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How to Engage Your Audience with “Choose Your Own Adventure” Presentations

May 11th, 2021 / Presentations

Ready for an advanced presentation technique? Want to make sure your audience is engaged? No, those 10-minute Q&As at the end of a presentation don’t count as adequate engagement. Let’s notch up our engagement! In this blog post, you’ll learn about the “Choose Your Own Adventure” method for engaging our audiences during presentations. You’ll see a brief demo of the Choose Your Own Adventure method, a behind-the-scenes tour of my slides and a discussion of the caveats so you can decide when to use this method.

How to Organize Your PowerPoint Slides by Adding Sections

Apr 27th, 2021 / Data Visualization

Want to organize your PowerPoint slides a little better? There’s a behind-the-scenes trick that I love using in my own presentations: Sections! In this blog post and video tutorial, I’ll give you a demo of what sections are, how to add them, how I use them to hide topics and how I use them to re-order topics.

How to Transform Your Slideshow’s Bullet Points into Images

Jul 24th, 2018 / Data Visualization, Presentations

A few weeks ago, I showed you how to transform allllllllll of your presentation’s information into just a few main chunks. You can visually chunk information by creating divider slides and by using consistent colors and icons. This post focuses on body slides. In particular, I’ll provide a few examples of how you can transform a list of bullet points into visuals.

How to Visually Structure Your Presentation Around Key Points

Jun 26th, 2018 / Presentations

There’s nothing worse than presentations that drone on without a clear message. You know the feeling: You’re sitting in the audience at a conference. The speaker goes on and on. And on. And on. In this post, I’m going to share tips for visually structuring your presentation around a few key points.

Six Reasons You Need Good Visuals in Your Presentations

Mar 6th, 2018 / Data Visualization, Presentations

Guest blogger Echo Rivera shares six reasons you need good visuals in your presentations. And if you’re questioning if you should use visuals or not, the answer is yes!

The Webinar Command Center: Give Better Webinars by Organizing Your Physical Space

Apr 18th, 2014 / Data Visualization

Dataviz is great, but only goes so far if you can’t show it well during a live presentation or webinar. Here are some tips on giving better webinars by organization your physical space.

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