PPT - Powerful Presentation Techniques

PPT - Powerful Presentation Techniques Service Offerings

ConnectingDots, Principal Consultant Paul Gibler offers your organization a range of services to improve presentation development, delivery or overall management.  Among the services that are offered are the following:

• Professional Development - presentation and/or PowerPoint skills coaching or training
• Presentation Strategy Assessment & Development - evaluation of presentation templates, slide databases, slide preparation tools, photo libraries and other slide assets.
• Presentation Delivery Assessment - evaluation of individual presenter delivery
• Presentation Guideline Development - creation or enhancement of guidelines for internal and external presenters
• Presentation Skills Keynotes - online or live presentations on best practices in presentation skills or the effective use of PowerPoint.

These services can be customized to meet your organization's needs.  Please review the service offerings description (Download PPT-PowerfulPresentationTechniquesDescriptionRev2.pdf) and contact Paul Gibler for further information.

An offer from Mimeo - on demand printing

I was at PPTLive 07 last week and happened to sit next to the VP of Marketing, Jeff Grill  and National Account Manager, Chris Ilardi from Mimeo, the largest on demand printer.  They were one of the sponsors of the Conference and received kudos from Rick Altman, the Conference organizer, for their service and attention to detail in printing the Conference books for a number of years. 

Mimeo offers next day delivery of printed documents that can be ordered over the Internet.  Their printing facility is in Memphis near the FedEx hub.  They are set up with Kodak Nexpress printers for 4 color work and Docutechs for black & white work.  They explained and demonstrated the service as one where you simply upload your documents, add them to your library and order the components including binding you want for a given job.  You have a chance to proof your job with a WYSIWYG interface and can ship copies to as many locations as you like.  The online interface will show you the order size, printing costs and delivery fees in the shopping cart.

Special Offer for New Buyers
Mimeo has allowed me to extend an offer to new customers of $100 off your first print job.  To take advantage of this offer, you can visit Mimeo and enter the Promotion Code 123print or else call them at 1 866 389 0480 and use the Promotion Code TryUsOut.

PowerPoint Abuse Discussed Again...

Jeffrey Phillips at Thinking Faster has a post "The State of Corporate Communications" where he decries the continued use of PowerPoint presentations where presenters read their slides with little grasp of how to frame their messages and to communicate them effectively.  He suggests that presenters need to return to the art of storytelling, a charge that Clff Atkinson with his Beyond Bullet Points has also tried to lead the charge on. 

Intranet Resource Listing

PowerPoint is by nature a communications tool.   We hear about the thousands to millions of daily PowerPoint presentations that take place in the corporate world.  Many of them continue to be less then effective in achieving their objectives or disseminating their desired message(s). 

As I think about PPT in the workplace, I often wonder about the archives and knowledge management systems that are being used to house these "valuable" communications assets.  This curiosity and my own prior corporate experience running an Intranet site, has led me down the path of finding resouces related to Intranets.  One resoruce listing that I've come across that you might find useful is a listing of Intranet related blogs.  For those of you with internal communications responsibilities, I encourage you to explore these resources.