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Monday, April 7, 2008
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
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
My new Campaign Against Death by PowerPoint aims to improve presentations skills and reduce the suffering of audiences. 4) If the presenter commits Death by PowerPoint, give the presenter the invitation.
The white paper, “From Death by PowerPoint to Life by PowerPoint with the Tell ‘n’ Show SM Method,” is a mini-course in itself. Instead of waiting for presenters to wake up and read the good advice of presentation experts, I want to harness the audience. The campaign lets the audience fight back—and help presenters.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
PowerPoint’s been around longer than the World Wide Web easily by a country mile. When When use of the Web became popular, URLs started invading slide decks. Sometimes The problem with putting URLs in your slides is that though the intent may be noble, the end result is the opposite of what was intended.
Sometimes they were inserted so the audience could write them down later, or if the slides were abused as handouts, the thought was they could be copied into the browser. Some Some presenters used them to launch demos of Web sites.
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
You can embed a YouTube video into a PowerPoint presentation. From the URL text box, copy the URL to the clipboard.
In PowerPoint 2007, go to Developer tab> Controls group. If you don’t see the Developer tab, click the Office button> PowerPoint Options. For example, your company may have videos on YouTube that you would like to show. If you’re sure that you’ll have a live Internet connection when you present, you can use this method.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
It is cognitive dissonance in action. • Think of the problem with PowerPoint presentations filled with text, (also well documented in this blog and Presentation Zen and others. ) We’ve all had the sad but common experience of reading ahead, as the speaker says, “Now stay with me.” If you have a group listening to a speaker (supposedly) and tweeting about the speaker’s 140 character sound bites (supposedly) and looking at the text and PowerPoints, and reading other Tweeter’s tweets, and looking up urls – chaos reigns in the mind. Business speakers (and leaders, keynoters, politicians, Pastors and, well, everyone…) need to be aware that like it or not, Twitter is coming to their speaking experience. Be Aware, and Beware!
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
The presenter who loves his audience the most, wins. Posted by Seth Godin on March 05, 2009 | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451b31569e2011279127ed328a4 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference The two elements of a great presenter : » popurls.com | popular today from popurls.com | popular today story has entered the popular today section on popurls.com [Read More] Tracked
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Friday, May 1, 2009
DarrenBarefoot.com Contact Jobs Speaking About Home September 3rd, 2007 Filed under: Mixed Bag , Technology , The Arts 71 Comments » Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School An Unlikely Education I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, and was inspired to get it done by Merlin Mann’s recent piece about improving his use of PowerPoint. Entertain your audience, and they’ll
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
You should know the presentation so well that you could do it without PowerPoint and without notes. Dont use PowerPoint as a TelePrompTer. PowerPoint is not a speakers crutch; it is a way to illustrate your spoken point. Photo of me presenting in Istanbul, Turkey on February 25, 2009 courtesy MediaCat . Web Ink Now Follow me on Twitter Your email address: Powered by FeedBlitz Search this blog WWW www.webinknow.com THE BEST OF WEB INK NOW Top ten tips for incredibly successful public speaking The one question to ask your prospective social media agency No blog?
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Saturday, March 7, 2009
Home Presentation eBook Blog About Best Posts Content PowerPoint Nervousness Delivery Audience Contact Browse > Home / Audience / 8 things I learnt about using twitter as a participation tool 8 things I learnt about using twitter as a participation tool March 1, 2009 by Olivia Mitchell Welcome to this blog - my aim is to make a difference to the success of your presentations. If you found this post useful, subscribe to my RSS feed. Related posts: Is Twitter a good
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Monday, September 7, 2009
The majority of PowerPoint templates are terrible. I'm referring to the default templates found within PowerPoint and Keynote, as well as those created by design firms that don't specialize in presentation design. They are often designed with a color at the top and a color at the bottom, with a logo and URL slapped on every slide. Typical Templates: I hate most templates. These are the templates that include a title slide and a content slide. That's it.
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