and asked us if we would mind sharing some of our tips in the next release of their presentation software, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 . We have had to keep our excitement under wraps during the development of the project, but now that Microsoft has released the public beta of its Office 2010 suite, we can let you know about it! Embedded within PowerPoint 2010 you will find Duarte’s Five Rules for Creating World-Changing Let’s arrange a meet up.  How about inside PowerPoint?

How many executives really want to sit through a 45 slide project update presentation? It doesn’t matter whether you are a formal project manager or just managing the projects that are part of your role, we all have to report on how our projects or initiatives are going. Let me suggest that you use only five slides to update executives on your project. “Five The one where the presenter details every little item and confuses the heck out of them? My guess is that no executives want to spend their valuable time that way.

Check out the project’s process at Airslides’s Blog: http://www.airside.co.uk/blog/?p=420 Check out the project’s process at Jarvis’s site: http://jonathanjarvis.com/crisis-of-credit Simplicity does not necessarily mean skimping out on the meat of your presentation. When handled correctly, complex scenarios and data can still be included while being transformed into something that is easily comprehensible to the average audience member.

If you want to preview your slide show from the current slide in a small preview window in the top right hand corner of your screen, hold the Ctrl key down and click on the Slide Show button at the bottom of the PowerPoint window (It looks like a screen and in PowerPoint 2003 it is in the lower left corner; in PowerPoint 2007 & 2010 it is in the lower right corner). It may not appear that the difference is much on your laptop screen, but when projected large on a big screen, the difference is noticeable and it causes the audience to wonder what went wrong because it looks odd.

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And the Boy Genius Report did a great job capturing images of the slides that were projected. How important is the launch of a new product? Important enough to plan, rehearse, and script something comprehensible? On CNBC, the newscasters compare today’s Google Nexus One launch with the iPhone launch Steve Jobs hosted just two short years ago.

worked with a project manager recently who had great energy but looked at his feet when he spoke.  My dog Balou is a 60-pound, black-lab mix that we adopted at a PetSmart rescue day last year in Sandy Springs.   And if he could only talk and write on a flip chart, I’m sure he’d be a great public speaker. That’s because he understands how to connect with people better than

The Freesound Project is a web site that collects sounds and sound effects (not music) that are available under Creative Commons licensing, and therefore free and legal for anyone to use. It’s also a community; you can register and upload your own sounds for sharing. At the top right, enter a term in the Search box.

A document camera projects live video of what you place in the viewing area below the camera and can be used very effectively during a presentation to do a physical demonstration. So the third option is to use a document camera to project live video of you using the object. When you are projecting a demonstration, you are not the focus of the audience, so move off to the side to use the device This week Google introduced it’s Nexus One smartphone and Nancy Duarte commented on the MSNBC reporters who had universally negative comments about the presentation that was done to introduce the phone ( see Nancy’s blog post here ).

save the company or to get funding for a particular project?   Principle VI:   To become a persuasive communicator you must first consciously master and and then control your ‘second conversation’ – your body language. Many people balk at this idea, that mastery and control of body