Archive for June, 2008
Online services for creating presentations
Here’s a helpful list from ReadWriteWeb of online services which allow you to create presentations in the comfort of your own browser. The one on the list which most intrigued me was Slide Rocket.
I’ve also been playing with a new Flash presentation creator called Flypaper – I love their tag line “stories that stick.” [...]
Posted: June 28th, 2008 under Online Resources, Visual Aids.
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Presentations without slides
I was listening to a webinar with Nancy Duarte and she refers to a No Slide Zone during Oracle’s 2007 OpenWorld conference. The idea was that presentations within the zone had to be made without any PowerPoint or other slide materials. She called the experiment “interesting,” but a “completely Luddite approach.”
As a confirmed [...]
Posted: June 27th, 2008 under Audience Interaction, Business Presentations, Games.
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Online collaboration tool makes great proving ground
What if you don’t have the time, the venue, or the people to run through some practice presentations in person? I’ve been trying out a free online tool that might help. It’s called Elluminate, an e-learning system used by a lot of academics to do virtual collaboration and teaching. Here’s a screenshot:
Now [...]
Posted: June 18th, 2008 under Online Resources, Preparation, Visual Aids.
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Welcome
The title of this blog is a great summary of everything I work towards in my own presentations and when I’m helping clients: keep it simple, keep it passionate.
I want to share my ideas about those key points and lots of other details about giving great presentations. And definitely have some fun with [...]
Posted: June 15th, 2008 under Announcements.
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