This slide was used to make the point that “it’s not always the content that grabs the listener, but the packaging.”

I think the examples pictured here in fact make the point that presentations are not gifts…
Grabbing the audience’s attention with packaging is fine, as long as the content grabs them even more. You might [...]

Think we’ve made a lot of advances with visual presentations? Check out this page entitled “It’s 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future” featuring slides from an IBM presentation. Can’t imagine how much work it would have taken to create that presentation 33 years ago – technology today would [...]

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.” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]