Lisa Braithwaite has written a post, “Hitting a brick wall with resistant clients,” in which she says, the following:
My fellow presentation experts Olivia Mitchell, Laura Bergells, Dave Paradi, Garr Reynolds, Cliff Atkinson, Jan Schultink, Jon Thomas, Jennifer Kammeyer, Ellen Finkelstein and others have been putting out bucketloads of excellent content about how to [...]
I’ve written a short guest blog post for Oliver Adria’s Rethink Presentations blog. Oliver has such a great sense of design that it’s a pleasure just to look at his blog. (The reading is good, too!)
As I point out, banishing Death by PowerPoint is pretty easy and I discuss just two simple principles. [...]
Story from Karen Carleton, MEd, MS
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/karencarleton
I was with a consulting company and some hunting outfitters were giving presentations to natural resources board to back up their claims disputing government research that animal populations were dwindling, to maintain their businesses and livelihood (or delay closure of their businesses).
One guy (a crazed rogue [...]
I had to share this comment from a discussion going on in the LinkedIn Learning, Education and Training Professionals Group group. There have been many great comments, but I got permission from Dr. William Brantley to share this one:
“The worst PowerPoint presentation I ever attended was given by a senior professor in the [...]
As you may know, I’ve launched a new web site, www.tellnshow.com, and with it a new project – the Campaign Against Death by PowerPoint. This post is especially to those of you in the presentation/speaking community, but anyone can participate. Since you help people improve their presenting and speaking and I know you’d like [...]
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) [...]
I created a short video explaining the Campaign Against Death by PowerPoint. Let me know what you think!
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.
My new Campaign Against Death by PowerPoint aims to improve presentations skills and reduce the suffering of audiences. Instead of waiting for presenters to wake up and read the good advice of presentation experts, I want to harness the audience. The campaign lets the audience fight back—and help presenters.
To do your part, take [...]
This short slidecast by Karl Kapp shows great makeovers. You’ll learn a lot about how to avoid death by PowerPoint.
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.
Here’s the third installment of responses from the survey. I must say how impressed I’ve been with the eloquence of the responders. But I feel their pain. The white paper will include a campaign to turn rid the world of “Death by PowerPoint.” You’ll find out more about it soon!
“It was a cliche-induced, [...]
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