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August 22, 2011

A Handy Trick – PowerPoint Line Breaks

Skilled typographers go nuts when they see poor line breaks in text. Do you know when to add a manual line break? It will make your slides look more […]

August 20, 2011

Say It With Charts (Gene Zelazny) Book Review

The ideas in Say It With Charts are simple. So simple, in fact, you’ll actually end up using them. And they will make a huge impact on how […]

August 18, 2011

5 Tips for Handling Questions During a Presentation

Questions are a normal part of any presentation, whether you’re leading a workshop, speaking at an industry conference or presenting your marketing plan to an executive. I’ve scoured the […]

August 17, 2011

Slopegraphs Beat the Pants Off Other Charts

For business presentations, we usually produce graphs that are easiest in Excel. But there is one graph that cannot be produced easily in Excel, but is […]

August 15, 2011

Don’t Build Slides Until they Pass the “Coffee Test”

Want to build a presentation that will grab attention and hold it until the end? Want to make sure it goes viral? Then don’t build slides […]

August 12, 2011

WordPress Changed My Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn Sharing Buttons

But I found a way to fix it. To share this with you, and play around with my concept of PowerPoint’s scrolling view, here’s the steps […]

August 11, 2011

Amazing Example of a Boardroom Presentation Using PowerPoint

UPDATE: There are still seats available in my June 6 Speaking PowerPoint seminar in Seattle. Check out the agenda if you want to learn how to […]

August 9, 2011

Steve Jobs Unveils iCloud Reading (Gasp!) Text Slides

Presentation guru Steve Jobs would never unveil iCloud reading the text right off his slides. Would he? Fast forward to (3:17-3:55) and (6:10-6:47) and see for yourself. Isn’t […]

August 8, 2011

Survey Says! Top 10 Tips for Better Webinars

Conducting a webinar looks easy. But there are a lot of potholes you can fall into if you don’t prepare properly. Here the top 10 problems […]