When dealing with difficult audiences, it's important to be aware of the cast of characters involved.

As presenters, we regularly need to show our audiences how to fill out forms.

When replacing text with a visual, don't make the mistake of thinking that you need a fancy or complex visual.

When you are talking about date based events or information, don't use a simple list of the dates with no visual.

When you are presenting a calculation and how changes will affect it, make sure you do it so that the information is clearly understood.

Legal topics can be dry and boring if presented using slides that simply contain the words from a document.

In many training situations, too much text is put on the slide.

When explaining a technique, it is better to show than to tell.

Guy Kawasaki illustrates a simple-to-remember and truly effective mini-set of rules to conquer PowerPoint's typical low-legibility, visual boredom, and inability to augment the presentation being delivered.

Analogies are a good way to help the audience understand your point.

For this session, you will learn how to create screen capture PowerPoint visuals that are big enough to see because they zoom in on the key parts of the screen.

This preview shows you how to grab a screen capture and use it to illustrate a web site or application in your PowerPoint presentation.

Analogies are a good way to help the audience understand your point.

If you are showing a process that repeats on a regular basis, make sure that it is clear for the audience.

On a monthly, quarterly or annual basis many people report their activity to the boss, a committee or stakeholders.

Often the design of our slides actually promotes too much text and leads to reading the slides.

This 20-page colorfully illustrated document could be used as an electronic handout.

Recent research by Ben L.

A guide to the things an instructor new to blogging should know.

This 20-page colorfully illustrated document could be used as an electronic handout.