PowerPoint Tip: Break Your Addiction to Ineffective PowerPoint Presentations One Presentation at a Time - Part 1

The twelve step program created by Alcoholics Anonymous has been used as a model for many people to break their addiction to alcohol, drugs ...

PowerPoint Slide Makeover #53: Using a full screen photo to enhance a story

Just a quick note to let you know that a new Slide Makeover Video Podcast based on the ideas in "The Visual Slide Revolution" is a...

"Show your work" is not needed in presentations

At a recent workshop, one of the participants raised the point that the reason so many people put all the data on their slides is that in sc...

PowerPoint Tip: Being too emotionally invested in your slides leads to less effective presentations

I’ve spent some time thinking about the different reasons why presenters don’t create presentations that are as effective as they could be. ...

Converting PowerPoint 2003 graphs to look good in PowerPoint 2007

About two weeks ago I switched from PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007 when I got a new laptop. I’ve now delivered a few presentations usin...

PowerPoint Slide Makeover #52: Layering the discussion of detailed data

Just a quick note to let you know that a new Slide Makeover Video Podcast based on the ideas in "The Visual Slide Revolution" is a...

Is it honesty or is it clarity that makes this commercial so popular?

Two respected presentation professionals, Jon Thomas and Garr Reynolds , have recently tweeted about how they think this commercial is a g...