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 [...]

Six Minutes has a great summary of the Democratic Convention speeches – videos of the main players and quotes from various critics were looking at the technical aspects of the speeches rather than the politics.

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 [...]

Found this great list of all-time best presentations as picked by KnowHR – with links to video so you can decide if you agree. They also have a follow-up top 10 from their readers.

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.” [...]

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 [...]