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How to prevent and recover from mind blanks

May 7, 2009

Are you concerned that you might suffer a mind blank during a presentation? The fear of a mind blank can be a large part of the fear of public speaking for many people. It happened to Sally Field in her Emmy Acceptance speech in 2007:

How can you avoid this happening to you?
How to reduce the [...]

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8 Presentation Tips for beating Audience Boredom

March 4, 2009

I asked you, my readers, to tell me about the challenges you have with presenting on “boring” topics. Ann Hemplemann wrote to me:
Oh, Olivia, you are ringing my bell on this one! I’m an environmental engineer and educator, and my topics range from dull to confusing. I give presentations designed to help plant operations people [...]

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Do you have to give boring presentations?

February 8, 2009

My next post is going to be on “How to make a boring presentation interesting”.
I’d like to make the post as relevant as possible to the problems you face giving presentations. So if you have to give a presentation that you think could be more interesting, I’d love to know:

the topic of the presentation
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PowerPoint Design in 2009: Most promising new technology

January 24, 2009

This is the fourth post in the series guiding you through the 40 contributions to “PowerPoint Design in 2009? The first three posts are:
PowerPoint Design in 2009: Does Design Matter?
PowerPoint Design in 2009: Develop visual thinking skills
PowerPoint Design in 2009: Six most recommended tips
Here are the links to all the contributions to the PowerPoint Design [...]

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PowerPoint Design in 2009: Develop visual thinking skills

January 16, 2009

This is the second post in the series guiding you through the 40 contributions to “PowerPoint Design in 2009″. In the first post I explored the issue “Does Design Matter?”.
And here are the links to the PowerPoint Design in 2009 resources:

A list of all the blogposts with a one or two sentence summary of each [...]

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3 reasons to use less stock photos in your presentations

January 9, 2009

Here’s what I would like to see in PowerPoint slide design in 2009 – less stock photos of people.
I’m guilty too. Last year I loved istockphoto. It saved me so much time. I loved recommending it to our course participants and showing them how quickly they could find the photo they wanted.
My New Year’s [...]

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The five word presentation challenge

June 12, 2008

If you were only allowed five words in your presentation – could you do it?
That was the challenge facing winners at the 2008 Webby Film and Video Awards on Tuesday night. A five word limit on their acceptance speech.
This five word limit forced people to be focused, simple and concrete. Just like a longer presentation should be. [...]