October 31, 2011
When you need an icon or symbol, like a lightning bolt or checkmark, it’s sometimes hard to navigate the different Wingdings and Webdings fonts. So I […]
October 26, 2011
I review a lot of PowerPoint decks created by market research firms. And I continue to see a problem with how they present data in tables: […]
October 24, 2011
Sometimes it comes in handy to use numbers within your text to refer to numbers in your diagram. Like this slide. You might just use a […]
October 17, 2011
The typical advice to presenters is almost guaranteed to bore your audience to death: think about what you want the audience to think/feel/do differently after your […]
September 28, 2011
At Michael Jackson’s manslaughter trial, lawyers opened with PowerPoint slides showing Jackson’s dead body under the word “Homicide”. At the Forbes.com blog, Carmine Gallo rightly points this […]
September 27, 2011
The essence of a story is that it has a beginning, middle and end. As an example, take a look at this story, told in three […]
September 15, 2011
Does every story need a hero? The answer is yes. The hero is the heart — the emotional center — of your story. Now, the hero doesn’t […]
August 29, 2011
Here’s Hurricane Irene, showing wind speeds every six hours, as tracked by the National Hurricane Center. She reached Category 3 status over the Caribbean Islands – […]
August 23, 2011
You can bring your boring data to life if you’ll approach your numbers, not as an analyst, but as a journalist. Data just counts the thousands […]