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January 6, 2010
Cloud computing is changing how presentations are made and shared. While tools for Webcasting presentations have been around for a decade, new Web-based services are ...
December 15, 2009
Remember the good old days when a speaker gave a presentation and the audience members sat quietly, keeping their thoughts to themselves? Well, the good old days are ...
December 1, 2009
At Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., a 1% increase in repeat business translates into millions of dollars in revenue. How Disney (DIS) communicates its values to ...
November 17, 2009
When Barnes & Noble (BKS) announced its new electronic book device—the nook—on Oct. 20, I missed the press conference and the press release, but the book ...
November 3, 2009
Software-as-a-service pioneer and salesforce.com (CRM) co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff credits storytelling as one of the primary reasons for his company's rapid ...
October 27, 2009
Stock analysts love charts. Excel is their tool of choice. When used to accurately predict the future price movements of stocks or the economy, charts are beneficial. ...
October 20, 2009
The brain does not pay attention to boring things. Once you understand this fundamental principle of human learning and retention and apply it, your presentations ...
October 6, 2009
The Apple music event of Sept. 9, 2009, marked the return of the world's greatest corporate storyteller. For more than three decades, Apple (AAPL) co-founder and CEO ...
September 29, 2009
Think you know PowerPoint? Think again. You haven't seen the real power of a presentation until you've taken a look at the winners of SlideShare's annual "World's Best...
September 22, 2009
On a recent trip to New York City, I was walking down Broadway just as thousands of people were pouring out of the theaters. They were smiling, laughing, and talking ...
September 8, 2009
Several years ago I trained Home Depot (HD) employees who were designated television spokespeople in their local cities. The company knew that the key to garnering ...
August 25, 2009
Giving truly great presentations requires skill, work, and practice. Giving catastrophic presentations is far easier. So if you want to take the easy way out and look ...
August 18, 2009
New York real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran is a featured judge on Mark Burnett's new ABC business reality show, Shark Tank. You might be familiar with Corcoran's ...
August 11, 2009
Layoffs, scandals, and scams are taking their toll on employees' trust and customers' trust of businesses large and small. But with every presentation, business ...
August 4, 2009
Last month the New York Times ran a front-page story on the health-care debate. The first two sentences read: "What's in it for me? On the subject of health-care ...
July 14, 2009
CNN's Larry King is the consummate interviewer because he listens more than he talks, asks smart questions, and comes across as genuinely interested in people. ...
July 7, 2009
Since 2004, angel investor and Chapman University entrepreneurship professor Richard Sudek has been conducting a series of classroom experiments on the effectiveness ...
June 30, 2009
During a business trip in Reno, Mario Moretti Polegato took a walk in the Nevada desert. His feet began to hurt in his rubber-soled shoes, so he took out a pocket ...
June 23, 2009
Over the last few weeks I've been working with a division of a Fortune 500 company on a $200,000 presentation. That's not a typo. Part of the reason the presentation ...
June 16, 2009
When selling, the fastest way to turn off a potential customer is to talk for too long. I once asked New York real estate queen Barbara Corcoran, founder of the ...
June 9, 2009
In March, Zurich Financial Services (ZURN) CEO James Schiro embarked on a worldwide trip to reassure employees that the company was healthy, despite all the bad news ...
May 19, 2009
The coffee wars are brewing. Boiling over, actually. If you've read a newspaper or watched TV in the last few months, you know that Starbucks (SBUX) and McDonald's ...
May 12, 2009
"Happiness in a box." That's how one customer described the feeling of receiving her shoe order from online retailer Zappos.com. Much has been written about how Zappos...
May 4, 2009
I recently received an e-mail that had me riveted from start to finish. It contained a true story about two men aboard US Airways flight 1549—the one that ...
April 28, 2009
In the age of YouTube (GOOG), texting, and tweeting, your audience's attention span is shrinking. It's becoming harder to keep your listeners engaged for more than 90 ...
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