Dear Screaming Crowds:
You were at it again last night. When your speaker says “Thank you” a few times, that’s a clue they’re ready to begin; when they say it 14 times, that means “Shut up.”
Sincerely,
Your Speaker
Perhaps in an effort to try and best the Democratic crowd at the opening of Obama’s acceptance speech, Republicans [...]

Want a visual way of analyzing word usage in your presentations? Then you’ll love Wordle.net. It creates a word cloud of your most commonly-used words, and gives you a lot of control over what it looks like.
I entered the text of Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention last night, and you’ll [...]

Dear Screaming Crowds:
Please let your speaker get on with their speech.
Sincerely,
Your Speaker
Last night, it took 1:59 for the crowds at the Democratic Convention to let Barack Obama begin his speech. For those who were counting, he did 32 “thank yous” in an attempt to get them to stop. Adulation is one thing, but [...]

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 [...]

Always a fan of improv comedy – to watch and to do for sharpening presentation skills – I was fascinated to read about what I call improv presentations. Its practitioners call it Presentation Karaoke; the idea being that you have to present for five minutes using a slide show you’ve never seen before. [...]