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I did a webinar for Brainshark.com and mybrainshark.com, a presentation-sharing website. It was called “3 reasons most presentations fail and 3 ways to fix them.” Over 500 people attended! The 1-hour webinar included makeovers of slides that attendees submitted. You can watch the presentation for free here. Let me know what you think by [...] I presented at the Outstanding Presentations Workshop on “Present Interactively–Your Audience Expects It!” What is the back channel? One of my topics was the back channel. The back channel is what your audience is saying behind your back, or perhaps at the back of the room. These days, they usually make their comments using [...] I was recently in touch with Mike Power, CEO of Neuxpower, the company that makes NXPowerLite. It’s software that compresses PowerPoint (and other) files. Just last week, I was working with an 11 MB file that wasn’t going through e-mail well, so I was glad to be reminded about this program that I’ve used [...] I met Connie Malamed at the last Presentation Summit where she presented on the topic, “Your Brain on Graphics–Get your visuals on target and on message.” I was impressed with her understanding of the field of visual communication and interested in her recommendation of “primitive features,” images that are simple in terms of color, size, orientation, movement, shape and depth. Therefore, she recommended reducing the realism of graphics, because the brain can process them more quickly and efficiently than more complex realistic images. Connie is the author of Visual Language for Designers. The paperback edition will be available in August. (You can find the hardcover edition new on Barnes & Noble, used on Amazon, and on Amazon’s Kindle.) She also has a respected blog, the elearning coach, with tips and advice on instructional design for elearning. I recently interviewed Connie about her work. EllenFinkelstein.com: Can you briefly explain the research you synthesized and how it relates to presenting? Connie Malamed: My goal in writing Visual Language For Designers was to uncover principles of visual design that are based on how people perceive and understand graphics, rather than relying on intuition or likes and dislikes. Using design principles based on cognitive psychology can help presenters create slides that accurately communicate their message. It can help audiences focus on what is important and it can help presenters better connect with their audience. EllenFinkelstein.com: What would you say most people do incorrectly when creating slides for their presentations? Ellen Finkelstein can train you or the presenters in your organization to create high-impact, engaging, professional presentations for training, sales, business, or education. For more information, please click here. Arte Ramgopal of Presentation-Process.com has interviewed me on the topic of presenting on the Web, in an article called, “Tips about Presentation on Web from Ellen Finkelstein.” Find out my recommendations for: A training presentation on YouTube The difference in preparing for a presentation on the web as compared to preparing for a [...] I want to share with you an excellent resource for presenters–Indezine.com. This site is run by a great friend of mine, Geetesh Bajaj, and includes a vast amount of information on PowerPoint, presentation tools, and more. It also offers a huge number of backgrounds, both for free and for purchase. Recently, I interviewed Geetesh [...] Jon Thomas, in his blog, Presentation Advisors, has written a post, “My Five Favorite Free Presentation Design Tools,” and I thought I’d share them with you. Compfight is a tool to search for images on Flikr. letting you easily find images that have Creative Commons or Commercial licenses. DaFont is a site for free [...] VisualBee was a Gold Sponsor of my Outstanding Presentations Workshop last fall. To bring you more information about this unique product, I interviewed Shai Schwartz, VP Creative & Marketing, of VisualBee. Question: Please describe briefly what VisualBee does. Answer: VisualBee is a Free PowerPoint 2007/10 plug-in that automatically designs presentations. VisualBee uses the existing [...] Google Docs is probably the most commonly-used free PowerPoint alternative. For sharing word-processing, spreadsheet, and presentation documents, Google Docs has become the standard and the features are good enough that you can even create the document online. Sharing is very easy, so when you need to collaborate with someone in another location, Google Docs [...] |
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