would love to see more tools available which work within the most common slideware – PowerPoint and Keynote. That’s because I think it’s much easier for you as a presenter if there’s just one application open on your laptop – rather than having to click between applications during your presentation. Both Keynote and PowerPoint have add-ins which allow you to automatically send a tweet when you click on a slide. 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

PowerPoint users are frequently seen standing in one place, pushing a button on their computer to advance their slides. Tags: Quick Fixes My Favorite Tools Public Speaking Techniques and Strategies Resources PowerPoin Since we've been talking about coming out from behind the lectern , let's talk about coming out from behind the computer . This is almost as restrictive as standing behind a lectern, although sometimes people walk around in between slides.

How to Change the World A practical blog for impractical people. « A Brief History of Mine | Main | Resolution Assistance » December 30, 2005 The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint I suffer from something called Ménière’s disease—don’t worry, you cannot get it from reading my blog. Before there is an epidemic of Ménière’s

Inspired by Laura Bergells' recent PowerPoint propaganda post about changing fashions in PowerPoint, Olivia Mitchell pulled together a group of bloggers to participate in a group writing project about what we'd like to see in PowerPoint slide design this year. I could go on and on about how to make PowerPoint presentations more effective, but I'll stick to my top three suggestions for how I'd like to see speakers using PowerPoint in 2009 (you'll notice that I've strayed from the topic of "design" a bit). Check back at Olivia's blog next week (I'll remind you) for links to all the posts.

But if you want even more flexibility to write from other places in the room, or to let your audience write on the screen, try Papershow , a more portable solution that works around the shortcomings of white boards and it works with imported PowerPoint presentations. These don’t add much weight to a briefcase or laptop bag. If you don’t have a  Tablet PC to write directly on your slides during a BBP presentation, you can always use a whiteboard as a companion to your screen.  What Comes in the Package

And when using PowerPoint, sometimes the small tips make the biggest impact. These tips are ways to use PowerPoint that, once you discover them, you see how valuable they will be to you. 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 It is usually the little things in life that can make the biggest difference.

So my #1 feature of PowerPoint 2010 is a bit intangible, but easily seen and that is the slideshow performance is great. And all of this is while running the pre-beta version on a very small laptop with a 64MB graphics card, 1.5 Tags: PowerPoin My top request, hope, begging was for slideshow performance. Bobby at Microsoft reassured my for more than a year all my animations would run great - and they do! (This

The first gives an excellent reminder in 6 easy steps on how to connect a laptop to your projector and the other gives 3 questions to ask when choosing a projector to purchase . Tags: PowerPoint Tools Presentation Technology Projectors choosing a LCD projector connecting a projector to your lapto I apologize for not posting for a couple of weeks. I took a vacation away from the computer, blogging and any other responsibilities.

Conference they are probably attached to a laptop or mobile device of some sort. You show a PowerPoint slide that dynamically charts responses Since (nearly) everyone at this conference would have a laptop–or a smart phone–they could load this chat room and join the discussion right where they were sitting. It Last month Nancy Duarte spoke at Web2.0 Expo and it was a huge success.

Keeping the audience eyes’ on you rather than their laptops benefits both you and the audience. Test legibility by sitting six feet back from your laptop display. There is an astounding difference (not an exaggeration) between the tools, canvas placement, typographic control, and overall aesthetics in Keynote compared to PowerPoint. 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. I’ll be straight up with you: I don’t profess to be an expert speaker.