April 2011

April 11, 2011

The Secrets of Storytelling in the Boardroom, Part 2 – Four Reasons to Use Storytelling

In our last blog post, we learned that lawyers, non-profit marketers, advertisers, educators and others use stories effectively to explain and convince. But why do audiences […]
April 9, 2011

4 Animation Effects I’d Like to See

Brent Dykes at the PowerPoint Ninja blog discusses new transition effects in PowerPoint 2010. In particular, he makes an interesting distinction between the transitions that happen […]
April 6, 2011

5 Ways to Add Pizzazz to PowerPoint Data

Nick Morgan, from the Forbes.com blog, shares these 5 tips for presenting data through a PowerPoint slide. Now I love data. As a market researcher, I […]
April 4, 2011

The Secrets of Storytelling in the Boardroom, Part 1 – The Power of Storytelling

“Storytelling” is a hot topic in the presentation world. Whenever I tell people that I wrote a book on how to use PowerPoint in business, their […]
April 2, 2011

Are Business Leaders Asking the Right Questions?

This Forbes.com blog post by Steve Denning argues that in some companies, business presentations are merely a ritual meant to impress the next level up, rather […]
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