Your Data Wants a Makeover

Simplicity does not necessarily mean skimping out on the meat of your presentation. When handled correctly, complex scenarios and data can still be included while being transformed into something that is easily comprehensible to the average audience member.
No, this does not mean packing seemingly endless charts, tables, and graphs onto every slide. What it does [...]

Topic: Delivery, Design, Strategy, Video
Tags: airside, crisis of credit, data, jonathan jarvis, power gap, simple, simplify

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5 Ways to Make PowerPoint Sing! (And Dance!)

When if comes to software, bells and whistles are great! If you don’t know how to use them. Working in PowerPoint every day, we’ve learned a few tricks. So when Microsoft asked us to use latest version of PowerPoint to create a cinematic presentation, we couldn’t wait to show off our skills.
(Our excitement, Exhibit A: [...]

Topic: Design, Video
Tags: Five Rules, PowerPoint 2010, Video

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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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Visualizing the Sun Food Agenda with Michael Pollan

Duarte had the distinct pleasure of working with bestselling author Michael Pollan to turn his ideas about sustainability and food systems into a visual presentation for the PopTech conference last month. Plan to eat your lunch in front of the computer today so you can enjoy his presentation:

It’s rare that we’ll work with such a [...]

Topic: Delivery, Video
Tags: food, michael pollan, poptech, S.T.A.R. Moment, story, Video

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Links to TED Global Talks That are Creating Waves

TED sent a note today about the TEDGlobal talks that are “creating waves” so it was fun to see all three of the talks we helped with on the list. Here are some tidbits about them:
Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon, is an amazing photographer. We put her beautiful images into Keynote. To keep a gallery-like effect to [...]

Topic: Design, Event, Video
Tags: daniel pink, Design, paul romer, taryn simon, TED, templates

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