Here you’ll find links to all of my blog posts (over 600), organized by category–Content, Design (with several sub-categories), and Delivery.
Content
- What can online course creators learn from other sectors?
- Using Microsoft’s Copilot (AI) in PowerPoint
- Creating and using a strong call-to-action slide
- Choosing a platform for your online course
- Why you need a story for your presentations
- Collaborate with others in real time using PowerPoint on the Web
- Think BIG to create high-impact presentations
- It’s about the audience
- How to start a presentation
- The flipped presentation: A different way to present and create handouts
- How to speak like a leader
- Do you tell, teach, or train?
- Easily create a menu slide with the Zoom feature
- Increase understanding and retention with the Tell ‘n’ ShowSM method
- Why almost all presentations should be persuasive
- Review of “Start strong – 3 gripping ways to open your talk” by Craig Hadden
- 9 tips to design presentations for webinars
- Add power to your message with better slide titles
- Speaking to inspire
- Keep your audience riveted by adding anticipation to storytelling
- Import text from Word or Notepad
- Corporate training-The never-ending course
- The why of presentations–getting results
- Create a system for your message
- Create handouts for data-heavy decision meetings
- How to copy a PowerPoint slide to Microsoft Word
- How to present when there’s no time to prepare
- Speaking with integrity
- 2 ways to collaborate with others on your presentations-Part II
- 2 ways to collaborate with others on your presentations-Part I
- Stupidity, lies and coverups = literal Death — by PowerPoint, or not?
- Start your presentation BIG
- Engage: How to avoid becoming a human tranquilizer by Paul B. Evans
- 7 quick fixes to your slides based on my experience with clients
- Create a tabbed presentation for longer presentations with lots of topics
- Put all benefits on one proposition slide
- Intrigue your audience
- Compare options with the Balance SmartArt layout
- Use the 4 principles of meaningful communication
- Free video training: How to Turn Your Organization’s Leaders into Powerful Presenters
- How to convince executives that presenters need presentation skills training
- The role of persuasion and emotion in training
- Death to agenda slides!
- The difference between a persuasive and an informative presentation
- The #1 thing employers want most in a new hire
- 3 changes you should make in the Options dialog box of PowerPoint
- How to create a self-running presentation
- Add a QR code to your presentation
- How to promote deep processing and transform attitudes
- Create a looping ending for your PowerPoint presentation
- Question your thinking to communicate more clearly
- Why both stories and a storyline are important for your presentations
- 4 keys to successfully teaching a complex subject
- Make your communication personal with photos
- Andrew Dlugan speaks at the Outstanding Presentations Workshop
- Is the presentation dead?
- 2 steps to presenting persuasively: What problem do you solve?
- Organize an action plan presentation like a soldier
- Using presentations for decision-making
- A good introduction/opener
- Successful preparation is the basis for a successful presentation
- Improve your presentations 80% in 20% of your time
- How do you organize and structure your presentation content?
- PowerPoint and the military
- Garr Reynold’s top ten tips
- Write for your audience—and a delicious recipe!
- What makes a successful sales presentation?
- Create a hover-over effect on a slide
- A Death by PowerPoint story from Karen Carleton
- Why do 60% of students find their lectures boring?
- What’s your worst experience watching or delivering a PowerPoint presentation?
- What do you do when you run out of time?
- What goes on the last slide?
- Presentation thought leaders
- Hi-impact, lo-cost marketing with presentations
- Write your ending
- President Obama’s speech on health care
- Support your statements
- Use copywriting principles for your presentations
- Put one point on a slide
- Highlight important words
- How to design more effective slides with the Tell ‘n’ Show(SM) method
- Export all presentation text
- Use an audience-centered structure
- Create section markers
- Do the research!
- Protect a PowerPoint file from changes
- Stay focused with pecha kucha
- Create a visual menu
- Create a drop-down menu
- Create a looping introduction
- Add flexibility with custom shows
- How many bullets should I put on a slide?
