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02/06/2012 08:37 PM
Many of my clients, friends, and readers (including you) are super busy these days! And in between these busy days, you need to create slides, practice them, and deliver them to an audience. Very often, your work does not end there -- you then need to remove any extra meta-information from these presentation slides and mail it to clients and colleagues. Of course, you may have to do this so often for the multiple presentations you need to deliver -- and presenting may be just one of the tasks you do in your job role!
02/02/2012 02:00 AM
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01/30/2012 11:32 PM
What is it that attracts an audience within any presentation? Are they the slides? Or is it the speaker? Or is there something else that is the sum of all parts: the audience themselves, the speaker, and the slides? We may all have been speakers at one occasion or another but we have also been part of an audience -- and do all successful presentations have a quality about them that we remember long after the presenation was over? If you think carefully about all successful presentations that linger in your thoughts, then there has to be a common thread that strings through all of them -- and that has to be the charisma of the speaker!
01/24/2012 12:19 AM
Consider the typical bucketload of slides that most business presentations contain. What if the presenter retrieved the few important slides from that bucketload and concentrated on this important content -- and then he or she practiced these slides, researched possible questions and answers, and made as many improvements as possible all the while. I think this approach would work! So that's the thought of this week -- do ponder and share your feedback with me.
01/16/2012 10:08 PM
The power of simplicity pervades everywhere -- and is the key to conceptualizing, creating, and delivering any type of presentation. The need to weed out the unrequired, the aim to keep things as uncomplicated as we can, and to clearly understand what the audience wants -- these are all objectives that any presenter will associate with. And the best way to attain these objectives is with simplicity.
01/09/2012 09:20 PM
We all live in a world where we have to multitask, even if we do not want to. Email continues to flow into the inbox, and as soon as you have finished taking care of your bloated inbox, there's a fresh load for you to take care of. I really don't mean to say that I don't like email, but once in a while it would be nice to not get any email the entire day -- but if that happened, I am sure I would be contacting the support folks at my email provider to ensure that everything is running just fine at their end! Now that is funny -- and sometimes, it can be so cool to laugh at yourself.
01/02/2012 10:08 PM
By the time you receive this issue of the newsletter in your inbox, it would have been already 2012, a new year with 366 days! For some reason, we love leap years that have one extra day. At Indezine, we are still pondering about what we will do on that extra day of the year, that happens to be a Wednesday. About the whole of next year, we have two focus areas -- one of them is iPad presenting -- and with Microsoft announcing that there will be a version of PowerPoint running on the iPad, there's so much to look forward to in that direction! The other focus area for us this year is going to be charting -- we have already started working on a series of charting articles and tutorials for you!
12/06/2011 12:08 AM
Depending upon where in the world you live, winter can be the best or worst time of the year. Managing winter in sub-zero temperatures can still be enjoyable but long spells of cold weather can make one gloomy. On the other hand, for us here in tropical India winter signifies the absence of hot afternoons -- but we never get to see any snow -- in fact there are many people here who have never seen snow all their life although we have the highest snow covered mountains in the world in this country! Winter is also a festive time -- reminding everyone of Christmas and the New Year -- in the following days, we plan to release plenty of content around both these events. We have plenty of new content in this issue -- topping the list of new content is an article on how you can get a free or cheaper copy of PowerPoint (and the rest of Office) with Microsoft's blessings.
11/28/2011 11:08 PM
This mailer comes to all of you after Thanksgiving, and while this day is not celebrated all over the world, it does have relevance to the way we all approach our days and lives, wherever in the world we may be. Just in case you missed our Thanksgiving gift to all of you last week, here's your last chance to get our Thanksgiving PowerPoint Kit -- there are no hidden offers, no upgrades or anything else -- this is 100% free! And we haven't stepped back from creating new tutorials as well -- let's just request you to scroll down to find the content. We also start a new series of posts on the hot topic of iPad Presenting.
11/15/2011 12:19 AM
Offers, Kits, Conversations, and Tutorials – with so much stuff, you may wonder if we plan to include too much content in this issue? In that case you are right -- this is indeed a jumbo issue of this newsletter with so much information that we seriously considered holding back some of the content -- in the end, we decided to announce all of this stuff because we have more stuff coming up for you next week!