The first time I heard the word “default” used in the world of technology, I wasn’t sure what the person meant. I hadn’t been in IT long and everyone else seemed to know what the guy was talking about but me. I was embarrassed to ask but eventually I figured out from the context that the “default” was the way a computer program comes up as originally programmed. The program can be changed, but it takes action on the part of the person using the program …
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 Tags: business presentations, Don't Bore Your Audience, Hard to read slides, improve your presentation, PowerPoint Presentations, presentation audience
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You’ve seen slides of this ilk before.
The title on the slide said something like the 3 Most Important Points to Remember about XYZ.
That was followed by
1. Here’s the First Point
2. Here’s the Second Point
Then instead of the Third Point, the speaker had a cartoon pasted at the bottom of the slide.
It was a cleaver cartoon and the caption along the bottom made the speaker’s third point with brilliance and humor.
But here was the problem.
The cartoon was at the bottom of the slide. The caption …
Read MoreThursday, April 19th, 2012 Tags: Audiences, business presentations, Hard to read slides, Improve Your Presenation, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Mistakes, PowerPoint Presentations, PowerPoint Slide Tips, PowerPoint Tips, presentation audience, Presentation mistakes, Reading Your Audience, Your Audience
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