- Beyond Words
- Using hyperlinks
- Link to other presentations and return to the original presentation
- Hyperlink to a specific slide in another presentation, or specific location in another file
- Using a Summary Slide for a Question & Answer Session
- Choose titles for a summary slide
- Tell a story, or where’s the point in all this?
- Understand the types of speeches
- Repurpose presentations for a kiosk or the Web
- Add relevance with layers of meaning
- Easily create a quiz in PowerPoint using Visual Basic for Applications
- Organize content with an outline
- Mind Mapping® to Organize Your Presentation
- Add notes in PowerPoint in Slide Show view
- Designing a web-style, menu-based presentation
- Is PowerPoint evil?
- Expand one slide into two
- PowerPoint principles for education
- Quickly get rid of bullets
- Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points
- Base content on your audience
- Create slides from audience input
- Choose words for your audience
- 3 Components of an Effective Presentation
Design
Animation & transitions
- Engage your audience with triggers
- Create an animated intro for videos in PowerPoint
- Circle an object
- Use triggers to create interactive presentations
- Slow image animation for a cinematic look
- How to animate 3D objects in PowerPoint
- Easily create a menu slide with the Zoom feature
- Wishing you & the world all the best in 2017!
- Visualizing concepts-24-hour protection
- 4 steps to create a video from PowerPoint slides
- Create cool animation with Morph in Office 365
- Create an animated announcement
- Create a lightbox or mask effect in PowerPoint to focus attention
- Add pop-up text to explain a slide
- Create an animated announcement
- Annoying animation–don’t make people wait for the text to appear!
- Your presentation deserves the same respect as your website and brochures!
- Easily sync lyrics with a music video in PowerPoint
- Sync animation with a video or audio
- Create a video zoom effect from photos in PowerPoint
- Animate with transitions for cool effects
- Happy New Year — 2014!
- Use text as a graphic
- Illustrate a story on a PowerPoint slide
- How to create a self-running presentation
- The wonderful Selection pane lets you easily hide objects, select them and even rename them
- Dynamic transitions help you connect two slides
- Insert a live Excel spreadsheet onto a slide
- How to use your remote to switch to another presentation in PowerPoint 2007 & 2010
- Quick takeaways from Presentation Summit 2011–Day 1, Part 1
- Wishes for a peaceful, happy, healthy & successful New Year!
- PowerPoint idea: Introduce a panel of speakers
- Use transitions and animation to emphasize change or contrast
- Recording available for the training webinar: Animation and Video in PowerPoint—Advanced Techniques
- Create a swinging bell or pendulum in PowerPoint
- Animation for entertainment
- Duplicate animation
- Animate an image from color to black & white
- Quickly change text color line by line
- Highlight important words
- Magnify or enlarge an image
- Create a drop-down menu
- Create a looping introduction
- Use advanced animation to show growth & motion
- Undim bulleted text
- Tutorial on animation and best practices
- Match the end of a motion path animation to the beginning of another
- Make an object disappear behind another object
- Animate a table or chart in PowerPoint 2007 & later
- Animate a bouncing ball
- 3 text animation techniques
- Animate Text on Top of Text
- Animate a chart or table
- Use triggers to create interactive charts
- Synchronize animation with music
- Putting Flash animation in PowerPoint
- Multimedia animation techniques
- Combine animation techniques to create stunning PowerPoint slides
- Create the effect of a line drawing itself
- Create a slide show that really slides!
- Create a pop-up window
- Create a cascading animation effect
- Animate a revolving earth
Backgrounds & color
- Using abstract images to create unique backgrounds for slides and shapes
- Use contrast to make your text and colors pop!
- Create a mood or duotone look in PowerPoint
- 5 principles for easier and faster slide creation
- Working with multi-speaker presentations
- I’m redesigning ellenfinkelstein.com! What does rebranding mean for my presentation design?
