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Using stock photos on your slides that don’t suck!

09/04/2015 By Lee

Stock photos are a tricky one.

They can be great, they can be woeful…

bad stock photos for slides!

I talk about them alot in my PowerPoint Surgery Q&A’s.

Here’s a nice article I found on Medium to help us all find some that don’t suck…

The list includes my current favourite Death to the Stock Photo

See below for a big list of free (but pls check!) images…

  • Little Visuals http://littlevisuals.co
  • Unsplash http://unsplash.com
  • Death to the Stock Photo http://join.deathtothestockphoto.com
  • New Old Stock http://nos.twnsnd.co
  • Superfamous (requires attribution) http://superfamous.com
  • Picjumbo http://picjumbo.com
  • The Pattern Library http://thepatternlibrary.com
  • Gratisography http://www.gratisography.com
  • Getrefe http://getrefe.tumblr.com
  • IM Free (requires attribution) http://imcreator.com/free
  • Jay Mantri http://jaymantri.com
  • Public Domain Archive http://publicdomainarchive.com
  • Magdeleine http://magdeleine.co
  • Foodiesfeed http://foodiesfeed.com
  • Picography http://picography.co
  • Raumrot http://www.raumrot.com/10
  • ISO Republic http://isorepublic.com

Plus 74 (!) more here c/o the nice people at http://Canva.com  

Filed Under: leadership, powerpoint, presentationskills, slides, __EVERGREEN Tagged With: business, powerpoint, presentationskills, slides, speaker, speaking, surgery

PowerPoint surgery Online Masterclass is now live – saving the world from Death by Powerpoint!

05/11/2014 By Lee

Well, I’ve gone and done it!

After the success of my PowerPoint Surgery book and training sessions I have spent the last few months writing, developing, filming and pulling together the PowerPoint Surgery Online Masterclass, and I’m proud to say it’s now live:

Grab your free video now by visiting www.powerpointsurgery.com

Filed Under: leejackson, powerpoint, presentationskills, slides Tagged With: business, lee jackson, powerpoint, presentationskills, slides, video

Why we all need to learn from the Sign Language Interpreter at the Mandela Memorial…

17/12/2013 By Lee

The Sign Language Interpreter at the Mandela Memorial… caused quite a stir. Apparently he’d been reported before many times, but they still booked him.

Many people including other speakers, say “fake it until you make it!” and “you can do anything!” and I understand why they say that, to a point (although I’ll never say that without qualification in one of my talks – I like to give evidence for my motivation).

But let’s be clear – you can’t be confident and then have no skill at all in the chosen task, it just doesn’t work. It’s not fair to anyone including yourself, and it’s a very short term view.

Will this guy ever get a gig again? I think not, certainly not in sign language interpretation.

This especially applies to presentations, don’t fool yourself into an ugly arrogance that you can do something when you can’t! Instead learn the skills and practise, practise, practise, chip away until the experience you gain kicks in. You’ll get there in the end, but it will probably take you longer than you think.

I do a lot of presentation skills training and after a day with me, people say they are more confident than before but at the end of the sessions I always say to them – volunteer for every speaking opportunity from now on, get out there and speak, the experience will build your long term confidence and with the right coaching will make you a great speaker.

Be confident, yes!

Push yourself, yes!

But, don’t be falsely confident or even so arrogant that you forget to learn the skills needed.

No one likes a fake, be your true confident self, it’s all we’ve got, and it’s enough.

Filed Under: business, education, leadership, motivation, presentationskills, speaking, __EVERGREEN Tagged With: business, leadership, motivation, powerpoint, presentationskills, speaking

What is Haiku Deck?

05/12/2013 By Lee

The nice people at @HaikuDeck are featuring my slide deck of my book on their front page! http://www.haikudeck.com/gallery/featured 

But what is Haiku Deck? In my opinion it’s Powerpoint or Keynote with the fat trimmed off to make us better speakers, as it develops this could be a game changer.

Here’s Adam their CEO explaining all on Huff Post…

#powerpointsurgery

Filed Under: business, leadership, powerpoint, presentationskills, slides, speaking Tagged With: business, leadership, powerpoint, presentationskills, schools colleges, speaking

Some free Sans serif fonts for use on slides: c/o dafont.com

29/05/2013 By Lee

Good fonts can really make or break a slide, using sans serif fonts really helps with clarity.

