Whilst I am a fan of the intelligent and sparing use of PowerPoint and other presentation tools  I am always on the lookout for great examples of presentations which use props to bring their messages to life.

I recently came across this short 10 minute video on TED and I commend it to you.  Hans Rosling is an inspiring and creative presenter and I love how he uses a simple and readily available prop to help his audience understand some mind [...]

Ikea replaces Powerpoint! is a post from: Inter-Activ Presenting and Influencing

Seminars are a powerful business building strategy when done right. They are a great way to strengthen relationships with existing clients and showcase your expertise to new ones.

If done well you can also create an environment where existing happy customers “sell” your services to prospective customers naturally and unobtrusively.

Recently I was privileged to attend such an event run by one of my clients, a large accountancy firm. I had been helping one of the partners put together [...]

The secrets of successful seminars is a post from: Inter-Activ Presenting and Influencing

I recently had an inquiry from a reader regarding the embedding of my avoiding death by PowerPoint video. This got me thinking. I quite often use video clips within a presentation for a number of reasons.

Is there a place for video in your presentation? is a post from: Inter-Activ Presenting and Influencing

After giving a talk last night in which I used a lot of images and very little text, one of the participants emailed me with the following question:

“Dear Gavin, I attended you very helpful presentation at the Basingstoke Country Park Hotel yesterday.  There is a 13th tip that I would find helpful.  When I put photos into my presentations the file size grows massively and it becomes difficult to manage.  I have real difficulties e-mailing presentations with lots of photos in [...]

Compressing PowerPoint files is a post from: Inter-Activ Presenting and Influencing

Today I had a response to my 7 minute video on preventing death by Powerpoint.      The poster, a student teacher asked the following question:

As a future teacher I will be using PowerPoint (e.g. for teaching grammar). As a topic for a course it could be useful for many people in my field of education (English) to learn how to link a powerpoint to a written text (e.g. poetry; if you want to link visual images to support your [...]

Powerpoint and teaching English? is a post from: Inter-Activ Presenting and Influencing

My recent post about a bullet point heavy Web 2.0 presentation on slideshare tickled one of you to write in and say that, although they agreed with me as to how dull and wordy the slides were, they wondered why the presentation was getting lots of hits.

Well I think you have to remember that a stand alone presentation is a very different animal from a presenter lead one.    In a live presentation, most of the content should be communicated verbally [...]

Powerpoint design – to stand alone or not to stand alone! is a post from: Inter-Activ Presenting and Influencing

Recently I have been looking at a couple of free on-line alternatives to Powerpoint for producing attractive and effective visual aids to support a presentation.   There are now a whole host  and how many will survive  only time will tell.  Thankfully  this morning I found a great post that gives you links to 13 great looking alternatives.

So far I have only really played with Sliderocket and I have to say I really like it.   If you have tried any of [...]

Alternatives to powerpoint for visual aids is a post from: Inter-Activ Presenting and Influencing

Have you ever had the need to jump to a live website whilst in the middle of a Powerpoint presentation?   It is possible by inserting a hyperling to the site you want, within a slide or image.   The problem is that doing so results in you having to come out of Powerpoint and into your web browser and then you have to close the web browser to return to Powerpoint.

There is however a much easier and neater way.   Checkout the [...]

Combining PowerPoint and live web access is a post from: Inter-Activ Presenting and Influencing

This video clip serves four purposes for students of presentation and public speaking skills:

Enjoy

Watch this presentation and put your “big ears” on is a post from: Inter-Activ Presenting and Influencing

Watch this presentation and put your “big ears” on is a post from: Inter-Activ Presenting and Influencing