May 1, 2011
How to Make an Impact by Jon Moon may be one of the most useful lesser known business books around. For anyone who creates business documents […]
April 27, 2011
Nancy Duarte (author of Resonate and Slideology) and Guy Kawasaki (author of Enchantment) have very different views of presentation design. Whose opinion do you connect with […]
April 26, 2011
(Return to part 1). One of the best examples of using storytelling in front of a skeptical business audience came in 2002 in a business school […]
April 25, 2011
Think PowerPoint is boring? Can only be used to over-complicate (or dumb down) an idea? Turns an otherwise gifted speaker into a droning idiot? Here’s a video that proves […]
April 20, 2011
In my last blog, I discussed the four benefits of using storytelling: clearer message, increased trust, more word of mouth and increased agreement. But what, exactly, […]
April 19, 2011
A webinar is just like a presentation but without the eye contact. Right? Well, maybe not. A presentation is the wrong metaphor for a webinar because […]
April 18, 2011
Textured backgrounds give your slides more personality. Here’s how to create them yourself, using free images available online. Also see this post on textured backgrounds by […]
April 17, 2011
Most successful PowerPoint books talk about PowerPoint as visual support for a speaker in a large audience presentation. But there are few books that discuss it […]
April 16, 2011
In this Business Week article, Peter Bregman asserts the best meetings are the ones that avoid PowerPoint completely. Mr. Bregman has a lot of experience trying […]