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	<title>Powerful Pointy Presentations</title>
	<link>http://powerfulpointypresentations.com.au</link>
	<description>Training for your personal presentation style</description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Horse&#8221; Caption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My presentation friend David Upton introduced me to this concept.
If it&#8217;s bleedingly obvious what the picture is, don&#8217;t put a caption on it, the audience will think you&#8217;re doubting their intelligence.
Here&#8217;s an example:

There is plenty of good information on how to apply captions here





		
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		<link>http://powerfulpointypresentations.com.au/02/the-horse-caption/</link>
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		<title>Learning Presentation Skills from Radio Announcers &#8211; Part 3 &#8211; The Theatre of the Mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Radio announcers use stories to unleash what’s called the “Theatre of the mind” , creating pictures in the minds of the listeners, and emotions in their hearts. They have no visual props, no PowerPoint, no video,  but they can still create the effect with just a microphone and their voice.
Orson Welles, was so good at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulpointypresentations.com.au/01/learning-presentation-skills-from-radio-announcers-part-3-the-theatre-of-the-mind/</link>
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		<title>Learn Presentation Skills From Radio Announcers – part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the previous post we talked about personalising your presentation with &#8220;you&#8217; phrasing and how to avoid &#8220;umm&#8221; and &#8220;err&#8221;.
Radio announcers can teach us much more about how to conduct an effective PowerPoint presentation.
Radio Voice
The first thing is that you don’t need a “radio voice” to be successful. The trend over the last twenty or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulpointypresentations.com.au/01/learn-presentation-skills-from-radio-announcers-%e2%80%93-part-2/</link>
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		<title>PowerPoint Presentations Reducing Performance Anxiety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s natural to be a little anxious or nervous before your big presentation and certainly preparation, planning and practice beforehand will help.
(Prior preparation and planning prevents p!ss poor performance). However if you still beel nevous before the presentation, here are some tips.
This one comes from the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Start rehearsing  your preparation, at the same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulpointypresentations.com.au/12/powerpoint-presentations-reducing-performance-anxiety/</link>
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		<title>Learn Presentation Skills From Radio Announcers &#8211; part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Presentations, focus on &#8220;You&#8221;
Here are a a couple of tips on presenting from a radio announcer&#8217;s point-of-view.
Who does a radio announcer speak to? This is a trick question. The answer is  a singular “YOU” – good radio announcers don’t say
“Hello to all you  listeners out there” , they say something like;
“Hello, how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulpointypresentations.com.au/11/learn-presentation-skills-from-radio-announcers-part-1/</link>
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		<title>3 &#8211; The Big Picture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The human brain likes images: we are programmed to react to them for our own safety, and you can use this fact to make your messages stand out. I've been to many presentations on complex subjects. Some of them have been excruciating because I didn't have a clue about the overview of the solution. Try these methods.]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulpointypresentations.com.au/11/3-the-big-picture/</link>
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		<title>Learning Presentation Skills From Advertisers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Selling the sizzle, not the sausage.

Advertisers use their words, images and stories to influence you to purchase a product service or solution or to support a cause or person. They often communicate messages to make you believe that some brands are superior, not because they are intrinsically better, but because the brand will make you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulpointypresentations.com.au/11/learning-presentation-skills-from-advertisers/</link>
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		<title>Using PowerPoint &#8211; Introduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PowerPoint, Keynote, Impress and other programs are just presentation tools - methods of producing slides for projection, nothing more, and you need to keep that in perspective. Just as the carpenter's tools are not the house, powerpoint is not the presentation. Too many presenters overuse the gimcrackery that comes with powerpoint to the detriment of their message. It's like wanting to use every feature of your mobile telephone to make a call. It's just not appropriate.]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulpointypresentations.com.au/10/using-powerpoint-introduction/</link>
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		<title>Bad Powerpoint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About Us Acme Widgets

View more presentations from Bill Kernoczy.
If your presentation looks anything like this then you&#8217;re in deep trouble. There&#8217;s lots of problems here, but guess what &#8211; I&#8217;ve actually been forced to watch presentations like this. Most of the information given rates as &#8220;Care Factor &#8211; Zero&#8221;. Are you unwittingly boring your clients [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulpointypresentations.com.au/10/bad-powerpoint/</link>
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		<title>8 &#8211; Developing a Theme for Your Presentation</title>
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Difference Between Subject and Theme
- Subject
The subject of your presentation should be fairly straightforward to define. It could be something like:

sell widget solution to Aardvark Enterprises
say no to the Traveston Dam
an analysis of Tchaikovsky&#8217;s Symphony No 2

It is the broad general topic you are speaking about and should be known to the audience beforehand. Just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://powerfulpointypresentations.com.au/10/8-developing-a-theme-for-your-presentation/</link>
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