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
PowerPoint
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
Two Ways to Hide with PowerPoint
[NOTE: Big thanks to my Managing the Unmanageable co-author, executive coach and generational guru Anne Loehr, for bringing this article to my attention.] In a great article on PowerPoint abuse, Fortune Magazine’s Meg Husted quotes two experts on how people use PowerPoint to hide from speechmaking’s toughest tasks: facing your audience, and nailing down exactly Read More
Public Speaking Signposts: Verbal, Visual, and in Occupy Wall Street Signs
There are two kinds of public speaking signposts. Both of them keep your listeners informed about where you’re going — and where you want to take them. Public Speaking Signposts Can Be Verbal One of the most effective ways to sound more professional as a public speaker is to alert your audience whenever you transition Read More
The Swiss Anti-PowerPoint Party
Get a grip, Switzerland! I know I shouldn’t criticize — after all, the U.S. has people running for President on an anti-science platform — but puh-leeze. I’m talking about the news, forwarded by my cousin Adam Lewkowitz, that Switzerland has a candidate running on an Anti-PowerPoint Platform. (Adam suggested that, if this guy wins, I Read More