There is a wonderful opportunity throughout the working world to identify and define the skills needed to create amazing presentations. The Presentation Guild is a global association teaming with passionate professionals dedicated to bringing that clarity to the world. In e183 of The Presentation Podcast Troy...
Are you a presenter, trainer or conference host? Wondering what makes for a great attendee experience? In e184 of The Presentation Podcast, "What People Want to Learn," Troy, Nolan, and I explore what people want to get out of training presentations and conferences. We leave aside non-educational...
Whatever happened to TED? Technology, Entertainment, Design—TED: ideas worth spreading. TED talks provide an amazing platform for presenters. The organization has made quality presentation skills and presentation design a factor to be considered in all presentations. But has the age of the TED talk diminished? Join Troy...
TED talks and quality presenting are synonymous. Troy, Nolan, and I, enjoy a conversation with Jacqueline Farrington, a former TEDx senior speaker coach and author of just-released, and already award-winning book, "Better Presentations. How to Present Like a Pro, Virtually or In Person." Join us (e181) to hear what...
Exploring new waters--the 2023 "Presentation Summit with Rick Altman" is live! Oct 15 - 18 is coming soon, we spend some time with event director Rick Altman to talk about this year's Presentation Summit....
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Maurizio La Cava, the CEO and co-founder of MLC Presentation Design (Milan, Italy) for a presentation design talk. You can drop in on our spirited conversation on YouTube. Thank you, Maurizio -- it was a joy to meet with...
The recently released article in The Atlantic, "The Great PowerPoint Panic of 2003" is the basis for a great conversation on e179 of The Presentation Podcast. Troy Chollar, Nolan Haims, Microsoft PowerPoint MVP, and I discuss how presentation design has evolved, and comment on "PowerPoint- was-going-to-be-the-end-of-civilization-as-we-know-it mentality....
Troy, Nolan and Sandy are joined by Lori Chollar of TLC Creative Services to talk about AI generated images. This episode is all about Adobe Photoshop's newly release generative fill image generator, how we are using it, some of the issues encountered, and lots of...
Troy, Nolan and I continue the conversation about features we feel are needed in PowerPoint. From my LinkedIn post asking everyone what features they feel are missing or needing updates in PowerPoint makes this a conversation directed by you - the listeners. This is Part...
Troy, Nolan and Sandy continue the conversation about features that they feel are needed in PowerPoint. But this conversation is directed by you, the listeners. Compiling the responses to Sandy’s LinkedIn post, Troy, Sandy and Nolan share with everyone the ideas others listed and talk...
The world is all about AI. Microsoft is all about AI integration into everything it offers. Did you know PowerPoint has been integrating AI powered features for several years, like the PowerPoint Designer feature starting in 2016. But Microsoft Copilot is something much bigger. This...
The PowerPoint app available today, has gotten better and better over the years. It is an amazing application with features and uses. BUT that is not to say PowerPoint is perfect – or that there are features that are asked for – or there are...