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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
I’m excited to announce an unprecedented opportunity for you to hear top presentation experts present on what they know best: How to create outstanding presentations! Never before have so many famous presenters come together to speak to you, people who present day in and day out. It’s called “ Outstanding Presentations Workshop.&#
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Everyone Communicates, Few Connect is a book about speaking in a way that connects with the audience. Author John C. Maxwell makes the point that no matter what you say (even with your body language), you’re communicating something, but it takes more effort to connect with people. Three ideas that he offers to activate your audience are to.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
To introduce a panel at a panel discussion or employees to a group, you can create a slide with their photos, name, title, and so on. Because you want to speak about each person in turn, you can use animation to display each person’s photo and name when you click. Here is one approach you can use. This will contain the photo.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
This short slidecast by Karl Kapp shows great makeovers. You'll learn a lot about how to avoid death by PowerPoint
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
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 one
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Monday, August 24, 2009
I have a new blog (using WordPress) which will let people add comments. 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 [link] and click on the RSS button (the label says "Posts") to continue to get the tips. Thanks
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Sunday, June 14, 2009
There was a coding error (my fault) in the tip, "Convert PowerPoint to video (SWF - Flash movie format)." quot; Thanks to those of you who brought it to my attention. It's now been fixed and the entire tip is now visible
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
When I do my webinars, I end with a summary slide to help the audience members remember what I’ve said. slide with a list of bullet points won’t work very well, because text doesn’t jog the memory. So I use a visual summary slide. Here’s an example. PowerPoint visual summary slide. Create your shapes.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Ellen Finkelstein has organized a series of webinar presentations with a great line up of presenters. And not only will you not have any travel and accommodation costs, the webinars themselves are free! To sign up for the webinars go to this webpage: Outstanding Presentations Workshop. Here’s the schedule for the webinars. Speaker. Times.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Enthusiasm is a necessary qualification for effective speaking. When you show enthusiasm it is contagious. The enjoyment and knowledge that is demonstrated for your subject will result in increased listener enjoyment and your speech being more convincing. The feeling of excitement must come through as you deliver. Have an active interest in people.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
My congratulations to Mike Folie (a speechwriting seminar alum) and Tim Becker, who announced that their spec screenplay, THEY SHOOT WEDDINGS, DON’T THEY?, is one of 35 finalists in the Final Draft Big Break Scriptwriting Contest. This is quite an honor … more than 3,500 entries were submitted from around the world.Go
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Monday, May 11, 2009
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). Ben Saunders ). Thou Shalt Tell a Story. Although Dr.
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Monday, September 7, 2009
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 Thinking is for changing concepts and perception," says de Bono. Seven principles for changing your perception Kanso (??) Fukinsei (???) Shizen (??)
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Monday, August 10, 2009
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? believe there is. 1) Embrace constraints.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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. would love to see more tools available which work within the most common slideware – PowerPoint and Keynote.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
At last, we have some scientifically rigorous evidence to show that slides full of bullet-points don’t work. The research is the work of Chris Atherton , a cognitive psychologist. Chris recently delivered a presentation at the Technical Communication UK Conference and has put up her slides on slideshare. The research. Sparse slides.
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