- Apply a slide master to a presentation
- Create a quick texture background
- Customize the default theme to instantly get the look you want
- Hide background graphics for design flexibility
- 2 PowerPoint 2013 secrets
- Use a texture as a frame for your slides
- 8 steps to add branding to your presentations
- Photo-editing features in PowerPoint 2010
- Create a textured PowerPoint background that changes colors
- Design a first slide that stands out and matches your brand
- Highlight one part of an image in color
- Creating a slide master–or two–in PowerPoint
- 6 steps to create a quick PowerPoint makeover
- Create a theme in PowerPoint that changes colors
- 10 steps to create a better PowerPoint theme
- Find colors for your PowerPoint color scheme (theme colors) with Adobe kuler
- Choose colors based on desired results
- Animate an image from color to black & white
- Choose fonts and colors for legibility
- Create multi-color gradients in PowerPoint
- Using web page backgrounds in PowerPoint
- Create an instant background from a photo
- Create a simple border
- Copying Colors from a Website
- Backgrounds: Using mid-range colors
Charts, tables & diagrams
- New SmartArt layouts, including numbered lists and Meet the Team options
- Creating beautiful process diagrams with a teardrop shape
- A simple, 4-step guide to beautifully visualize data in your presentations
- Changing the order of items in a chart
- Integrating Live Power BI Dashboards into PowerPoint
- Switch rows and columns in a chart
- Use PowerPoint like a flip chart–draw as you speak
- Create a table from Excel data in PowerPoint
- Customize the colors in your slide master
- Moving the axis labels when a PowerPoint chart/graph has both positive and negative values
- My latest SmartArt faves
- Slide design rules for effective presentations
- Compare options with the Balance SmartArt layout
- Adjust the location of the X (horizontal) chart axis in a PowerPoint chart
- How to display equations and formulas in PowerPoint
- Create a table in PowerPoint
- Shortcut to complex shapes with SmartArt in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010
- How to Create a Chart-Graph in PowerPoint from Excel Data-Part III
- Create a PowerPoint chart/graph with 2 Y-axes and 2 chart types
- Easily create flexible diagrams that look professional
- Insert a live Excel spreadsheet onto a slide
- Create quick, professional diagrams with SmartArt in PowerPoint
- Business concept diagrams: Group 1–Working together, parts of a whole, integrating the parts
- 6 steps to create a quick PowerPoint makeover
- Support your statements
- Push PowerPoint charting options to the limit
- Create a timeline agenda in PresentationZen style
- Animate a chart or table
- Formatting Bar Charts
- Designing chart titles
- Create effective graphs/charts
Design principles
- 3 techniques for putting less text on your slides
- Presenting remotely: Avoid the 8 deadly sins of webinars
- Think BIG to create high-impact presentations
- It’s about the audience
- The flipped presentation: A different way to present and create handouts
- Why branding is essential for your presentations
- Layer images and shapes for stunning slides
- Increase understanding and retention with the Tell ‘n’ ShowSM method
- Using BIG circles on slides to make a bold, modern statement
- 5 principles for easier and faster slide creation
- 10 tips for modern design in 2017
- A neat little psychology trick for quickly laying out messy slides
- 9 tips to design presentations for webinars
- Icons are hot now — how to get, make, and use icons
- I’m redesigning ellenfinkelstein.com! What does rebranding mean for my presentation design?
- Design an e-book or report cover in PowerPoint
- 3 tips to make your slides more persuasive
- Create a tile menu with hyperlinks to slides
- Create handouts for data-heavy decision meetings
- Presentation design trends
- Your presentation deserves the same respect as your website and brochures!
- Do you present with printed slides? What if your slides were the size of your paper?
- Stupidity, lies and coverups = literal Death — by PowerPoint, or not?
- Create a tabbed presentation for longer presentations with lots of topics
- Slide design rules for effective presentations
- How to top or bottom align slide titles
- What’s your design style?
