Monitoring your children on the Internet can be difficult just as monitoring your children in everything else they do in life. I’ll be discussing two simple steps you can take to help you ease the burden, time and energy it takes to monitor your children.
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5 ways to reduce PowerPoint overload
From the Gee Whiz blog
Bored by 50-slide presentations that drone on, bullet by bullet, slide by slide? Having a hard time keeping audience interest in your point. Then start practicing these five research-based techniques for reducing PowerPoint overload:
1. Write a clear headline that explains main idea of each slide (“Three reasons we achieved 105% of our goal”).
2. Break up story into digestible bites in slide sorter view.
3. Reduce visual load: move all text offscreen, and narrate.
4. Use visuals instead of words alone.
5. Remove every element that does not support main idea.
Check it out in the pdf “5 ways to reduce PowerPoint overload” by Cliff Atkinson and Richard E. Mayer from sociablemedia.com.
Based on the techniques, from a gargantuan 48-slide sales presentation, I created ONE slide, with a powerful graphic image that resolves to a high-impact image. Proprietary business strategy and other sensible rules prevent me from displaying it here.
E-mail me and ask for the “WhyEHM.ppt” file.
I guarantee you’ll see “wow!”
Behind the magic curtain
Next week Steve Jobs of Apple will grab media attention with another simple-looking stage show. Mike Evangelist tells the insider secrets of his gruelling preparation
From The Guardian
If the chief executive of Cadbury-Schweppes speaks at a conference, or Nike’s boss introduces a new kind of trainer, you might expect to see it covered in specialist magazines, then quickly forgotten.
But on Tuesday a chief executive will stand up and announce something, and within minutes it will be scrutinised across the web and on stockbrokers’ computers. It will be in newspapers. They’ll talk about it for months.
That chief executive is Steve Jobs, and I know why that speech makes an impact. To a casual observer it is just a guy in a black shirt and jeans talking about some new technology products. But it is in fact an incredibly complex and sophisticated blend of sales pitch, product demonstration and corporate cheerleading, with a dash of religious revival thrown in for good measure. It represents weeks of work, precise orchestration and intense pressure for the scores of people who collectively make up the “man behind the curtain”. I know, because I’ve been there, first as part of the preparation team and later on stage with Steve. >>more
How to Get a Standing Ovation
from Guy Kawasaki
When I started public speaking in about 1986, I was deathly afraid of public speaking–for one thing, working for the division run by Steve Jobs was hugely intimidating: How could you possibly compete with Steve? It’s taken me twenty years to get comfortable at it. I hope that many of you are are called upon to give speeches–it’s the closest thing to being a professional athlete that many of us will achieve. The purpose of this blog entry is to help you give great speeches.
Speech Making Success Tip:
One of the most powerful tools in public speaking is to be believable. One of the ways to achieve this is to use open body language. It communicates openness and sincerity.
Tom Peters on Great Presentations
I’m going to add some stuff to my “PE56” list, thanks to your Comments.
But let me begin with something that may be personal: Why I use PowerPoint. You say, “Hey Tom, you’re the guru.” I say that my conclusions are much more credible when I back them up with Great Sources. I say pretty radical stuff. I say “Get radical!” That’s one thing. But then I show a quote from Jack Welch, who, after all, ran a $150 billion company (I didn’t): “You can’t behave in a calm, rational manner; you’ve got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.” Suddenly my radicalism is “certified” by a “real operator.”
Also, I find that people like to get beyond the spoken word, and see a SIMPLE reminder of what I’m saying.
Also, we post all my slide shows so attendees (or anyone else) can go back at their leisure and recall the logic of the presentation and “steal” some Cool Quotes to use in their presentations!
So here are a few things, thanks to you, that I’m going to add to “PE56”:
To Overcome Fear of Public Speaking, You need to Understand the Underlying Causes.
Once you can identify the causes that are underlying your public speaking nerves and fear, you can choose the strategies you need to build your confidence, use the fear and present successfully.
Most people suffer from some fear of public speaking. The survey that identified it as America’s number one fear was accurate then and remains so today. But the causes of that fear can differ from person to person.
One of the most important steps towards overcoming the fear of public speaking is to identify the things in your life that have created the fear and then choose the strategies that relate to those causes and that will conquer the fear and allow you to harness it to enhance your presentations and speeches, not destroy them.
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Public Speaking Tip: Screen Size Approximation Chart
SCREEN SIZE APPROXIMATION CHART
Use this guide when someone asks you how large of ascreen you need.
3-5 people 21 inches diagonal (53.34 cm)
5-9 people 29 inches diagonal (73.66 cm)
10-15 people 37 inches diagonal (93.98 cm)
16-35 people 60 inches diagonal (152.4 cm)
36-50 people 72 inches diagonal (182.88 cm)
51-140 people 120 inches diagonal (304.8 cm)
141-220 people 150 inches diagonal (381.0 cm)
221-390 people 200 inches diagonal (508.0 cm)
391+ people 300 inches diagonal (762.0 cm)
Source: http://www.bhphotovideo.com
Prevent distractions during your presentation
by Cliff Atkinson, Sociable Media
The physical environment in which you make your presentation is just as important as the story you tell. The quality of your hard work is affected if the room is physically uncomfortable, no electrical outlet is within reach of the projector, or your microphone doesn’t work. You’ll need to prevent distractions that will diminish the impact of your presentation.