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TPP e207 – Navigating the Presentation Design Minefield: AI, Story Structure, Understanding the Audience – a Conversation with Mike Parkinson
e206 – Insights into the 2024 Presentation Summit – A Conversation With Rick Altman
Show Notes – Episode #206 As our world of presentation skills and design continues to evolve, one community is preparing for a significant milestone: the last in-person conference for The Presentation Summit. This marks the end of an era that has spanned 22 years, with the 2024 edition of the annual conference is being labelled, "The Last [...]
e205 – The Saga of Fonts in PowerPoint, with Julie Terberg
Show Notes – Episode #205 If you use PowerPoint, having a base understanding of font file types and options is important. A new whitepaper by Microsoft MVP for PowerPoint Julie Terberg, titled "Choosing fonts for PowerPoint templates" is a (free!) great resource. Displaying letters, numbers, and symbols takes layers of complex behind-the-scenes code. And if a non-Microsoft [...]
e204 – Made You Look with Carmen Simon
Show Notes – Episode #204 Carmen Simon, the cognitive neuroscientist behind the amazing 2016 book Impossible to Ignore now introduces a seismic shift to presentation slide design planning and execution with her latest book, Made You Look. Based on her extensive research on how people retain presented information, this is a textbook worth internalizing if you present [...]
e203 – How TLC Creative Organizes PowerPoint Projects with Troy & Lori Chollar
Show Notes – Episode #203 The business side of presentation design is hard. Setting up processes and workflows is also hard, but they minimize the business side time needs and maximizes the design side time. Troy and Lori of TLC Creative Services, Inc. share a behind-the-scenes look at the project management system in place and the multiyear [...]
e202 – CoPilot, Presentation Design, & Excel without Formulas
Show Notes – Episode #202 Join us on a journey through the cutting-edge world of AI assistants and tools as we explore Microsoft 365 Copilot. Imagine having a personal assistant that not only understands your needs but also anticipates them, seamlessly integrated into PowerPoint to create and edit presentations, elevating your productivity to new heights. In this [...]
201 – Is It Legal for AI To Create My Presentation Content?
Show Notes – Episode #201 Can AI generated art be copyrighted? Can AI generated art be used in client presentations? Troy, Nolan and Sandy spend this episode going through the many online articles they amassed on the topic of the legal use highlights of AI generated content. While no guidance is provided, it is a lively conversation! [...]