If you’re ever stuck thinking of ways to communicate information visually, then bookmark the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods. All you do is mouse-over one of the squares on the table and you’re presented with a visual sample of how you can organize materials.

And because the table is from the Visual Literacy group, it’s [...]

I was at a presentation recently where the amount of material on the slides and the paucity of information in the presentation itself were such that the person was nothing more than a narrator for the slide show.
Slides and multimedia are there to enhance your information. If everything you have to say is up [...]

Saw this great spelling error the other day on a blog: attention spam. I say ‘great’ because it created an expression that captures a concept I’ve been thinking about for a long time: there’s so much information and just plain stimuli bombarding our brains each day that we’re suffering from attention spam.
Whenever [...]

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 [...]