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Here’s an interesting question: Is there an optimal age that a company should want the majority of its employees to be? In other words, do people of a certain age make better employees, in general? Here’s Here’s why I ask: Recently, Recently, I wrote a blog item about

We’re producing tons of CO2 each year, Can we generate an energy source that doesn’t produce carbon? TED loved the release of the mosquitoes last year, and this year he released fireflies, because they produce light. Wow, Gates did a great job at TED this year. Why is he suddenly a great communicator and presenter?

lot of material is produced in HD now, then crunched down to standard DVD resolution for the live presentation.  Use an Event Producer Hire Hire an experienced creative producer to plan out the presentation for you. Tags: Staging bass subs event producers PowerPoint stage sets technical tips theatrical Last post we spoke of how two revolutions have overlapped to lower the quality of picture and sound reproduction in every area of our lives. The digital entertainment revolution has compressed everything to fit through the web, and the Chinese manufacturing revolution

Every restaurant produces FOG, as it is known. Cutting through the FOG By By Paul Lima Special Special to the Globe and Mail Fat, Fat, oil and grease. While some grease can be reused, a great

Here’s a quick video I produced for you guys with an accompanying PDF that will hopefully help focus your strategy on high-stakes presentations (where there’s the most pay-off). The In every Q & A I get the same question: I’m in a culture that thinks presentations are fine being hideous and ineffectual, what should I do? The Presentation Landscape has examples of which presentations to fight for and fight hard for and which ones are distracting skirmishes that you should not bother with.

Sparse visual cues could lead to better encoding of information — that is, having to work a little bit harder to integrate the speaker’s narrative with the pictures might actually improve our storage of the information (obviously this is only true up to a point; having to work too hard at integrating the two could actually be counterproductive, effectively producing a situation with high extraneous cognitive load). At last, we have some scientifically rigorous evidence to show that slides full of bullet-points don’t work. The research is the work of Chris Atherton ,

We decided to let the audience see the cheeseburger right next to the oil it took to produce it. Duarte had the distinct pleasure of working with bestselling author Michael Pollan to turn his ideas about sustainability and food systems into a visual presentation for the PopTech conference last month. Plan to eat your lunch in front of the computer today so you can enjoy his presentation:

If your presentation talks about how to give better presentations, then tweet something like “Here are 5 tips to ensure your next presentation produces results [add link].” With social media growing as a popular resource for businesses to reach out and connect with customers and prospects, presenters need to look outside of the room where they give presentations. Sharing them on the Internet establishes your expertise, shows how you think, spreads your brand and provides yummy link juice.

Today, our current approach to PowerPoint is: - Overloading our audiences with too much information - Throwing in everything but the kitchen sink - Just doing a data dump - Usually not communicating a good story - Being too generic - one deck fits all - Not succeeding at helping an audience remember key messages - Creating decks that don't get used, or just one or two slides are pulled - Not producing a crisp communication package Where would we like to be is a place where we: - Find a better approach for internal and external presentations - Tell a clear story - Increase our audiences'