- Free video training: How to Turn Your Organization’s Leaders into Powerful Presenters
- How to convince executives that presenters need presentation skills training
- Death to agenda slides!
- Using PowerPoint for Best Educational Outcomes
- Slides that pop! Using the 3rd dimension on a PowerPoint slide–Part III: Collages and 3D scenes
- A quick way to design better photo slides–the 3-side rule
- Discover 3 reasons most presentations fail and 3 easy ways to fix them
- Quick takeaways from Presentation Summit 2011–Day 1, Part 1
- Presentation: Slide Design for the Artistically Challenged
- Interview with visual language expert Connie Malamed
- How to add design flair with a “belly band”
- Getting a shiny Web 2.0 look in PowerPoint-Part I: Reflections
- 6 steps to create a quick PowerPoint makeover
- Improve your presentations 80% in 20% of your time
- How do you convince your colleagues to present well?
- What makes a successful sales presentation?
- Addendum to “I have seen the worst slide in the world”
- A Quick Lesson in Effective Presentations
- Why do 60% of students find their lectures boring?
- I have seen the worst slide in the world
- Thoughts on why bad presentations don’t go away
- New video lesson on YouTube!
- What I’d like to see in PowerPoint design in 2009
- Put one point on a slide
- Create a fast moving presentation
- How to design more effective slides with the Tell ‘n’ Show(SM) method
- Try design variations
- The importance of design
- Best practices for PowerPoint presentations in Second Life
- Beyond Words
- Simplicity and understatement
- Design guidelines for Web conferences
Hyperlinks
- Easily create a menu slide with the Zoom feature
- Create an interactive menu in PowerPoint Office Mix
- Quickly create a grid of tiled images
- Create a quiz in PowerPoint
- Create a tile menu with hyperlinks to slides
- Link text to an Excel cell to dynamically update data
- Create a tabbed presentation for longer presentations with lots of topics
- Switch to another presentation seamlessly
- How to create a self-running presentation
- Link to a specific PowerPoint 2003, 2007 or 2010 slide from Microsoft Word or Excel
- Create a looping ending for your PowerPoint presentation
- My training webinar: Present interactively-your audience expects it!
- Create a looping introduction
- Using hyperlinks
- Link to other presentations and return to the original presentation
- Hyperlink to a specific slide in another presentation, or specific location in another file
- Create invisible buttons
- Use timing, animation, or sound in a presentation with hyperlinks
- Create a WebQuest in PowerPoint
Images
- New Remove Background options in PowerPoint
- Managing complex backgrounds
- Creating images with AI: The end of stock photo sites?
- Format multiple headshots for consistency
- Using PowerPoint’s cartoon people
- 3 ways to use images
- Use icons to create a list
- 3 techniques for putting less text on your slides
- Using PowerPoint’s new illustrations
- PowerPoint has photos again! And a lot more…
- How to create a logo in PowerPoint
- Think BIG to create high-impact presentations
- It’s about the audience
- Create an infographic in PowerPoint
- Layer images and shapes for stunning slides
- 4 ways to change a picture in PowerPoint without losing formatting
- Create a mood or duotone look in PowerPoint
- Using BIG circles on slides to make a bold, modern statement
- 3 techniques to copy formatting in PowerPoint
- How to insert 3D into PowerPoint
- Create a soft look with semi-transparent images in PowerPoint
- Inserting icons in PowerPoint 365
- Become a master cropper–PowerPoint cropping secrets
- 4 secrets to choose the best images for your slides
- Format quotations to get attention
- Icons are hot now — how to get, make, and use icons
- Create a screenshot and screen recording in PowerPoint
- Design an e-book or report cover in PowerPoint
- Quickly create a grid of tiled images
- Make a collage of photos
- Don’t use placeholders for images, unless…
- Create a vignette effect to make a photo more powerful
- Office Clip Art gallery is going away
- Your presentation deserves the same respect as your website and brochures!
