PowerPoint Tips Blog

Sales reps can use PowerPoint to create a product catalog that they bring to potential customers. This catalog is easy to modify, even at the last minute. You can change photos, prices, descriptions, and so on.

From the point of view of the Sales Manager, PowerPoint product catalogs ensure that the catalog always looks professionally laid [...]

GCF Learn Free is a website that offers free tutorials, both in text and video format. People often ask me where they can learn PowerPoint from scratch, and this is a good place to start for the basics. Go to the Computer Training page, choose PowerPoint, and choose the version you want. They have tutorials [...]

MyBrainshark is a free slide-sharing site that allows you to record narration in one of 3 ways:

You can call a telephone number and speak your narration on the phone
You can use a microphone or webcam and record your narration
You can record Mp3 files (perhaps using Audacity) and upload them. (I explain how to use Audacity [...]

There’s a great discussion going on at The Official Toastmasters International Members Group on LinkedIn. Because you can’t access the group unless you join, I thought I’d summarize the opinions and see what you think. Here’s the question the sparked the discussion:

“In my home [Toastmaster] club, it has been generally accepted that the speaker does [...]

Thanks to Vikas Joshi for his write up of my training webinar on presenting interactively. His blog, The World of Interactivity, offers ideas for making Web sites, presentations, and applications more interactive. For example, he has ideas on how to make your site sticky, so that visitors become engaged.

My training webinar, “Present interactively—Your audience expects it!” was well received and you can now purchase the recording. In fact, the Training Manager of a state teacher’s union hired me to give this webinar, slightly customized, for employees. That too was well received.  Learn more about what I covered during the webinar and what participants [...]