There’s a revolution in the design of PowerPoint slides, but not the delivery. Here are five methods that will make the delivery of your PowerPoint presentation stand out. This works best with a PowerPoint slide with a plain background with your message written on it in a clear font in a large point size. Most speakers still rely on their slides to cue them. They click, they talk, click, talk, click, talk…

On Monday evening, I ran a PowerPoint Karaoke contest at the Cape Communicators Toastmaster Club. We had about 10 people who were each given a random deck of PowerPoint slides, and they were given about three minutes to present a presentation using their slides. It is a great way to both practise your impromptu speaking skills, and to have some practise with PowerPoint. This is the first one that I have ran, and it was a fantastic evening! It was all in good fun, and we had some very interesting takes on the topics.

Many folks focus relentlessly on rehearsing what I'll call the technical aspects of the presentation: the room, the PowerPoint. the computer, the back-ups, the video display, the lighting, the remote, the microphone. Tags: video Presentation PowerPoin Practice makes perfect, right? Not really. What

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.

Seth Godin recently posted his Nine steps to Powerpoint magic . Powerpoint is for ideas. Get a remote. I understand that he's suggesting ten minutes for big ideas (your PowerPoint) and "the rest of your time" for talking, interaction and discussion, which I agree should make up the majority of a presentation. Some of his "steps, not rules" are cheeky, like this one: "4. Pay by the word.

The New York Times reported that touchscreen smartphones like the iPhone have found new utility as universal remotes for televisions and for projectors using PowerPoint. PowerPoint remote application for the iPhone (and the iPod Touch) called i-Clickr. The application connects to PowerPoint on a PC and displays the According to the article " Senstic makes a $9.99 i-Clickr.

8221; Laura Bergells, @maniactive and More than PowerPoint “Don’t With steps to take before, during and after your presentation, Mitchell creates a useful path that underscores what it takes to effectively engage a live (and remote) audience today.  Related posts: The two best alternatives to Twitter as a presentation backchannel Powerpoint Twitter Magic – now you can tweet from PowerPoint Is Twitter a good thing while you’re presenting? Presenting with Twitter can be challenging. Just about every week a new story

I'm building a PowerPoint for a client who will be speaking at a conference this summer. She asked me in several places to put multiple points on one slide and have them "fly in" as she clicked the remote. Tags: Technology Public Speaking Techniques and Strategies PowerPoin My suggestion to her was to put each point on its own slide with its own image. That way, each individual idea stands out on its own.

PowerPoint users are frequently seen standing in one place, pushing a button on their computer to advance their slides. So let me share another of my favorite tools , the wireless presentation remote . The remote allows me to move around the stage or speaking area unhindered by my equipment. 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.

But just because remote mouse manufacturers put laser pointers into their remotes doesn’t mean you should use it. Tags: Delivery Hans Rosling PowerPoint Visual aid Public speaking and presenting are full of silly rules. One such silly rule is that you shouldn’t walk into into the beam of the projector. I