- Create a checklist graphic in PowerPoint
- How to specify the position of an image or object on a PowerPoint slide–precisely
- Create a quick texture background
- Add multiple images to an existing presentation
- How to show paper forms or software screens on a PowerPoint slide
- A complete repertoire of image treatments
- How many uses for PowerPoint can you think of? (my 500th post!)
- Use text as a graphic
- Crop a picture by an exact measurement in PowerPoint
- Using picture treatments to portray diversity or hide identity
- 4 ways to get the right people images
- Use PowerPoint to create buttons for slides or a website
- 2 PowerPoint 2013 secrets
- Anatomy of a custom graphic
- Create training courses with screenshots within PowerPoint
- Illustrate a story on a PowerPoint slide
- Shortcut to complex shapes with SmartArt in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010
- Design for quick changes–because changes always happen
- Create clear, iconic illustrations in PowerPoint with (gasp!) clip art
- Photo-editing features in PowerPoint 2010
- How to format photos that are cut off — like part of an arm
- Slides that pop! Using the 3rd dimension on a PowerPoint slide–Part III: Collages and 3D scenes
- Slides that pop! Using the 3rd dimension on a slide–Part I: Shadows
- Congratulations to the winners of the “stickout” photo contest!
- 6 steps to create cool stickout photos in PowerPoint
- How to resize and crop pictures in PowerPoint
- A quick way to design better photo slides–the 3-side rule
- Finish quickly with selection shortcuts
- Make your communication personal with photos
- Create your own graphics and icons for PowerPoint: Part II–Creating line art from scratch
- Create your own graphics and icons for PowerPoint: Part I–Using clip art
- Free photo-editing tools
- Highlight one part of an image in color
- How to combine images and make them look like they belong together
- Add your own sketch to a slide
- Format photos to look like old-fashioned snapshots
- Create a video from photos in PowerPoint
- How to get a Photoshopped look by fading in an image
- How to create unique picture placeholder shapes
- Stop automatic compression of pictures in PowerPoint 2007
- Remove an image background in PowerPoint
- Add drama with PowerPoint’s shadows
- Support your statements
- Dissolve One Image into Another
- Change a picture in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010
- Animate an image from color to black & white
- Use PowerPoint as a graphics program
- Magnify or enlarge an image
- The Magic of False Backgrounds
- Recolor graphics in PowerPoint 2007
- Cool contour shadows
- 3D and reflection technique
- Emphasize a section of text or an image
- PowerPoint Tips: Turn AutoShapes into Pictures
- Where and how to insert an image
- Resizing Your Presentation
- Recolor bitmap images in PowerPoint 2002 & 2003
- Managing Graphics to Reduce Size
- Inside secrets to making your visuals look professional
- Importing art into the clip gallery
- Find free photos and images for PowerPoint
- Crop around an image in PowerPoint 2003
- Colorize a Photo for a Background
- Reduce the size of your presentation files
Multimedia, music, sound & video
- Create an animated intro for videos in PowerPoint
- 4 steps to create a video from PowerPoint slides
- Create an interactive menu in PowerPoint Office Mix
- Create a screenshot and screen recording in PowerPoint
- Side-by-side speaker video and slide content for a live presentation feel
- Discover PowerPoint Mix for interactive online lessons
- Easily sync lyrics with a music video in PowerPoint
- Sync animation with a video or audio
- Create a video zoom effect from photos in PowerPoint
- Happy New Year — 2014!
- Start a video with a remote
- Invisibly control when a sound plays on a slide
- How to create a self-running presentation
- My sound won’t play! Embed narration or music so you can send the PowerPoint presentation to others
- Resource for free sounds and sound effects
- Secrets for successfully narrating a presentation
- Hi-impact, lo-cost marketing with presentations
- Put a YouTube video in PowerPoint
- Convert PowerPoint to video (SWF – Flash movie format)
- Convert iTunes M4P (and other) sounds to MP3
- Insert video in PowerPoint
- Create a video effect
- Control movies with buttons
- Play music or narration throughout a presentation
- Playing Music Continuously in a Web-Based Presentation
Shapes & text boxes
- Creating beautiful process diagrams with a teardrop shape
- Using abstract images to create unique backgrounds for slides and shapes
- 3 techniques for putting less text on your slides
- Making text stand out with text formatting techniques
- Use contrast to make your text and colors pop!
