With all the recent emphasis on the design of your PowerPoints (Keynote for the Mac), it's time to revisit the fact that your visuals are NOT your presentation. think that the emphasis on PowerPoints (we'll call them PP for brevity) is because 2008 WAS a great year for great design with the publication of Garr Reynolds' book "Presentation Zen" and Nancy Duarte's "slide:ology" (both still best sellers on Amazon.) You and your Point of View are the centerpiece. I

AEs give demo presentations for a living and they have speaking and travel schedules to prove it. In the world of presentation skills the demo presentation stands alone. Most public speakers multitask—they must concentrate on their message, coordinate their non-verbal and verbal delivery skills, manage their staging and technical requirements and synchronize their PowerPoint slideware. Last week I was in Charlotte, NC teaching a technical presentation skills program for one of my favorite clients, Autodesk. Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: 

I have been experimenting with PPT 2010 most of last month and can say this is the most excited I have been about PowerPoint in years! On Microsoft's PowerPoint Team Blog a new video highlighting some of the great effects was posted last week - here it is: - Tags: PowerPoint Resource/Mis Troy @ TLC Original post blogged on b2evolution . ...Tags:

There are a few other download options on their site here , including the actual (gulp) PowerPoint deck (sans Bill's special font). Displaying the presenter & the visual simultaneously Below are a few screen captures from the website. And Apple's iPod more recently). It's not about the thing! It's about the experience. Oops, demo didn't work (but he moved on quickly). Creativity, Design, & the return on Experience Bill was not introducing new products nor tasked

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There is an astounding difference (not an exaggeration) between the tools, canvas placement, typographic control, and overall aesthetics in Keynote compared to PowerPoint. Once you become familiar with Keynote, which isn’t an arduous process, the productivity and just plain enjoyment you’ll experience using it over PowerPoint is completely worth any switching costs. The problem is when I want to demo something 20 tips for better conference speaking ~ 16 February 2009 ~ View from on stage as I’m preparing to speak at An Event Apart New Orleans 2008.

While writing the next book, I’ve been in speech analysis-mode, and have considered including an analysis on this speech as an example of what not to do… but I love PowerPoint too much to do that. We’ll have a chance to show you some of how this comes together in just a minute as Brad Brooks starts his demo. Matt Lauer said that the launch of Windows 7 was the most important launch Microsoft had done in ten years. If that’s true, why’d it suck so much?

I was inspired by this blog post on using PowerPoint as a photo editor instead of Photoshop. The demo is shown in PowerPoint 2007 and the one aspect of the instructions that I was intrigued about was when he showed how to convert a rectangle to a set of points and then curve the sides. Unfortunately, you can’t do that in PowerPoint 2003 because it does not have the feature of converting a shape to points. So I started playing with the tools that PowerPoint 2003 does have to see if I could achieve the same result. It turns out that you can create a rectangle

It is almost here - PowerPoint 2010! a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP I have talked with the development team, seen demos, been asked questions and overall impressed. The month of November is going to almost entirely be focused on PowerPoint 2010... I have been running the pre-beta - beta for 2 months and here it is! As

Use Camtasia, Jing or even PowerPoint to bring your tutorials to life. Tape your event or speaking engagement – Weather you’re a speaker, author or occasional guest panelist, be sure to tape your live event so you can use it as a demo video on your website. Stand Out from the Marketing Crowd Thanks to Lou Bortone , video marketing guru for this guest post In an over-crowded and hyper-competitive marketplace, video marketing can help you break through the clutter and deliver your message in a powerful and memorable way.