Speaking about Presenting

Welcome

Welcome to this blog - my aim is to make a difference to the success of your presentations. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Olivia

I’m Olivia Mitchell and the aim of this blog is to help you with your next presentation. Here’s what you’ll find:

- Helpful articles to help you with every aspect of your next presentation
- Reviews of books and blogs on presentations and public speaking
- Analysis of great speeches and presentations.

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Latest post in Content category

How to create a “new” presentation from pre-existing slides

In a perfect world, every new presentation would be prepared from scratch, tailored exactly to the specific audience. But in reality, you sometimes have to cobble together a “new... [Read more]

Latest post in PowerPoint category

Powerpoint custom animation experiment - check out the animation for yourself

Yesterday, I reported on the results of an experiment into the impact of Powerpoint custom animation on learning. I’ve now been given permission by the authors (Dr Stephen... [Read more]

Latest post in Nervousness category

Why do you have a fear of public speaking?

From my own personal experience, from working with thousands of people face to face, and from asking my blog readers what they find hardest about presenting, I know that the fear... [Read more]

Latest post in Delivery category

How Obama could eliminate his ums (and so could you)

A number of high-profile presentation bloggers and authors have commented recently on Barack Obama’s speaking style - when he doesn’t have his teleprompter in front... [Read more]

Latest post in Audience category

Why most attempts at audience participation fail and what to do about it

Yesterday I had a skype conversation with Twitter follower Todd (@TJList) on how to include audience participation in a presentation. He’s presenting on getting through the... [Read more]