Not a tip, not a comment… just an urging to any of you who read this, to watch this (online) presentation on The Girl Effect. If it works for you, act on it. :)
Well, it’s big news at the moment: as we head into elections in the UK, Gordon Brown PM, was caught saying what he ‘really thought’ about someone he’d just been speaking to – thinking he […]
Let’s take a quote from the children’s classic Alice In Wonderland…. :) Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cat: That depends a good deal on where […]
Scattered around the web are lots of places suggesting you can/should use the b or w keys to turn you screen black or white when you’re presenting, at times when you want your audience to […]
Rant mode on…. What is it about the (free) powerpoint templates that makes them so bad? Do (probably otherwise good) designers sit there and think to themselves “I’m going to give this one away, so […]
As a hobby, I write short stories for children. My kids love them, and so do my friends and relatives kids. I’m not suggesting that makes me the next JKRowling but it’s a nice thing […]
I’ve travelled a lot by train recently. Inevitably on these journeys I end up over-hearing other people on their phones. Sometimes this is because they shout so loudly down them that I’m not convinced the […]
It’s good advice about many things, including presentations. I actually heard it while at the gym, on a cross-trainer with the earphones plugged into some morning TV… and the advice was actually about sex – […]
One of the recurring responses I get from people who work with me about making better presentations is that they don’t have the necessary time to design their presentations in anything other than the quick-and-dirty […]
Last month was a big month for people giving presentations. Steve Jobs launches the iPad, for example and ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair gives evidence about the war with Iraq. To be honest, Mr Jobs had […]
Sorry to all who’ve tried to read this blog over the last few days. Some joker thought it would be funny to attack our ISP and consequently they shut down all the websites they host […]
Okay, we’ve all seen lists like this before but we all ignore them. Why? Because we don’t want to believe that the things on them are sensible, in terms of our time; perhaps we don’t […]
So then, today, David Cameron delivered a speech to his party conference without notes. Isn’t it sad that this fact it ranked pretty highly on the list of ‘important things to report’ about this speech? […]