This short slidecast by Karl Kapp shows great makeovers. You'll learn a lot about how to avoid death by PowerPoin

Speaking Pro Central collects blog posts from many PowerPoint, presentation, and speaking sites, including EllenFinkelstein.com. It's a blog, too. On the right, you see a list of the sources and you can quickly go to a page with the latest posts on each on

I have a new blog (using WordPress) which will let people add comments. I think it's a great improvement and I hope you'll think so, too. But the RSS feed's URL is different. Please go to http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/pptblog/ and click on the RSS button (the label says "Posts")

How do you put video files into PowerPoint? Can you show video in a PowerPoint presentation? The answer is yes! In fact, it's very easy. Video files come in several formats. The formats that work well in

In my “Create an Outstanding Presentation” workshops and self-study course , I teach four layouts that always look good. I taught them again recently in a presentation skills class for college students. I

TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to speak at TED are given 18-minute slots maximum (some are for even less time such as 3- and 6-minute slots). Some who present at TED are not used to speaking on a large stage, or are at least not used to speaking on their topic with strict time restraints.

Exposing ourselves to traditional Japanese aesthetic ideas — notions that may seem quite foreign to most of us — is a good exercise in lateral thinking, a term coined by Edward de Bono in 1967. "Lateral Lateral Thinking is for changing concepts and perception," says de Bono. Beginning to think about design by exploring the tenets of the Zen aesthetic may not be an example of Lateral Thinking

Most people do not really think about design and designers, let alone think of themselves as designers. But what, if anything, can regular people — teachers, students, business people of all types — learn from designers and from thinking like a designer? And what of more specialized professions?

Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience. Gradually tools are being developed to make it easier for you as the presenter to manage the backchannel. I

People often ask if technical or science-related presentations can be as compelling as presentations covering other less technical topics. Now, not every presentation has earth-shattering, Nobel-Prize winning significance, but I assume if you are talking about your research or current issues in your field, etc. that your words have a benefit for someone else.