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May 17, 2011

The True ROI of Pfizer’s PowerPoint Experiment

And from the “If-it-aint-true-just-make-it-up” department, comes this lazy article from SourPointer Jim Edwards. His article claims Pfizer employees wasted 30% of their time on PowerPoint until […]
May 16, 2011

Should You Read Your Slides? The “Mayer Myth” Busted!

Some people are adamant you should never read your slides. Why? In part, because of research by Richard Mayer, author of Multi-Media Learning. But his research has been misinterpreted […]
May 10, 2011

Which Slides Can You Swap for a S.T.A.R. Moment?

Does your presentation include a S.T.A.R. Moment – Something They’ll Always Remember? This is a concept introduced by Nancy Duarte in her book Resonate. I was […]
May 9, 2011

Does Chartjunk Really Trash Your Graphs? 4 Discoveries from Research

Among graph-makers, a debate rages. One camps say remove all “non-essential” items from graphs, including gridlines, tick marks and even color inside the bars – what […]
May 8, 2011

The Secrets of Storytelling in the Boardroom, Part 6 – 4 Ways to Structure Your Preso as a Story

(Back to part 1). So far we’ve talked about how to use stories, or story elements, to introduce a presentation. But what about the rest of […]
May 7, 2011

My Favorite Dilbert Video on PowerPoint

This is my favorite Dilbert video. It’s hilarious because it’s true. 1. Business audiences don’t read text documents. PowerPoint is replacing text documents in many businesses. […]
May 6, 2011

3 Stephen Few Graph Makeovers. Which is Your Favorite?

I’m a big Stephen Few fan and have learned a ton about designing graphs, tables and information dashboards from his books and his graph makeovers. But there was one […]
May 4, 2011

5 Exciting Alternatives to Boring PowerPoint Charts and Tables

I was presenting the Mindworks Presentation Method to a team at Microsoft this week and I asked them what challenges they had creating PowerPoint slides. One person commented […]
May 2, 2011

The Secrets of Storytelling in the Boardroom, Part 5 – Increase Interest with the Inciting Incident

In the last blog post, we discussed the first way to incorporate storytelling into your boardroom presentation by using a story to grab the audience’s attention […]
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