Double Rainbow

In our workshops we often show what great stories might look like had they been presented as PowerPoint presentations—usually to demonstrate how the typical business presentation can suck the life out of a powerful story.
We wondered what the PowerPoint version of the recent Double Rainbow web video would look like.  Here is what we thought [...]

Topic: Delivery, Design, Video
Tags: Delivery, double rainbow, duarte, humor, inspiration, PowerPoint, presentation, rainbow, seminar, story, storytelling, Video, workshop

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Great Moments in Presentation History: The Architect and the Egg

In the early 1400s, Florence, Italy was a hotbed of artistic competition. There were cathedrals to be built, giant baptistery doors to be sculpted, and lots of artists wanting to get in on the action.  Up-and-coming sculptor and architect, Filippo Brunelleschi, was one of those artists.  He had spent much of his life studying ancient [...]

Topic: Delivery, Design, Message
Tags: communication, Delivery, Design, inspiration, presentation, S.T.A.R. Moment

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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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Insightful Book on Better Speaking

I love the book “Great Speeches for Better Speaking” by Michael E. Eidenmuller, Ph.D. He also happens the guy who has lovingly put together American Rhetoric http://www.americanrhetoric.com for us all to enjoy—I virtually live on that site.
Eidenmuller has spent his life devoted to collecting and analyzing speeches and he comes across with a humble authority [...]

Topic: Book Reviews, Diary
Tags: book review, Delivery, eidenbuller, history, speaking, style

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Interacting with Slides

Nancy Duarte’s slide:ology is five months old and still, deservedly, going strong. Long may it wave.
Although Nancy and I have worked together for many years, I still keep going back to slide:ology for her wonderful creative ideas. I’m particularly taken with the structure of her Chapter 11, “Interacting with Slides.” One of the basic rules [...]

Topic: Delivery
Tags: communication, Delivery, presentation, speaking

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