Author Archives: Steve
An effective website
If you feel your website is less effective than it should be, then you can start the turn around process in just 3 minutes! First, the 2-question test 1) do visitors stay for more than a few seconds? 2) what … Continue reading
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Twitter squatting and how to prevent it by getting in first
Completely off topic for this blog, but something you should do even if, like me, you are certain you will never bother with twittering on Twitter. Read this article on Twitter squatting and get your name (if available) some related … Continue reading
Opazity: The emotional impact
Do you use Opazity just to tease your audiences with things to be revealed? That was my starting point for creating the blurred image effect. But, of course, for movie directors, soft-focus (dissolve) transitions from one scene to another, such … Continue reading
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Hillary Clinton’s PowerPoint slides redesigned
Rick Altman, presentation designer and organiser of the annual PowerPoint Live conference has inspected a PowerPoint ‘deck’ produced by Hillary Clinton’s team and not just found it wanting but has gone as far as redesigning it. Whatever your view of … Continue reading
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Opazity review in Indezine
Many thanks to Geetesh Bajaj, PowerPoint MVP, for his review of Opazity in his Indezine blog. He starts it with the sentence: The new versions of PowerPoint seem to have everything apart from the kitchen sink – but yet, it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Geetesh Bajaj, Indezine, Opazity, powerpoint, review
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Help an audience to remember you
Opazity is a great help in getting audiences involved in your presentation, and therefore more likely to remember you. Here are some other audience involvement tips and, by ‘involve’ I mean getting them to take a physical action, not just … Continue reading
Don’t fumble your presentation start-ups
I’m sure you have seen presenters between presentations fumbling around in Explorer or within PowerPoint itself to find their presentation after the last speaker. Don’t let it happen to you! Apart from looking unprofessional it adds to the pressure of … Continue reading
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