vs. presentations (to describe formal presentations):
About presentations,
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