….well not as a search engine of course, but in terms of Google Docs. I’ve written about it briefly before but a friend of my has just pointed me at zoho.com. So far I’ve barely […]
following on from my brief article about ducks and golden ducks in presentations, there’s more common-sense help from Seth Godin in his (just about as brief!) article on the three laws of great graphs. I […]
One of the big things my teachers were always going on about at school, when the exams came around was this – when it comes to getting decent marks make sure, make very, very sure […]
As pretty much any writing will tell you, the hardest part of writing is being faced with the proverbial blank sheet of paper. The potential for creating something is tremendous – and so is the […]
Well it’s hardly come as a surprise to hear that several papers (both sides of the Atlantic) are reporting that, as part of the American fight for the White House, Sen. John McCain is working […]
There’s an interesting blog post here that looks at how speakers need (or should) have vision above and beyond themselves and what they want to say. http://businesspresentations.blogspot.com/2008/01/speak-to-lead.html My take on it is pretty similar, though […]
Every now and then I talk about graphs in presentations so I’m going to spend some time talking about Ducks and Golden Ducks. No, not terms for cricket batsmen who fail to score but types […]
I’m writing this on my way back from a day’s training at Imperial College, in London. I spent some time working with PhD students looking with them at how they could make better oral conference […]
As a (strong) Introvert (in the sense that I get my emotional energy from inside my head), I’ve often been asked about the fact that I “do presentations for a living”. With a confused (or […]
I did a short interview recently for someone who ran a Toastmasters in Portugal and one of his questions got me to thinking about why people are afraid of public speaking: it’s not as if […]
I’ve spent some time, recently, listening to a speaker who’d been described to me as “brilliant†and “inspirationalâ€. I went, therefore, with a certain expectation and got exactly what I expected. J John’s certainly charismatic […]
I’m doing five hours of lectures today. That’s a long, long bash in one day and I’m anxious about the three hours in the afternoon, particularly, because the room is stepped (very steeply indeed, if […]
You probably won’t have noticed, but there’s been a big change in the back-office workings of this blog. Up until now, we’ve accepted the NOFOLLOW default of our software (WordPress): however, to be fair to […]