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I Love PowerPoint!
There are not many people that would admit or say that they love PowerPoint. I do. I have been in the business of creating electronic slides (often referred to today as making “PowerPoints”) since...
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Guy Kawasaki’s 10-20-30 Rule
Guy Kawasaki is a great speaker that often speaks to entrepreneur groups about how to present their ideas to venture capital groups. His 10-20-30 rule has been getting a lot of tweet time today. It’s...
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Prezi or PowerPoint?
First, I think Prezi is a great presentation tool from what I have seen of it and played around with so far. I have to admit up front that I am PowerPoint biased, having used PowerPoint for 25+ years,...
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Present like Steve Jobs
There has been a good deal of publicity buzz about a new book called The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience by Carmine Gallo. I have only read a few...
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DEATH by Panel Discussions
I attended a conference recently that was 50% Panel Discussions vs 50% Presentations. Panel Discussions seem to be part of the “Anti-PowerPoint” trend. I believe the Panel Presentations “trend” is...
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Terrific Tufte, but Tired of Anti-PowerPoint
I recently attended Edward Tufte’s full day class “Presenting Data and Information” for the second time. I enjoyed it just as much as the first time and highly recommend it for anyone in the business...
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The Enemy is PowerPoint
Financial crisis, Healthcare crisis, and now Mideast crisis all caused by PowerPoint. The horrible program that has tortured millions, maybe billions of people to sit through boring, time wasting...
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PowerPoint is not the enemy, but can be a powerful communication secret weapon, if used well. If you were in a contest to win a million dollars by pitching an idea to a small group of investors for...
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Birth of a Baby PowerPoint
An actual email last night at 10:11pm to eSlide: “Russ, We’ll call you in a few minutes to discuss the edits here. FYI – I may or may not be heading to the hospital with my wife who is expecting our...
View ArticleHow Many Types of Meetings?
Although experts frequently suggest that effective PowerPoint presentations should not include “bullet points” or that presenters should only be using less than 15 slides – these rules are just...
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