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Presentation Production and Management
Every Slide Counts
How much is a post-it note worth? The answer might be less than half a penny if you buy a…
Imagine 22,000 people asking, “Now where did I leave that USB stick?”
If you regularly use USB sticks to backup or transport presentation files, I’m guessing you have asked yourself this question…
What’s on the menu? Expanding your PowerPoint palate
Who doesn’t love going to an old school roadside American diner? A tiny jukebox mounted in every turquoise vinyl booth,…
Break Through PowerPoint Production Roadblocks
Staying competitive in almost any business or industry requires finding the most efficient way to get from the beginning of…
vCheck: No More Stale Slides
The primary purpose of any slide library is to provide a single, central storage location so users always have access…
So Many Slides: An Indezine Conversation with Robert Befus
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Geetesh Bajaj recently interviewed SlideSource.com’s Bob Befus. Their conversation was posted earlier today on Indezine, Geetesh’s highly…
3 Signs Your Presentations Are Out of Control
Many of the difficulties that occur when using PowerPoint can be traced back to the way it has so completely infiltrated almost every aspect of…
Presentation Skills
Bump starts work until they don’t: The danger of using workarounds
Finding a quick, easy workaround for a problem can get you out of a jam. Just be sure to go…
Go ahead, I dare you…
Why do rehearsals almost always tend to assume that everything will go perfectly from a technical perspective? Conscientious speakers exhaustively…
The mustard must be last: Why details and habit matter
My first real job was at a fast food restaurant. I still remember being surprised about how picky they were…
I wish you hadn’t said that…
Here are some examples of what you might call “unintentional foreshadowing”: We don’t need to tape down that cable. No…
Death by PowerPoint may be common, meetings killed by office supplies, not so much
I now suspect that this story is actually apocryphal but the person who related it to me very early in my career…
Presentations as Listeners Like Them
At DIA’s 2019 Global Annual Meeting, SlideSource’s Bob Befus, along with Frank Carillo, CEO of ECG Healthcare, gave a session…
Ten Presentation-Related Websites You Should Be Visiting
Okay, if you’re going to be online, at least spend your time on sites that can offer more than Aunt Millie’s…
Presentation and Slide Design
Quick tip: Making crooked lines straight
One of the more widely known PowerPoint tricks is to hold down the shift key while drawing a line make it…
Are you washing dishes with that PowerPoint deck?
Then you don’t need to include the kitchen sink. There seems to an ingrained human instinct to fill slide files…
What’s this “presentitis” I keep hearing so much about?
If you spend much time using social media to keep up with what’s going on the PowerPoint and presentation industries,…
Control space, convey meaning
Controlling space is one of easiest and most effective ways you have of making your slides easier to read and…
Five People You Meet When You Make Presentations
Five People You Meet When You Make Presentations #1: Vickie Versions
As we like to point out here at SlideSource, presentation creation is often a team activity. And, as we all…
Five People You Meet When You Make Presentations #2: Sally Sharer
Last week we kicked off this series of posts by introducing you to Vickie Versions, a team member you might…
Five People You Meet When You Make Presentations #3: Sly D’Stroyer
In the previous installments of this series, we met Vickie Versions and her good friend Sally Sharer — two team members you might…
Five People You Meet When You Make Presentations #4: Louie Lostem
The previous installments of this series introduced you to three archetypal team members you might not pick if you were the…
Five People You Meet When You Make Presentations #5: Harry Hermit
The previous installments of this series described four archetypal co-workers that may be familiar to you — Vickie Versions, Sally Sharer, Sly D’Stroyer,…
When Your Slides Want to Play Hide and Seek
Olly Olly Oxen Free: When Your Slides Want to Play Hide and Seek (Part 1)
You and your team worked long and hard on creating the elusive perfect slide. It makes the key point of…
Olly Olly Oxen Free: When Your Slides Want to Play Hide and Seek (Part 2)
In part one, we talked about how being able to find the right slide, right when you need it can be…
Olly Olly Oxen Free: When Your Slides Want to Play Hide and Seek (Part 3)
In part one, we talked about how being able to find the right slide, right when you need it can…