As you become accustomed to public speaking and presenting you will grow more comfortable and able to be more natural and let "the real you" come out. But if you are still quite nervous about the idea of presenting in...
More and more large companies are adopting a more image rich way of conveying information. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos illustrated this in the release of the new Kindle Fire.
Steve Jobs has something to teach small to midsize ad agencies about pitching for new business. Every new business pitch should do three things: inform, educate and entertain. BusinessWeek.com ...
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I am so fortunate to be able to do what I love (teach presentation skills) in both my professional and volunteer lives. Recently I taught a class on presenting yourself and crafting your elevator speech to a group of immigrant...
Genetics Otago (the group behind the Southern Genes blog at sciblogs) runs a bi-weekly meeting for postgrads to catch up, find out about each others work and perhaps even learn something about life as a budding academic.
The story behind the video… One Friday afternoon back in March we had an enquiry from a global company who wanted to get an important message about compliance out to their staff. They were thinking about using a short video
RCGP chairwoman Dr Clare Gerada has called for ‘actuaries, risk-adjusters and share-holders‘ to be thrown out of the NHS, in her keynote speech to the RCGP conference in Liverpool.
The other day I read a story about a police officer who responded to a domestic violence call after having completed a course of ‘humour training’. As the officer walked to the front door, she...
Amazon:Video in Qualitative Research (Introducing Qualitative Methods series) Chapter 6 of this book is devoted to the use of video clips in presentations