This is a review of a blog post by Craig Hadden, who blogs about presenting at Remote Possibilities. Craig is an instructional designer living in Sydney, Australia. Currently, the main tool he uses at work is Articulate Storyline. He loves “the way presenting is both a science and an art.” Craig has a Graduate Diploma in […]
9 tips to design presentations for webinars
I recently gave a presentation on this topic at the Presenters Network meeting in Manhattan and thought I’d share with you my points for designing presentations for webinars. By the word “design,” I mean both the visual design of the slides and the design of the content. Webinars have many advantages over live presentations: No […]
Add power to your message with better slide titles
When I work with clients, I sometimes find that their slide titles are boring and even meaningless. We work together to make the slide titles more powerful Use verbs when writing slide titles I recently worked with a client from a Fortune 100 company on a presentation. She needed to make several proposals about how to work […]
Speaking to inspire
Last Monday, I spoke to the Boca Raton Junior League. The topic was “From Death by PowerPoint to Life by PowerPoint: Speaking to Inspire.” I started with the story of how I was strongly criticized by a reader of a magazine for a slide I had used as a figure in an article I wrote […]
Keep your audience riveted by adding anticipation to storytelling
For months, I’ve been wanting to write a blog post about 2 new features in PowerPoint 2016 that are available if you have Office 365 (meaning that you pay a monthly subscription) and you belong to one of these free programs: Office Insider: For consumer Office 365 customers (individuals) First Release: for commercial Office 365 […]