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Don’t give out your slides when speaking

Mitch Joel makes a great case against something that has irked me for a long time – handing out nothing but the slides from your presentation….

“Can I have your slides?” is probably the most common question a presenter gets asked. Here’s why you should never give them out…

If there is one rule of presenting that I constantly see broken, it’s the one where a presenter gives out their slides whenever they are asked. There are two very valid reasons why this is a bad idea: