How to avoid boring speakers?
Posted by Felix Enescu on October 23rd, 2006
Make them read this post on the Creating passionate users blog. 
“Better Beginnings: how to start a presentation, book, article…” is about presentations, about good presentations. It is not about graphics aids (for this read Presentation Zen) it is about content.
Five advices:
1) Do NOT start at the beginning!
2) Show, Don’t Tell
3) For the love of god, DO NOT start with history!
4) DO NOT start with prereqs
5) MYTH: you must establish credibility up front
I like very much the first advice:
Do NOT start at the beginning! […] Start where the action begins!
The second one is simply wonderful:
If you have to TELL your audience that they should care, you’re screwed. The motivation for why they should care should be an inherent part of the story, scenarios, examples, graphics, etc.
The article has many valuable “IDEAS FOR BEGINNINGS”.
This is a definite must read for every presenter.