- How to create a logo in PowerPoint
- Create a mood or duotone look in PowerPoint
- How to animate 3D objects in PowerPoint
- Create beautiful numbered lists in PowerPoint
- 2 ways to save time and effort by setting default shape formats in PowerPoint
- Using BIG circles on slides to make a bold, modern statement
- 3 techniques to copy formatting in PowerPoint
- Inserting icons in PowerPoint 365
- Visualizing concepts-24-hour protection
- Format quotations to get attention
- Create a lightbox or mask effect in PowerPoint to focus attention
- Create a numbered list with shapes
- Use PowerPoint like a flip chart–draw as you speak
- Create a quiz in PowerPoint
- Create a tile menu with hyperlinks to slides
- Link text to an Excel cell to dynamically update data
- Place an open circle around something to emphasize it: Creating open shapes
- Rotate objects precisely
- Create a checklist graphic in PowerPoint
- How to specify the position of an image or object on a PowerPoint slide–precisely
- Create your own graphics with bursts and stars
- Create a quick texture background
- Results of Extreme Shapes contest!
- Customize slide objects to the extreme
- 7 quick fixes to your slides based on my experience with clients
- Create a torn edge effect–with video tutorial
- Slide design rules for effective presentations
- How to top or bottom align slide titles
- Reorder objects in the Selection pane in PowerPoint 2013
- Use PowerPoint to create buttons for slides or a website
- 3 ways to make objects equidistant in PowerPoint
- Space objects equidistant from each other
- Shortcut to complex shapes with SmartArt in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010
- Congratulations to the winners of the summer 3D contest!
- Slides that pop! Using the 3rd dimension on a PowerPoint slide–Part III: Collages and 3D scenes
- Slides that pop! Using the 3rd dimension on a slide–Part II: 3D rotation
- Create professional-looking 3D effects with bevels
- The wonderful Selection pane lets you easily hide objects, select them and even rename them
- Finish quickly with selection shortcuts
- How to create your very own cool shapes with the Custom Shapes tools: Part IV-Combine
- How to create your very own cool shapes with the Custom Shapes tools: Part III-Intersect
- How to create your very own cool shapes with the Custom Shapes tools: Part II-Subtract
- How to create your very own cool shapes with the Custom Shapes tools: Part I-Union
- How to create unique picture placeholder shapes
- Getting a shiny Web 2.0 look in PowerPoint-Part II: Highlights
- How to add design flair with a “belly band”
- Getting a shiny Web 2.0 look in PowerPoint-Part I: Reflections
- Create iconic people in PowerPoint
- PowerPoint idea: Introduce a panel of speakers
- Using the ink pens—and I learn something new about PowerPoint
- Create soft shadows
- Use materials and lighting for interesting fills
- Create text reflections
- PowerPoint Tips: Turn AutoShapes into Pictures
- Create multi-color gradients in PowerPoint
- Use transparency gradients
- Rotation tips
- Layer two fill effects
- Cycle through overlapping objects to select them
- Creating Soft Edges
- Create cutouts
- Create Bézier curves
- Changing the Default for New Objects
- Attach objects exactly
- 3D Effects with Radial Gradients
Slide layout
- Using Microsoft’s Copilot (AI) in PowerPoint
- How do you format your slide titles?
- 3 ways to use images
- Think BIG to create high-impact presentations
- Layer images and shapes for stunning slides
- 4 layouts that always look good-video training
- Using a slide layout template for infinite variations
- Working with multi-speaker presentations
- A neat little psychology trick for quickly laying out messy slides
- Design an e-book or report cover in PowerPoint
- Quickly create a grid of tiled images
- Create a tile menu with hyperlinks to slides
- Do you present with printed slides? What if your slides were the size of your paper?
