Presentation Skills

Academy Awards come and go, but one thing is a constant: bad acceptance speeches. You may never win an Academy Award, but you may be asked to give an acceptance speech for an accomplishment in your business, your career, your community, or your organization. Sometimes your acceptance speech will be for what you accomplished, or for what your team has accomplished. Will you be ready when it is your time to give an acceptance speech? The following are seven presentation secrets to giving... Read Full Story

   Online PowerPoint presentations are now accessible and sharable with two new free online Web 2.0 products: SlideShare and Zoho Show. The struggle to access PowerPoint type presentations through an Internet browser has been a challenge for many years.  Microsoft, Adobe and many other vendors have attempted to bend their products to be “Internet ready”.  All have failed. Two new Web 2.0 products in the offering aim to change that - SlideShare and Zoho Show. SlideShare is a great service... Read Full Story

PPT To Video Scout is a Windows-only software to convert Powerpoint PPT presentations into AVI or MPEG Video files which you can later burn to a DVD or a VCD. Though PPT To Video Scout is a commercial software, you can get it absolutely free (no strings attached) as part of the "Giveaway of the Day" project. To convert your PPT slides into video, you will need to have a copy of Microsoft Powerpoint installed on your machine since the software can only run from the "Convert To AVI" command... Read Full Story

PPT To Video Scout is a Windows-only software to convert Powerpoint PPT presentations into AVI or MPEG Video files which you can later burn to a DVD or a VCD. Though PPT To Video Scout is a commercial software, you can get it absolutely free (no strings attached) as part of the "Giveaway of the Day" project. To convert your PPT slides into video, you will need to have a copy of Microsoft Powerpoint installed on your machine since the software can only run from the "Convert To AVI" command... Read Full Story

PowerPoint. Is it a crutch or a tool? Some think it's a tool; others think it's a crutch. For good reason.  PowerPoint, in my opinion, is widely misused. My Take PowerPoint is both a tool and a crutch. Below are my six guidelines for creating a PowerPoint to complement a speech. 1. If you're using a quote, do not write out the quote on the screen. Put it on a note card and read it. Put a picture of the person who said it on the screen. 2. Use mostly images that correspond with... Read Full Story