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I recently attended a IMC-Arizona meeting where Robert Lane provided an amazing overview of a new way to use PowerPoint – that can absolutely revolutionize the way you look at presenting your ideas.

Using a series of hyperlinks, he recommends putting all your intellectual property into a series of powerpoint slideshows, and then allowing specific navigation strategies to let you go where you need to go.  …

I love TED – and here’s the good news: my husband is not jealous!  You see, TED is not a man; TED is an annual uberconference started in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach (which just finished) and Palm Springs each …

Glee Season 1 Episode 11 - Hairography at its best!

I’ve been having a Glee marathon – Season One with four DVDs.  One right after another.  Ended last night with Episode 11 entitled “Hairography”.  I won’t bore you with all the detail, but the kids are doing a number from the musical “Hair” – complete with wigs and hair swooshes.  The idea is …

Or so says Peggy Noonan in a Wall Street Journal article this weekend.

Contending that “the speech as a vehicle of sustained political argument was killed by television and radio.  Rhetroic was reduced to the TV producer’s 10-second soundbit, the correspondent’s eight-second insert, ” she asserts that the Internet is restoring rhetoric as a powerful force to connect with the American public.

Why?  Because anyone can go online and …

While doing a radio interview with Paula Morand on VoiceAmerica about my new book, Boring to Bravo, Paula asked me about the Five Sins.  She was referring to the Five Sins of Teamwork, taken from my book, Team Basics!  It took me a moment to wrap my head around the idea that these same five sins apply just as …

A Cartoon from Cartoon Resource

Back from the National Speakers Association UnConference in Atlanta at the brand new Loews Hotel.  Amazing conference, great vibe and fabulous food.  What more could you ask for?

Met with one the exhibiters, Nancy Terrell at Cartoon Resource and thought I would pass along her list of do’s and don’ts when using cartoons:

Cartoons and humorous illustrations can …

As we close the “Just Say No to Powerpoint Week”, did you succumb to the siren call of Powerpoint?  And… if you just had to grab the remote, did you tell the story around the Powerpoint flashing on the screen?  It’s all about the story – whether you are sharing a daring-do or a dry data dump.  People can read your PowerPoint.  What they can’t read is your story – your interpretation of the facts, …

The latest issue of Fast Company proclaimed that February 7th is the beginning of “Say No to PowerPoint Week.”  What if all the PowerPointers in corporateland decided to embargo PowerPoint for an entire week?  What would happen then?

I  believe  people would have to get more creative in their presentations.  Try a little Prezi anyone?.  Others would rely heavily on their handouts (which, in the spirit of the embargo would have to …

Check out this interview with Brett Clay as we discuss the keys to improving Teams in the workplace.

Featuring Kristin Arnold January 17, 2011 … Kristin Arnold joins Jim Blasingame to discuss what to do about the fact that 21st century customers are …