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« Previous EntriesSpeaking Strategies: 5 Tips to Power Up Your Presentation
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012Quite often when you are listening to a speaker, teacher or seminar leader, you are thinking to yourself that this person is either a really good presenter or a boring one. For some reasons you are not totally sure of, you have put that person in your mind in one of these two classifications. . [...]
How to Use Emotion in Presentations
Thursday, April 19th, 2012The definition of emotion is a rather dubious one: “an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced.” In short, emotion is how we feel, whether that is anger, fear, sadness, happiness, anxiety, guilt, shame or jealousy. Emotion is complicated, and sometimes given a bad rap. The word [...]
“Death by PowerPoint” Survey Results
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012Via www.sliderocket.com
Bovee & Thill’s Social Media and Electronic Communication Workshop on Facebook
Friday, March 30th, 2012Learn about electronic communication and social media quickly and easily. Plus, read the wall for the latest articles, videos, podcasts, and PowerPoints. The changes wrought by electronic communication and social media need to be integrated throughout your course. This workshop will show you the way social media are changing the communication process, compositional modes, relationships [...]
15 Visual Communication Blogs to Inspire Great Presentations
Thursday, March 15th, 2012. . . Visual communications, especially presentations, are an opportunity to distill complex information into digestible pieces. Here’s a collection of visual communication blogs to inspire your next great presentation. Via www.sliderocket.com
Top 10 Tips for Stepping Up Your Presentations
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012This isn’t about making better slides…this is about making better presenters. Via www.slideshare.net
PowerPoint Blog: Make Sharing Easy–Turn Your Presentation into a Video
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012You want to share your presentation with colleagues in other locations — by publishing it on the Web, or sending it via email or on disc. But you're concerned that what they see won't look the way you want it to. Relax! You can keep your worries at bay and ensure that your slide presentation [...]
What to Do With Your Hands When Speaking
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012The most frequently asked question of presentation coaches is "What do I do with my hands?" I have cautioned against choreography; I've seen far too many presenters attempt to illustrate their narrative with specific gestures and wind up tying themselves into pretzel knots. Via blogs.hbr.org
5 Things Audiences Hate about Presentations
Monday, February 27th, 2012Top 5 of the most common mistakes made by speakers. Via www.slideshare.net
The Most Powerful Strategies When Beginning a Presentation
Friday, February 24th, 2012Over the recent years, I have read dozens of excellent books in which their authors offer advice on how to make effective presentations in one form of another (e.g. in-person, teleconferencing, electronically recorded). None offers more and better advice than does As We Speak: How to Make Your Point and Have It Stick, co-authored by [...]
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