Quick takeaways from Presentation Summit 2011–Day 1, Part 2

In the afternoon of the first day of Presentation Summit 2011, I heard 2 excellent presentations and wanted to share them with you.

Carmen Taran: I Can’t Remember %#&$!

Carmen Taran was the afternoon keynote speaker. Those of you who are attending the Outstanding Presentations Workshop heard her present and she is always lively [...]

September 25th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Events | %COMMENTS('Leave a comment', 'One comment', '% comments', 'Comments are closed')%

How do you organize and structure your presentation content?

Olivia Mitchell recently presented in the Outstanding Presentations Workshop and recommended that everyone use a planner to organize content. (You can get her e-book with the planner here.)

In her presentation (and the planner), Olivia recommended answering the following questions that your audience will have about your topic:

Why?

What?

How?

For example, Olivia [...]

October 5th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Content | %COMMENTS('Leave a comment', 'One comment', '% comments', 'Comments are closed')%

What I’d like to see in PowerPoint design in 2009

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 [...]

January 6th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Design principles, Misc. PowerPoint Tips | %COMMENTS('Leave a comment', 'One comment', '% comments', 'Comments are closed')%