Here are a few free options:

http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=501&page=2&text=A+sans+serif+font+for+slides…&fpp=50

Filed Under: business, powerpoint, presentationskills, slides Tagged With: business, leejackson, powerpoint, presentationskills, slides

What’s The Single Worst Mistake Most Speakers Make? – Forbes

28/02/2013 By Lee

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via forbes.com

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Interesting article from Forbes.com: CEOs Want Faster Training – No Matter The Cost…

16/01/2013 By Lee

By Brian O’Connell from forbes.com – http://www.forbes.com/sites/bmoharrisbank/2013/01/08/why-ceos-want-faster-tra…

A recent study by the New Hampshire-based learning solutions provider Skillsoft and the polling firm Opinion Matters found that 90% of CEOs “will either maintain or increase their training budgets” over the next year. The survey gauged the opinions of CEOs at companies with more than 250 employees in 13 business categories. [Read more…] about Interesting article from Forbes.com: CEOs Want Faster Training – No Matter The Cost…

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The self-help / positive thinking industry can be misleading and sometimes plain wrong but… gratitude journals shine through…

20/11/2012 By Lee

How to feel up in a downturn by Oliver Burkeman – The Guardian article is here – guardian.co.uk

Extract…”For the past year or so, sporadically, I have kept what the University of California psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky calls a “gratitude journal”: a notebook in which I list between three and five things for which I am currently thankful. Naturally, I am hugely embarrassed to admit this. Keeping the journal contradicts my sense of myself as a sceptical, rational, irony-appreciating British person, immune to the lures of cheesy, Oprah-esque, feelgood nonsense. Besides, I have political qualms about techniques that might turn me into a grinning, uncomplaining conformist: perhaps we should be angry and gloomy about, say, our politicians’ behaviour, or the state of the climate. The awkward truth, though, is that keeping a gratitude journal has made a detectable and sustained difference to my state of mind….”

via guardian.co.uk

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Death by PowerPoint in 1841 via Knoodle

26/10/2012 By Lee


Death by PowerPoint takes on a whole new meaning when it comes to the unfortunate tale of William Henry Harrison, our nation’s ninth president. Harrison was elected to the presidency in 1841, back when there was something called the Whig party and everyone lived without electricity. At 68, he was the oldest president elected to office until Ronald Reagan, and he’s mostly remembered for giving the worst inaugural speech ever–– a speech that directly resulted in his death.You see, Harrison delivered the longest inaugural address in history, reading over 8,000 words that clocked in at over two hours. The inauguration was on a cold, overcast day in March and he delivered it sans overcoat, hat or gloves. Unsurprisingly, he caught a cold that he couldn’t shake, which eventually escalated to pneumonia. And so, our ninth president died just 32 days after his terrible, awful, no good speech.Though the advent of the computer was more than a century away, William Henry Harrison’s unfortunate fate encompasses the two most typical elements of Death by PowerPoint: It was ridiculously long and inexplicably boring.

Laughable Length

A presentation or speech that clocks in at over two hours is almost laughable, especially in this day and age. One can only imagine what Harrison’s audience was thinking (expletives come to mind). Hopefully they hadn’t made other plans for that March day, and hopefully they’d come more appropriately dressed than Harrison.

Keep your presentations short and to the point. They say that the average person’s attention span is 18 minutes, which is probably on the generous side, so aim for brevity. Harrison’s speech was supposed to be something like 20 minutes long, and it goes without saying that if it had been that short, he probably wouldn’t have come down with pneumonia in the first place.

Bored to Death

Much of the 8,000 words Harrison spoke that day were about ancient Roman history. Granted, it was 1841 and maybe that was a more relevant topic at the time, but it’s a good bet that Harrison’s audience wasn’t expecting an extensive history lesson when they showed up on Inauguration Day. Shouldn’t a new president spend most of his Inaugural Address speaking about the country that elected him?

Don’t bore your audience to death. Always present on a topic that is relevant and engaging to the members in your audience. Think of their desires before your own. You may be able to wax poetic for 2 hours about the new iPhone 5, but that’s not relevant if your audience is a room full of doctors (or most other professions for that matter). Make sure you answer each audience member’s inevitable concern: “What’s in it for me?”

How to be a Presentation God

Avoid poor William Henry Harrison’s unfortunate fate by attending our free webinar, How to Be a Presentation God on Wednesday, October 24 at 2 pm EST. During the session, you’ll learn everything you need to know to build, design and deliver an epic presentation. Your speaker will be Scott Schwertly, our CEO at Ethos3, a presentation design agency located in Nashville, TN. Sign up today and get ready to change the world with your next presentation.

 

About Maggie Summers
Maggie Summers is the resident blogger and content writer at Ethos3 – a leader in presentation design and training based in Nashville, TN. She takes pride in empowering presenters through her knowledge and passion for presentations and powerful storytelling.

Taken from the kind people at Knoodle – http://www.knoodle.com/blog/death-powerpoint-1841

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Amazing!! New iPad Act – Stockholm with Charlie Caper and Erik Rosales – from MIPIM in Cannes v 3 – YouTube

19/09/2012 By Lee

via youtube.com

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