Nancy Duarte interviews author Alex Osterwalder

Listen in as Nancy chats with Alex Osterwalder about his latest book, Business Model Generation. Alex offers insight on how to create and manage successful business models, and explains how his visual approach allows him to illustrate complex concepts clearly and beautifully.

Topic: Book Reviews, Business, Interview, Strategy, Video
Tags: Alex Osterwalder, Business Model Generation, create value, successful business, synergy, visual thinking

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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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