Storyboarding your presentation

Storyboarding your presentation

Feb. 1, 2011 by

I recently came across Lillipip, a company that creates animated videos about your product, service, or concept.  Check them out. They have a simple storyboarding template of four blank squares.  In the first, you draw or paste a picture of

Counting the words that count in high stakes presentations

Counting the words that count in high stakes presentations

Jan. 25, 2011 by

Harvard and Google got married (NY Times article, Fri Dec 17) and have given birth to a database containing all the words in all the books published between 1500 and 2008 in English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian. You—yes

Presenters should avoid this opening phrase

Presenters should avoid this opening phrase

Jan. 5, 2011 by

Many presenters begin their talks like this: “I’d like to take this opportunity to talk a little bit about…” Don’t do this.  First of all, what you would like to do at that particular moment is of considerably less interest