don't usually suggest PowerPoint or Keynote "how-to" books, but instead recommend reading books from various design and communication fields to stretch your knowledge and perspective. Below are ten additional books I can highly recommend; three of them I have recommended before. Books are good, but which ones? Amazon link.).

One tool that Doriano Carta of Mashable recommends is tweetworks because it enables you to set up ad hoc groups on the fly. Tags: Blogging Content Marketing Knowledge Center News Online Social Media Tips & Mini-Guides Trends Perhaps, it best likened to a tool like a hammer which is simultaneously simple and powerful.

This is not a format I recommend. Using the actual slides as your notes is something I strongly recommend against. Here are some more great tips on creating notes from Olivia Mitchell at Speaking About Presenting. They seem to think notes are cheating or make them look like they're unsure of their material. is a resounding "Yes."

Tips for Presentation Handouts. If your slides are bullet-point slides (not recommended) then they will often be cut-down sentences which will no longer make sense to the reader a week later. And if they are visual slides (recommended) then they’re also unlikely to make sense without additional text. ve been guilty of this.

Here are six teeny tiny touchy-feely tips -- frequently overlooked -- that can enormously improve your rehearsals and your final presentation. photo credit: zak mc Those are my top six touchy feely tips. You can also read what other presentation bloggers recommend about rehearsing this month. Practice makes perfect, right?

Jerry’s book The Power Presenter has many tips on connecting with the audience but what it has–that no other book to date does–are real historic video examples. In Jerry’s chapter called “Learn to Speak with your body language” he gives three tips combined into an acronym: ERA ( E ye Connect, R each Out, A nimation).

The best public speakers tend, on average to speak a bit slower so i would recommend that you start of with around 100 wpm and see how you get on. When I first started writing speeches, I struggled to know how many words to write for a speech of a given length.  The only way I would know was to rehearse the speech and time how long it lasted.

If you communicate the hashtag to attendees before the presentation, you can generate interest in your upcoming presentation by tweeting questions or recommended links and resources thereby facilitating a dialogue before you actually speak. Tags: Presentation Tips and Techniques Twitter business presentations hashtag Twitter HASHTAGS.

Attention spans are getting shorter, which is why I recommend that speakers need a strong, fast start. Tags: presentation skills speaker training social media public speaking tips Public speaking comes with a lot of assumptions baked into it--forms, formats and formalities that have been used over and over again for centuries.

Sometimes sadness comes with the territory, as when this reader had to deliver her mother's eulogy; read her recommendations for getting through that sad speaking task. Feel free to share your own tips for using emotion in the comments. Tags: emotion speaker tips fear and public speaking Where's fear? you ask.