Hard to believe Spring training is again underway. When it comes to baseball, I’m a complete homer — I always have been and always will be a Phillies fan. The only thing is, I really like  hockey a lot more than I like baseball. So given that the hockey season was well under way by [...]

From a post by Richard Fernandez that has absolutely nothing to do with presentations but everything to do with the way things often go wrong: Once the overall design margin of a system has been eroded, failure when it comes manifests itself in a rapid cascade of events. The hidden stresses suddenly pile on each [...]

The Presentations Council over at InfoComm International is surveying all of us presentation professionals: ARE YOU A PRESENTATION PROFESSIONAL? Compare yourself with your peers in InfoComm International’s annual Presentation Professional survey. This year it’s shorter, easier and faster to complete. Whether you’re one of many in a corporate setting, or a one-person shop wearing all [...]

My Toastmasters Blog — Public Speaking Secrets – Your Audience (and Google) Know More than You Last night I attended an open speaking event, that wasn’t Toastmasters, where speakers were tasked to give an interesting 5 minute presentation. One of the presentations was a fabulous demonstration of drawing the audience in with an interesting story, [...]

Most popular guest post based on bad search engine assumptions: The world’s worst wet T-shirt contest — Laura Bergells was kind enough to share this story that is still getting getting a lot of hits (for all the wrong reasons). As I do, a man with 2 steaming coffees in his hands walks briskly towards [...]

The Presentations Council over at InfoComm International is surveying all of us presentation professionals: ARE YOU A PRESENTATION PROFESSIONAL? Compare yourself with your peers in InfoComm International’s annual Presentation Professional survey. This year it’s shorter, easier and faster to complete. Whether you’re one of many in a corporate setting, or a one-person shop wearing all [...]

On this day it is crucial for all of us to remember that the events in our professional lives that we call “disasters” are really very small and silly when we consider the true disasters that many others in the world have lived through.