Do you give sales presentations? Perhaps you travel to prospective clients‘ offices and pitch a product or service. You may give webinars online to sell your wares. Another scenario: You invite people to your office and give them a presentation on what you offer.
Many products and services are sold via presentations. Your success [...]
You may have seen this article in the New York Times, “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint.” I’m not sure why they took so long to find this, since I first saw it and blogged about it last December, in my blog post, “I have seen the worst slide in the [...]
I just posted a video on YouTube called “A Quick Lesson in Effective Presentations.” In 2 minutes and 12 seconds, you’ll learn how you can revolutionize your slide design—and as a result, your presentations.
I’ve been teaching this method, in more detail, of course, for some time and have been so pleased to see [...]
I just found a great article by Sandi Mann in The Guardian, called, “Why do 60% of students find their lectures boring? (Dr. Sandi Mann is senior lecturer in occupational psychology at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK.) You can probably guess what’s coming.
“One of the main contributors to student boredom [...]
An excellent blog post by Suzanne Bates on using visuals and PowerPoint.
Too many words.
TOO MANY WORDS!
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I’ve see lists of bad slides, but this one takes the cake! I wouldn’t have said anything if this diagram had been called a document, but it was called a slide. I expect military documents to be complicated. But I don’t expect them to make slides of these documents.
Here it is:
The [...]
In the Presentation Advisors blog, there’s a post called, “Audience Members are from Venus, Presenters are from Mars,” which explains some of the frustrations that presentation consultants and experts experience. Basically, if you ask the general public (audiences) what is bad about most presentations, they know. But presenters (who are obviously sometimes audience members) [...]
As reported in the August 24, 2009 issue of Time magazine, new research indicates that talking on a cell phone while driving, even using hands-free technology, can be dangerous.
In July, a previously-buried 2003 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study was released and it identified the cell phone as a serious safety hazard.
Yes, [...]
Are you still creating PowerPoint slides with lots of bullets and text? This 4-min. video will revolutionize how you create presentations. You’ll see a makeover, step-by-step, that gets rid of a distracting background and turns a boring, bulleted slide into a clear, image-rich presentation.
Ellen Finkelstein can train you or the presenters in [...]
Olivia Mitchell, who writes the Speaking about Presenting blog, has organized a group blogging event on what we’d like to see in PowerPoint design in 2009. (And “design” rhymes with “2009!”)
Her inspiration was a blog post by Laura Bergells, called “PowerPoint, Propaganda, and You,” in which Laura talked about what she’d like to [...]
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