As we all communicate online more and more, I see some people nervous about “doing it right.”
While you should try for clear sound, well-lit video and a clean shirt, you don’t necessarily have to set your home office up like the evening news. I’ve been coalescing around the idea that there is a continuum of communications and a lot of gray areas even within the same software platform. And it’s okay to slide along this continuum and ramp up your effort accordingly:
Episode #99, Being a Remote Presenter (with Ken Molay) is up!
We’ve got a rather timely conversation in this edition of the podcast as we talk to online meeting and webinar expert, Ken Molay of Webinar Success.
As communications so quickly and completely moved online in recent weeks, everyone is scrambling to “do it right.” Ken, Troy, Sandy and I discuss best practices for slide design, hardware, audience management and connecting with our audiences across screens.
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Episode #93, Investing in Our Presentation Design Business is up!
Troy, Sandy and I kick the new year off with a discussion on just where we put our money to invest in our presentation businesses—everything from what’s physically in our offices to software and subscriptions.
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Episode #92, Our Presentation Year in Review 2019 is up!
Troy, Sandy and I run down the best and worst of 2019 in the world of presentation and talk about our favorite books, add-ins, projects and events.
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Episode #87, When Scientists Present (Conversation w/ Mike Morrison) is up.
Troy, Sandy and I welcome Mike Morrison, someone who has been making some waves in the world of scientific presentation with his proposals for better and differently designed science posters.
We have a wide ranging talk about how scientists present, how they can present better and why graphic design might be the key to curing cancer—well, kind of. But you’ll have to listen to hear more about that.
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Episode #84, Presentation Professional Certifications are Here! (with Echo Swinford and Glenna Shaw) is up.
Last time we talked about the brand new Presentation Guild Professional Certification with some of the beta testers. Today we talk to Echo Swinford and Glenna Shaw from the Presentation Guild on how it all came to be and what it’s really all about.
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Episode #83, We Took The Presentation Professional Certification – and Survived! is up.
The Presentation Guild will soon launch their Professional Certification, and a few hearty souls have already beta tested the test. Join Richard Goring of Brightcarbon, Tara Sheffield of SlideRabbit, Lori Chollar of TLC Creative Services, and Troy Chollar of TLC Creative Services as they discuss the process of the test and certification.
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Episode #80, Should You Use Canva for Presentations? is up.
Troy, Sandy and I get our hands dirty playing with Canva and creating a sample presentation. Is the online software ready for primetime when it comes to presentation or is it still best left as a social media graphics creator? Tune in to find out our thoughts…
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Episode #79, Writing for Presentation with our guest, Mort Milder, is up!
Troy, Sandy and I welcome an old friend and colleague of mine, and we talk all about what a professional writer can bring to a presentation.
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When you need to include a news headline or an article in your presentation, very often we turn to the jagged newspaper tear style.
Here’s a tutorial on how to create and work with these newspaper tears all within PowerPoint—no Photoshop necessary.