- Show the current time on your PowerPoint slides
- 7 quick fixes to your slides based on my experience with clients
- 3 ways to make objects equidistant in PowerPoint
- How to create a poster in PowerPoint 2013
- Create consistent slides with layouts
- Presentation: Slide Design for the Artistically Challenged
- Create a product catalog with custom layouts
- Resetting a slide: A quick fix for awful slides
- Improve your slide design by trying layout variations
- Add slide numbers to your slides
- Beyond Words
- Reapply the Slide Layout
- Put objects exactly on top of each other
- Nudging Objects Slightly
- Creating a grid for perfect layout
- Create a custom layout
- Align objects perfectly
- Quickly get rid of bullets
Text & fonts
- How do you format your slide titles?
- Making text stand out with text formatting techniques
- How to create a logo in PowerPoint
- Import text from Word or Notepad
- Getting the line spacing just right
- Embedding fonts in a presentation with non-standard fonts
- Show the current time on your PowerPoint slides
- My latest SmartArt faves
- 7 quick fixes to your slides based on my experience with clients
- Slide design rules for effective presentations
- How to top or bottom align slide titles
- Use text as a graphic
- Collaborate on a PowerPoint file by inserting comments
- How to display equations and formulas in PowerPoint
- Adjust font spacing — both vertical and horizontal
- 3 changes you should make in the Options dialog box of PowerPoint
- Add slide numbers to your slides
- Quickly change text color line by line
- Highlight important words
- Emphasize a section of text or an image
- Choose fonts and colors for legibility
- 3 text animation techniques
- Animate Text on Top of Text
- Set vertical alignment of text
- Fit More Text in a Placeholder or AutoShape
- Controlling Text Shadows
- Choosing the most readable font
Delivery
- What can online course creators learn from other sectors?
- Keeping your webcam off your slides in Zoom
- Presenter View: Your secret presentation tool
- Add a customizable, live web feed with Cameo
- Creating and using a strong call-to-action slide
- Interview with Barry Shore on the Joy of Living
- Interview with Alfred Poor: Better Online Presentations
- Practice your speaking skills with PowerPoint’s Presenter Coach
- Communication skills for online success
- Equipment for Speakers
- Presenting remotely: Avoid the 8 deadly sins of webinars
- The flipped presentation: A different way to present and create handouts
- Transcribe or translate your live talk in PowerPoint with a Star Trek twist
- Create presentation handouts using Notes pages
- Easily create a menu slide with the Zoom feature
- Increase understanding and retention with the Tell ‘n’ ShowSM method
- Beyond storytelling: Create an experience
- 9 tips to design presentations for webinars
- Anticipate the next slide with transitional statements
- Watch my PechaKucha presentation!
- 2 reasons and 5 easy steps to convert a PowerPoint presentation to EXE
- Using a window instead of full screen for Slide Show view
- Single-source publishing with PowerPoint–use PowerPoint for all versions of your training!
- Turn a presentation into a report or e-book
- Use PowerPoint like a flip chart–draw as you speak
- Experiences from the presentation trenches
- Handouts for data-heavy presentations
- How to zoom into a slide and choose another slide in Slide Show view–PowerPoint 2013
- How to present when there’s no time to prepare
- Make your webinars super interactive
- An inspiring speaking story — from disses to raves
- Presentation delivery tips for the greatest impact
- Engage: How to avoid becoming a human tranquilizer by Paul B. Evans
- Create a tabbed presentation for longer presentations with lots of topics
- Public speaking and training via webinars
- Put all benefits on one proposition slide
- Start a video with a remote
- Extend your reach as a speaker or trainer with webinars
- Tips from my first professional Pecha Kucha
- Presenter roles: What role do you play?
