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Duarte's Six Tips for Remote Presenting
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Great tips on presenting remotely. Referring to a lot of different tools.

Dahle Communication: Speak Well. Present Well. Do Well.
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A blog that discusses all things related to presentations, communication, brand and brand management and public speaking.

Google Docs suffers privacy glitch
Source: CNET.com

Google discovered a privacy glitch that inappropriately shared access to a small fraction of word-processing and presentation documents stored on the company's online Google Docs service.

Business Articles: How to Become an Authentic Speaker - Harvard Business Review
Source: harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu

HBR | In Brief of Nick Morgan article that emphasizes "authenticity" as the key to effective body language.

PowerPoint to iPod and Video Announced
Source: Market Wire

authorSTREAM launches tool to let users share PowerPoint presentations on YouTube, blogs and Web sites for free. New service also lets users view slide shows on Apple iPod devices.

Preparing for an Interview Presentation

There are, I've learned, different types of job presentations. For instance, in the academic world, a job talk, as *they* call it, can be very different than an interview presentation given to a Wall Street firm.

Deliver a Presentation like Steve Jobs
Source: Business Week

When Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs kicked off this year's Macworld Conference & Expo, he once again raised the bar on presentation skills. While most presenters simply convey information, Jobs also inspires.

How often do you encounter Death by PowerPoint?
Source: slideshare.net

Slideshare is an excellent Web 2.0 resource for those who may not have come across it. And this gem is something that is worthy of sharing on Newsvine.

And now we present...
Source: Official Google Docs Blog

Earlier this year, we told you that in addition to documents and spreadsheets, we'd soon be adding support for presentations as well. We know you've been waiting, and today we're excited to invite you to try out presentations for yourself at

Gmail Can Preview PowerPoint Files, Too
Source: Google Operating System

Gmail rolled out to everyone a new feature that lets you preview PowerPoint attachments. "Now you can open PowerPoint attachments as slideshows, without having to download anything. Just click View as slideshow next to the .ppt attachment you want to preview.

Google Blog Announces Presentation
Source: googleblog.blogspot.com

Well, we tried to keep it a secret as long as we could, but to be honest, we've been dying to tell you about the bun we've got in the oven.

Interactive Web Presentations - presentation and quiz
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Teachers and Students are excited about this - 1) create eye candy presentation in the browser 2) add Quiz at the end and 3) paste it into the blog with easy copy-paste This is just a simple example of Quiz. Web Presentations: www.spresent.com

Dissecting Steve Jobs' reality distortion field

As of this instant, Google News is showing 2,152 stories today about the iPhone. Any way you slice it, that is serious buzz about a product that isn't even shipping yet.

The Annals of Show & Tell

Long before I ever roasted a friend at a wedding or gave a boardroom presentation to a client, my initiation into public speaking came from Show & Tell.

Video Service for Entrepreneurs Launched
Source: press.xtvworld.com

VentureCast, a private network of entrepreneurs and investors who connect online, today announced a new premium service which allows members to upload their video presentations or demonstrations of their products and inventions for other members to view.

Sharing PowerPoints Online - Like YouTube
Source: TechCrunch

SlideShare is a new service launching this morning that lets users upload PowerPoint or Open Office presentationi files and share them online through a You Tube-like interface.

Top 10 Best Presentations - The Reader's Choice
Source: knowhr.com

Fantastic follow-up to KnowHR's original Top 10 Best Presentations Ever. This includes suggestions for readers. If you want to reach you employees, to motivate them, to change their behavior. Read these posts. The whole blog is great.

Fantastic presentations and provocative ideas at TEDTalks

Regular readers know we are huge fans of great presentations. Yesterday, someone pointed me to the BMW-sponsored videos of the Technology, Education, and Design (TED) conference from February 2006.

How to Wow 'Em Like Steve Jobs
Source: Business Week

The Apple CEO is well known for his electrifying presentations. Here are five tips to make your next talk just as mesmerizing -- or close.

Apple Events - The Media - And the Hype Burnout Distortion

So here we are sitting in our chairs, thinking about the keynote that has just gone by, pondering to ourselves, "Well, that was less then spectacular." I to found myself wondering what was going to be the big media backlash from this event, since there was no really spectacular it

Xplane This
Source: B L A N K | Design's Heart and Soul

After spending 14 years in the federal government (the Department of Defense to be exact), I've suffered through thousands of poorly designed Power Point presentations (several of them my own).

David Heinemeier Hansson = Steve Jobs, Adrian Holovaty = Bill Gates

For those of you who dont know, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) is a member of 37signals and founder of Ruby On Rails (rubyonrails.org) a web framework built with Ruby. Adrian Holovaty is a python coder and founder of Django (djangoproject.com) a web framework written in python.

The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
Source: How to Change the World

Venture Capitalist Guy Kawasaki explains his 10/20/30 rule of PP presentations. "A PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points." Sounds about right to me. I'd also add that the better the story, the more captivating, the better your audience will respond.

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