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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Advanced Stickynoting

If you have followed this blog or read slide:ology, you know that we are huge fans of sticky notes.  We train people how to build effective presentations by writing their main points on sticky notes and then moving them around until they find a compelling flow for their message. Sticky notes are small, easily movable and readily recyclable. [...]

Topic: Message
Tags: PowerPoint, presentation, seminar, sticky note, storytelling, workshop

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slide:ology Wins Axiom Business Book Award Gold Medal

Nancy just received her bright and shiny gold medal with the words “Success Through Knowledge.” I couldn’t think of a more appropriate phrase to recognize the passion for sharing knowledge that slide:ology represents.  We’ve debated internally about sharing this kind of news with our community because to be quite frank it sometimes feels a little [...]

Topic: Question
Tags: awards, communication, Nancy Duarte, poll, presentation

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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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