I love my Mac, and when I need help with it, I call IvanExpert — a New York tech firm that specializes in home and small business users, and makes house calls! So I was thrilled when IvanExpert co-owners Ivan Drucker and Caroline Green asked me to help them with a presentation they were making at Read More
Tech: PowerPoint, Skype, eMail, Phone Calls, Letters, and Social Media
Public Speaking Tip 63: Keep Your PowerPoint Short, Sweet, and Simple
Yeah, yeah, PowerPoint sucks. This has become a kind of business meme in the last few years, but come on, folks: Why hate on PowerPoint just because people use it badly. (And by “PowerPoint,” I mean Keynote and Prezi, too.) PowerPoint is just a tool. I mean, would you hate on a hammer because you saw somebody drive a Read More
Public Speaking on Skype: The Good Enough Technology
My first experience of speaking to an audience via Skype was a live broadcast with BNET hosts Priya David Clemens and Lindsey Blakeley about Anne Loehr’s and my book, Managing the Unmanageable: How to Motivate Even the Most Unruly Employee. Our conversation about how to manage Slackers illustrates how rustic Skype’s audio and video capabilities are Read More
Public Speaking Tip 24: Write an Email that Gets Read
Public speaking can take lots of different forms — and today, those include what you share on social media, and even the humble email message. How many emails do you receive each day? 50? 100? 200? Those numbers aren’t unusual — and everyone you write to is struggling with that same deluge of (mostly irrelevant) Read More
If You Want to Get Called Back, Leave a Clear Phone Message
Ah, the humble phone message. Thanks to texting, voice mail is becoming less common. But until it disappears altogether, it’s to your advantage to know how to leave clear messages. In fact, a phone message is sort of like a thank you note: You can earn big respect by leaving a good one… and lose points Read More