Due to my involvement with TEDxPhoenix, I was given the opportunity to attend TEDActive 2010 and witness a great talk by Sebastian Wernicke entitled Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks). Not only was his delivery spot on, but his slides were very well designed and had a custom ...

There are two things that send me over the edge when it comes to slideshow design, the first is generic circa 1995 slideshow templates and the second is unusable slide real estate. There's nothing I can do to eliminate generic slideshow templates other than to tell you to avoid ...

Microsoft is king when it comes to over-engineering applications, and this everything but the kitchen sink philosophy has resulted in some interesting uses for PowerPoint. As you already know PowerPoint can be used to create Twitter backgrounds and bore unsuspecting coworkers into a coma, but did you know that it can ...

If your slide shows have lost their mojo, then this blog post is for you! Unfortunately, we fall victim to bad slide shows on a regular basis, and I've concluded that this lack of inspiration leads us to create dull slide shows of our own. Of course, my ...

Did you know that the average adult has a 20 minute attention span? That's something to consider before embarking on a 30 minute long PowerPoint presentation. Yet what if your presentation requires 30 minutes or more, then what do you do? Thankfully you're in luck because prolonging ...

Michael Wesch is an assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, and his "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing US" video has received more than 1.7 million views on YouTube since it was first added on January 31st, 2007. Professor Wesch runs the Digital Ethnography blog ...

There's a video by Karl Fisch entitled "Did You Know?" that has been making the rounds since August of 2006. The presentation was originally intended to get the faculty of Arapahoe High School thinking about new and different ways to prepare their students for the world they will be ...

I apologize if the title is a bit misleading; this post is about the actual presentation that was given by Steve Jobs, and not the iPhone itself... if that makes any sense? Would I be brash in proclaiming that Steve Jobs is to presentations what Micheal Jordan is to the game ...