How to Spread Your Talk

If you have an important idea to spread, you’ll probably want it to spread beyond only the folks sitting in the room. Using social media tools can help give you and your idea further reach. Since it takes hours to prepare for a big presentation, it makes sense to get as much visibility for it [...]

Topic: Book Reviews, Strategy, Technology
Tags: autotweet, marketing, PowerPoint, SAP, social media, twitter, webinar

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Review: Muppets and Tweets

During a recent vacation to visit family in Pennsylvania, my husband and I made a side-trip to New York City to see the Jim Henson Company’s production of Stuffed and Unstrung. (Think: live improv comedy + Henson puppets + adults only) The show was hilarious, and I definitely recommend it, but one aspect of the [...]

Topic: Technology
Tags: review, social media, stuffed and unstrung, stuffedunstrung, twitter, visible tweets

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Storytelling through Social Media

Have you ever thought about what you’re doing when you update your Facebook page, change your LinkedIn profile, or tweet? You’re telling a story. With simple phrases and pictures, you’re presenting to the world your opinion on world events, or your favorite restaurant.
With the explosion of social media and mobile devices, the impact of [...]

Topic: Event, Message, Strategy, Technology
Tags: ad:tech, facebook, linkedin, social media, storytelling, twitter

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CNBC Calls Google Presenter a Johnson. Was that fair?

How important is the launch of a new product? Important enough to plan, rehearse, and script something comprehensible?
On CNBC, the newscasters compare today’s Google Nexus One launch with the iPhone launch Steve Jobs hosted just two short years ago. Here’s the clip, scroll forward to 3:44.

Steve Jobs definitely plans and rehearses more than this guy [...]

Topic: Delivery, Event, Strategy, Technology, Video
Tags: carmine gallo, cnbc, Delivery, google, nexus, steve jobs

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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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