Steve Ballmer Could Make More Money if He Presented Well

I’m connecting some pretty broad dots here but even though he’s a billionaire, Reuters reported that Steve Ballmer made $100,000 dollars less last year than the previous one.
Interestingly, each of the next few Fridays, Distinction Services will be posting the results of their annual executive survey of the impact of presentations on an executive’s career. [...]

Topic: Business, Delivery, Strategy
Tags: launch, speech, steve ballmer, windows 7

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Five Predictions for 2010

Last year was our first year for making predictions: http://blog.duarte.com/2009/01/five-predictions-for-presentations-in-2009/. I’m late to the party again this year, but I feel pretty excited about what 2010 will bring.
In the year 2010…
1. Presentations and social media will blur.
Audience and presenters will have 2-way communication. It won’t just be about the audience twittering to the backchannel.
2. There’ll [...]

Topic: Business, Diary
Tags: 2010, new year, predictions

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Alt-MBA: Interview with Nancy Duarte

Last year around this time, Seth Godin told everyone not to go to business school. He encouraged everyone to forgo the two-year commitment (and exorbitant fees) and apply to spend six months as an intern in his Alternative MBA Program, learning from him and gaining real-life experience instead.
Unfortunately, he couldn’t accept everyone. That’s how [...]

Topic: Business, Design, Interview
Tags: Alt-MBA, Paul Pettengill, Seth Godin

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The Microsoft Office 2010 Public Beta Is Available, and We’re in It!

Let’s arrange a meet up.  How about inside PowerPoint?
Yep, it’s true.  Microsoft wanted those who use PowerPoint to have on-hand access to world-class presentation training within their software (yay!) and asked us if we would mind sharing some of our tips in the next release of their presentation software, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.

We have had to [...]

Topic: Business, Design, Strategy, Technology, Tutorial
Tags: beta, duarte, microsoft, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2010, presentation, Technology, training, Tutorial

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(Free!) Recording of slide:ology Webcast

Nancy recently hosted a free webcast for Safari Books Online.
In case you missed it, or you want to watch it again, the recording is up, and available for viewing!

Featuring: Nancy Duarte
Recording Date: Thursday, Octber 8, 2009
Recording Time: 10:00am PDT/1:00pm EDT
Duration: 60 min
Description: Presentation software requires professionals to think visually on an almost daily basis. But [...]

Topic: Business, Design, Event
Tags: o'reilly, safari books online, slide:ology, webinar

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