- Free video training: How to Turn Your Organization’s Leaders into Powerful Presenters
- How to convince executives that presenters need presentation skills training
- Share presentations online to create instant meetings
- How to store your presentation in the cloud–for embedding, collaboration, or marketing
- Set up your show
- The #1 thing employers want most in a new hire
- Switch to another presentation seamlessly
- Using PowerPoint for Best Educational Outcomes
- How to create a self-running presentation
- Which projector do you recommend?
- The blessed B key
- Pause when you display a new slide
- What you miss when you print slides using the default settings
- Compress a presentation handout
- View your slide show in a smaller window so you can see another presentation or program
- How to promote deep processing and transform attitudes
- Do you give out prizes when you train? Do you sing and dance?
- Which presenter remote do you recommend?
- Create a looping ending for your PowerPoint presentation
- Dynamic transitions help you connect two slides
- Insert a live Excel spreadsheet onto a slide
- How to use your remote to switch to another presentation in PowerPoint 2007 & 2010
- Harness the back channel during your presentations
- Keep your screen alive during presentations to avoid embarrassing hibernation mode
- Cliff Atkinson presents on “How to let go of notes and speak from the heart”
- 3 things you must avoid when delivering a presentation to a live audience
- Why you need to get your presentations on the Internet–and how
- Free PowerPoint alternatives–Microsoft Office Web Apps
- Create a PowerPoint handout from selected slides
- Presentation handouts: Yes or no, what kind, and when?
- Post your PowerPoint presentation as a video to YouTube
- Improve your presentations 80% in 20% of your time
- How to Become an Outstanding Speaker
- Create an electronic PowerPoint handout with a PDF driver
- From PowerPoint to PDF
- Speech tips from Tripp Frohlichstein of MediaMasters, Inc.
- Get your audience’s attention by adding anticipation
- How to become a good speaker
- Garr Reynold’s top ten tips
- What makes a successful sales presentation?
- Yes, you can present without PowerPoint
- View 2 presentations side by side
- A Death by PowerPoint story from Karen Carleton
- 89% of employers want colleges to place more emphasis on communication
- What’s your worst experience watching or delivering a PowerPoint presentation?
- What do you do when you run out of time?
- Review of the Targus wireless remote/laser pointer
- My training webinar: Present interactively-your audience expects it!
- August, 2009 Resource of the Month-SpeakStrong
- For a professional image: Say good-bye to filler words and hello to eye contact
- Put a YouTube video in PowerPoint
- Use presentations for high-impact, low-cost marketing
- Ask the audience questions
- Successfully print presentations
- Create a fast moving presentation
- Create a timeline agenda in PresentationZen style
- Rehearsing with narration
- Turn off pop-ups when presenting
- Start a presentation at a specified time
- Don’t look at the screen!
- 12 qualities of a charismatic speaker
- Should you say “thank you” at the end of a presentation?
- Put a presentation on a CD that runs automatically
- Create a quiz game
- Presentation styles
- Play sound or music by passing mouse over an icon (without clicking)
- Going to the Previous Slide When You Have Text Animation (Builds)
- Black out the screen and other delivery tips
- Create notes as you deliver in PowerPoint 2003
- Creating a Compact List of Notes
- Create a slide list
- Manage the presentation process from conception to rehearsal to handouts
- Best practices for PowerPoint presentations in Second Life
- Let’s have a Distraction Summit!
- Export all presentation text
- Importing a PowerPoint presentation into Flash
- Stay focused with pecha kucha
- Create a looping introduction
- Print in Black & White or Grayscale
- Export the text in a presentation
- Create a background for printed handouts
- Use feedback to complete the communication cycle
- Have a conversation with your audience
- Collect information or feedback
- Display a quarter-size slide show view
- Create a timer
- Life after death by PowerPoint
- Making great PowerPoint handouts in Microsoft Word
- Add taped narration to a presentation
- Add notes in PowerPoint in Slide Show view
- Reduce the size of your presentation files