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PowerPoint Animations and Transition Effects: it’s like putting an earring on...
You can’t ‘guild the lily’, you shouldn’t put a bling earring on a baby, and a dog is never improved by a leather coat. It’s already got one, hasn’t it? Yes, these are matters of taste, and taste is...
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What are the Presentation Skills I Need?
I’ve seen a lot of business presentations – and given almost as many. I often get asked by clients, the people I coach, and guests at speaking engagements: what are the presentation skills I need to...
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Why not go naked? Drop your PowerPoint pants? Are you mad?
I get a bit frustrated with the ‘PowerPoint is evil’ brigade. They’re out in force on the internet, and they have their right to a point of view. I just think they’re wrong. PowerPoint, Prezi,...
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How to use PowerPoint brilliantly in one simple image
Here it is. In all of the detail about slide design, visual and verbal channels, psychology, and blah, blah, blah; I’ve finally found the image that cuts through all the crap. This is how every one...
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Using PowerPoint for Business Presentations – The Truth
Better to let them read if you have terrible visual aids Some research done in Germany earlier this year gives some surprising insight into the best ways of using PowerPoint for business...
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10 Rules for Great Visual Aids
If you’ve read our blog post What are the Presentation Skills I Need? you already understand the importance of visual aids when you’re presenting. We’ve boiled down all of our advice about visual aids...
View ArticleScott Berkun Hates Prezi- and he’s got a point
I see his point, and feel no need to comment, or disagree. In short, he says- To this day I have yet to see a Prezi presentation that would not have been better had the speaker used something else,...
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Do you really want to be told your presentation is CRAP? – Yes!!
To many it wouldn’t seem like a compliment but actually it is. If you follow the basic design principles that are commonly referred to as CRAP you can’t really go wrong (and what applies to...
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Too much text? Don’t let your bullet points shoot you in the foot.
You’ve maybe come across the term ‘Death by PowerPoint’? Or the alternative: Now you know where the term came from. Can you imagine sitting through more and more of just such slides? I’m sure you’ve...
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PowerPoint’s Hidden Gems Part 1 – not a lot of people know this
The point – Don’t waste time creating brilliant, ‘one off’ slides in PowerPoint. Understand and use the brilliant slide master and layout tool for all formatting, layout and animation effects for your...
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Presentation Summit 2015 – Why have I spent $20,000 plus time to be in New...
#presum15 It’s 3am New Orleans time. I’m wide awake in my room at the name hotel on Bourbon St, where I’ve chosen to be for the next 4 days at the Presentation Summit 2015. I spent 18 hours...
View ArticleLessons for conference speakers- Snakes and Ladders
Last week I attended my first Independent Publisher’s Guild UK (IPG) Conference. I was there at the recommendation of Antonella Pearce, the excellent Publisher Relations Manager of the Publisher’s...
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How to Use Bullet Points in Presentation Slides
Have you heard of the “Death by PowerPoint” movement? I’m not sure you could actually call it a movement, but it’s a way to summarise the many people who are fed up of being bored senseless by business...
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When to ditch PowerPoint for Prezi – Occasionally
I spent last Friday working with the creative team from JC Decaux in NYC. I was running a Prezi Training Course for them. They’re a very talented and impressive bunch. I was working with Pam, Renaud,...
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Prezi The Second Wave – Prezi v PowerPoint
From my Prezi The Second Wave Publication. If you enjoy this post, download the full, free publication from the link below. Prezi had no built-in visual structure – templates, slides, layouts, paths,...
View ArticleDid the Presentation Summit 2015 do its job?
In a previous post, I asked why I had spent thousands of pounds to attend the Presentation summit 2015 in New Orleans. In this post I answer the question and lead in to a set of posts highlighting the...
View ArticleA three line presentation strategy for the bravest business speaker – You?
As a guy who works with lots of big corporates, writing speeches, rehearsing speakers for big pitches and presentations, I’m forever coming up against the ‘Corporate Template Trial’. The corporate...
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