Author: Danielle
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What most people get wrong about storytelling in presentations
Storytelling has, as many good things do, become a buzzword. Companies, researchers, and business professionals are all trying to get their message out, and storytelling promises a way to do so. The problem is that most people go about storytelling the wrong way—especially in presentations. They’re trying to tell their story and push it onto…
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Step-by-Step Guide to PowerPoint Slide Master
How to Create a PowerPoint Template Using Slide Master If you create presentations regularly, having a consistent, professional-looking template can save you a lot of time. Instead of manually copying and pasting your logo, footer, and formatting onto every slide, you can use Slide Master in PowerPoint to apply these elements automatically. Here’s a simple…
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How to Use Presenter Mode
Presenter view in PowerPoint enhances presentations by allowing speakers to see their notes while audiences view slides, preventing distractions. It includes tools like a timer, a laser pointer, and the ability to jump between slides. Familiarizing oneself with its features and practicing beforehand can significantly improve presentation quality.
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Which slide software should I use?
Pros and Cons of Popular Presentation Tools: Google Slides vs. PowerPoint vs. Canva Creating a professional presentation is already hard enough. You need to think about your goals, your audience, your content, your slides… UGH! Slides! What tool do you use? You don’t want your slides to look like… those slides. You know the ones.…
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There’s One Simple Thing That Can Make Your Presentations, Meetings, and Slides Better.
People often ask how to make presentations more engaging, slides more professional, and meetings more productive. Countless books full of advice have been written to address each of these concerns, but none of those suggestions matter if you don’t have one thing: time. The biggest mistake a presenter or meeting facilitator can do is waste…
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Presenting Better Virtually
In our current virtual world, many of us are on back-to-back Zoom calls and are experiencing extreme Zoom fatigue. Pre-Covid, you would have walked from one meeting room to the next when you had back-to-back meetings. Now, you switch rooms with a click of the mouse, giving you no off-screen time. To counter this, schedule your…
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Reworking The World Health Organization’s Infographics
These myth busters are what some people actually believe. Unfortunately, if these infographics aren’t being read, they’re not fighting misinformation.
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Domestic Violence Increases with Quarantining
For those lucky enough to not know what it’s like to feel unsafe in your own home, the stay-at-home order might feel like a burden or make you feel a bit cagey, but for women and men living with abusers it could mean life or death. It’s been known and reported that domestic violence increases…
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Living with Mental Illness in the Age of Coronavirus
Spending way too much time on Twitter looking at the novel Coronavirus updates, I felt overwhelmed and a bit disheartened with most of the information. There was little information available about the virus itself, and when there’s little reliable information people tend to catastrophize. The average person doesn’t read peer reviewed articles. They don’t even…