PowerPoint Presentation Skills: PowerPoint’s 20th Birthday

PowerPoint Presentation Skills: PowerPoint’s 20th Birthday

Jul. 22, 2007 by

As PowerPoint reaches its 20th birthday, Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal reflects on our love/hate relationship with “one of the most elegant, most influential and most groaned-about pieces of software in the history of computers”: While PowerPoint has

Public Speaking Tips: What’s a Good Oscar Speech?

Public Speaking Tips: What’s a Good Oscar Speech?

Feb. 25, 2007 by

I will be glued to the TV on Oscar night because I’m fascinated by the power of the acceptance speeches.  They’re a balancing act between emotion and concision; between sincerity and craft.  Too much emotion and the speech can be