February 17, 2011
Slide titles are often hard to see against a cluttered background. But here’s a great trick for making your slide title pop, even when the background […]
February 17, 2011
Bring your boring business slides to life by adding pictures of people. Where do you find pictures that are free, look professional and give you full […]
February 16, 2011
Here’s a neat trick for turning clip art into your own set of professional-looking custom icons, which I learned from the talented presentation designer Magda Maslowska. Enjoy! About […]
February 9, 2011
In a previous post I blogged about President Obama’s State of the Union speech, where he actually used SLIDES! On one hand, I think it improved […]
February 2, 2011
Feb 7-11 is “Say No to PowerPoint” week. What a bone-headed idea. I suggest instead “PowerPoint Training Week”. Saying no to PowerPoint solves the problem for […]
January 28, 2011
We can learn a lot about how to use storytelling in presentations from President Obama’s “We Do Big Things” part of the State of the Union […]
January 23, 2011
You have an upcoming executive presentation. People in the room will develop opinions about you and your ideas based on your PowerPoint slides, which you have carefully […]
January 14, 2011
Remember the last time you presented to an executive? How did it go? Did you get what you wanted? Did the exec? Did you nail it […]
September 11, 2010
Business managers are still struggling with PowerPoint for internal communications says a study by presentation consulting firm Eyeful Presentations. This isn’t news, but what is news […]