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Last Updated: February 6th 2010
01/31/2012 09:59 PM
10 Tips for Influencing Others: by Claudyne Wilder
Do you want to be more influential in your meetings and presentations? Consider doing these behaviors so that you are on top of the content as well as your presenting style. Get approval of the content: Talk to people who know the audience, and find out the interests of the audience. Talk to at least two people just to be sure you are getting accurate advice.
12/20/2011 09:13 PM
Presentation Assistant Pro: The Indezine Review
Presentation Assistant Pro is the professional edition of Presentation Assistant -- both are on-screen presentation tools that work like an assistant when you are delivering a presentation, or doing a training session. In this review, we are looking at the Pro version of Presentation Assistant. Presentation Assistant Pro provides various tools that equip you to make your audience attentive -- some of these tools such as zoom can enlarge portions of the screen. Other tools such as spotlight, curtain, screen digital clock, arrow point, magnification, screen capture etc. offer significant assistance in explaining processes or steps to an audience.
11/01/2011 10:22 PM
Are You Prepared?: Guest Post by Claudyne Wilder
You tell a colleague that you are nervous about the presentation you are giving tomorrow and she responds, "Don't worry -- you'll do fine." What I would tell you is that you can feel prepared and (somewhat) relaxed if you have practiced the talk out loud with at least one person who is like a typical audience member. Also, did you practice using the technology. For example, if you plan to use a remote mouse, then you should rehearse using that mouse. Read more in this guest post by Claudyne Wilder.
08/11/2011 09:58 PM
Pause Power -- A Verbal Tool Like No Other: Guest Post by Kevin Lerner
The Pause is a verbal tool like no other. Suspense. Drama. Intrigue. Power. All promoted by the Pause. Discover how these small segments of silence can translate to large admiration and appreciation of audiences. As Mark Twain said, "The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause." Read more in this guest column by Kevin Lerner.
05/30/2011 09:36 PM
On Speaking Like A Pro: Guest Post by Sandra Schrift
Successful speakers do not do all the right things all the time. They often take risks and risk bombing. But all top speakers take daily action, to move towards their goals with many adjustments.
02/01/2011 01:05 AM
How Not To Freak When You Speak
This is a guest blog post by Sandra Schrift, president/owner of CoachSchrift and Associates, a San Diego based consulting, training and coaching firm. Since 1996, Sandra has been coaching speakers who want to become highly paid professional speakers as well as executives and business professionals who want to develop persuasive presentations. In this post, Sandra provides tips to retain your composure while speaking in front of an audience.
01/23/2011 11:22 PM
Presentation Yoga: Conversation with Bess Gallanis
Bess Gallanis is the founder of Speaking with Power and Persuasion, an executive communications consulting firm based in Chicago. For more than 25 years, public and private company CEOs, senior executives, portfolio managers and financial advisors have sought out Bess to help them develop their leadership voice and to make an impact through skillful communications. She prepares clients for high stakes presentations, media interviews and sensitive conversations. Bess draws from the universal wisdom of yoga and insight meditation as a model for Presentation Yoga, which emphasizes leadership from within, personal authenticity and storytelling. In this conversation, Bess discusses the concepts of Presentation Yoga.
01/20/2011 02:29 AM
Presentation Coach: Conversation with Sandra Schrift
Sandra Schrift is the president/owner of CoachSchrift and Associates, a San Diego based consulting, training and coaching firm. Since 1996, Sandra has been coaching speakers who want to become highly paid professional speakers as well as executives and business professionals who want to develop persuasive presentations. In this conversation, Sandra talks about her experiences in being a presentation coach.
10/06/2010 02:39 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Multi-Slides: Conversation with Duncan Peberdy
With too many years in the AV industry behind them, Duncan Peberdy and his business partner Jane Hammersley set up their own consultancy company in 2008 – Space 2 Inspire – to advise corporations on meeting room technology and the meeting process itself. Quickly establishing themselves as meeting experts, Prentice Hall commissioned Duncan and Jane to write "Brilliant Meetings" for their business series, which was published in 2009. In 2009 the Multi-Slides plug-in for PowerPoint was developed, and provides users with all the advantages of multiple display, all from a single computer running a single PowerPoint slide show.
09/09/2010 02:45 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: miniFreeze: Conversation with Greg Passmore
Greg Passmore is a former professional musician who toured North and Latin America before transferring skills acquired in the studio and on stage to the corporate audiovisual market. After years of improvising and adapting on the job, he established Kryoco, Inc., to manufacture low cost solutions to high end problems. In this conversation, Greg talks about his new device called the miniFreeze and how it allows you to do some amazing stuff while presenting.