In case you missed these Top 10 Posts, here’s a quick review.
1 – Need to Show a Website While You Present? Two Quick Tricks Using PowerPoint
by Kelly Vandever
Recently I watched a conference presenter who used Google docs slides as part of a presentation. In addition to his Google slides, he went to the live websites (rather than using a screen shot of the website) because the live sites better illustrated the points he was making.
When he came to the …
Read MoreTuesday, December 26th, 2017 Tags: PowerPoint Tips, presentation tips, public speaking tips, speaking tips
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As is our tradition, it’s that time of year when we share the most popular blog posts of the year. As luck – or Google juice – would have it, all but one of the most popular posts were actually posted before 2016.
Review the list and see if there’s any important articles you may have missed!
Enjoy!
#1 – Need to Show a Website While You Present? Two Quick Tips Using PowerPoint!
By Kelly Vandever
I watched a conference presenter who used Google docs …
Read MoreMonday, December 26th, 2016 Tags: PowerPoint Tips, presentation tips, top ten blogs for 2016
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by Tom Nixon
Presenting data to an audience is a challenge. If we just dump a pile of numbers on the screen we can expect those “eyes glazed over” looks that PowerPoint is so famous for. To make numbers meaningful we often turn to a graph or chart to show numbers as visual relationships.
Unfortunately, PowerPoint is all too ready to help us make those many layered, three-dimensional, color coordinated graphs that are just as confusing as the raw data. As the “tour guides” of our presentation we need …
Read MoreMonday, June 6th, 2016 Tags: business presentations, Improve Your Presenation, PowerPoint Presentations, PowerPoint Slide Tips, PowerPoint Tips
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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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In the 4th grade I asked my mom if I could go to summer school. One of the teachers was teaching an acting class over the summer and I wanted to go in the worst way. She agreed and I played my first role ever – Mr. Allen. I took more acting classes in high school and college and acting in several community theater productions in recent years.
Stage actors have a number of tricks that they use that the audience may not notice, …
Read MoreFriday, March 4th, 2011 Tags: PowerPoint Tips
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