There are no perfect speakers and no perfect speeches, and the sooner you acknowledge that and cut yourself some slack, the sooner you can set about improving your presentation skills. The problem that many of us have when we think through a presentation we've just given is a tendancy to filter out everything that really worked, and focus in on every little thing that didn't quite come together. But it's...

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Keeping an eye on the details can make a vital difference in the world of PowerPoint design. Certainly it's important to go for high impact images, clear and well designed charts and simple, clutter free slide layouts. But if you focus exclusively on creating a strong effect, to the expense of the finer details, you may well find that they come back to haunt you. In this short article from...

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The shift to being able to edit images and video online is changing the way that we can use the web as visual communicators and presentation professionals. Where until recently the Internet was a great means of content distribution, and interaction around that content, the new breed of web-enabled web presentation tools and services for visual communication bring the authoring process to your browser. The examples I have gathered here...

Everyone makes mistakes. Given a long enough time line you are going to be standing up in front of a sea of faces, and you are going to make a horrible, humiliating mistake and wish that the ground would swallow you up. It's a perk of the job when it comes to giving presentations. Photo credit: Dano Nicholson But while mistakes are an unavoidable part of what you do as...

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If you are looking to purchase high quality PowerPoint presentations or templates over the Internet , there are no shortage of alternatives. Likewise, if you have the design skills and the right connections, it is quite possible to go into business designing and selling presentations to corporate clients. But what if you don't want to go into a full time graphic design job or shell out vast sums of money...

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Visual communicators rejoice, for today we have four great tools and services sure to bring your designs and web presentations to the next level. Now you can quickly resize your images on the fly, straight from your browser, edit them to your heart's content without ever having to open an application on your desktop, create high impact color schemes that correspond to your photos, and put the finishing results together...