Archives for the 'Public Speaking' Category
More Powerpoint rules
I was at one of our Summits today and got to see a bunch of different Powerpoint presentations, some terrific and some less than terrific. Hence, some new rules: If you’re giving a research presentation that has an abstract component, start with a concrete example of the benefit that adopting the abstract method will give [...]
Power Point Rules: Forget “2min/slide”
For years I’ve wondered where the nonsense about spending two minutes per slide during a Powerpoint presentation came from. Finally, I turned to the web. If you run a Google search on the phrase “two minutes per slide” you’ll quickly find yourself on a circa 1997 web page called “Oral Presentation Advice” by Professor Mark [...]
Presenting with Balls (um… not how it sounds)
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve twice had the great privilege of talking about media, new media, marketing and what people do with the culture they consume– first as the opening keynoter at the HTMA in San Diego and then at Dr. James Loper’s Masters in Communications Management Class on American Media Institutions at [...]
