If you want to make a New Year’s Resolution that’s easy to stick to and will make a direct impact, try teaching yourself some new software skills. Here are ten tools that will have an immediate effect on your day-to-day production, from Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint:
1. Search Folders
As described in previous posts, Search Folders [...]
Your typical PowerPoint presentation to your typical audience typically makes everyone wish they were somewhere else, doing something else. The next time you have to give a presentation, see if you can apply one of these three ideas to make everyone’s experience more productive
Everyone who changes from Office 2003 to Office 2007 has a learning curve. During the weeks and months after you transition, you’ll find yourself wondering: where is that tool I used to use all the time?
I purchased slide:ology recently to help me in presenting information to my classes. After reading through it, though, I found a number of things that help with more than just presentation design.
One of my favorite bloggers posted something back in June I think is really valuable – a technical speaker doing everything right. I’ve included the post, and the video of the presenter.
In an earlier post, I described the idea of Signal vs. Noise as a metaphor for your Inbox; today, I’d like to use it to address presentation design. By focusing as much as possible on the signal (your message), and cutting away the noise (everything else), we can make truly effective, attractive, interesting presentations.
