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Death By PowerPoint? Three Ways to Revive Your Presentations!

Tech Soup

Here's something we all dread: Slide after slide loaded with text that is being "read" by the presenter. Reduce the number of slides and increase the number of interactions. Second: Edit each slide so it is easy on the eye and on the brain. The details are always a click away instead of being in the way.

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Tools to Tell Your Digital Story Available Through TechSoup

Tech Soup

The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge is back and there are some great prizes in store for organizations with the most creative, compelling, and entertaining stories. If you’ve never created a digital story with a distributed team, then read this recap to learn how some well-known nonprofit storytellers do it.

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Moving from Story to Narrative

Tech Soup

Although storytelling has become quite the buzzword, do you understand how it fits into your narrative? Stories are for others to witness and are mainly about the storyteller. Your Narrative and Digital Storytelling. Narratives lend themselves to transmedia storytelling, so use different tools like video and photography.

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6 Tips for Nonprofit Professionals on Speaking Brilliantly with Your Slides

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Looking at your entire presentation from their perspective will not only encourage you to cut any excess information, but also help you to design more compelling slides. Eileen Smith of Spokesmith, on empathy: “A great way to demonstrate you have values in common is through storytelling. Creating a Legacy from Beth Singer Design.

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Games for Change 2011: Channeling Our Collective Power

Tech Soup

Playing games has pushed into the primetime market, and with that statement, Chris Swain , CEO and Founder of Talkie, displayed a slide that showed weekly audience numbers for the wildly popular social game, FarmVille, towering above primetime television shows such as Dancing with the Stars , NBC Sunday Night Football and CSI.

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Reflections on the Meyer Memorial Trust Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also like to practice my storytelling skills. While I was presenting, I was thinking what ten-minute chunk to cut or where I should skip through some slides. I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time. Observations.

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Jocelyn Harmon on Nonprofits and Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

m a reader, writer, thinker and storyteller. t able to access the PowerPoint during the presentation and had to do the presentation old school style via flip charts. We posted the deck to Slide Share and she linked to it. in parts of the tech and marketing world. Tell me about you. Most days I???m Professionally, it???s