June 11, 2012
Have you ever had an audience member disagree with you while you were presenting? I have. I was conducting a workshop at Microsoft with about 15 […]
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 […]
August 9, 2011
Presentation guru Steve Jobs would never unveil iCloud reading the text right off his slides. Would he? Fast forward to (3:17-3:55) and (6:10-6:47) and see for yourself. Isn’t […]
July 25, 2011
Someone recently emailed me and asked this intriguing question: what trends do you see in presentation design in the next 1-3 years? I thought the question was […]
July 22, 2011
Carmine Gallo posted the best PowerPoint tip you’ll ever get on the Forbes.com blog today. And, in truth, this advice is so simple and so profound, it […]
June 9, 2011
Nick Morgan answers an important question on the Forbes.com blog: how do I keep it interesting when I have to present a bunch of dry technical […]
May 10, 2011
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 7, 2011
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. […]
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 […]