Last year, an exciting request found its way to me and members of the Urban Institute’s communications team. Shena Ashley, vice president for the Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy (CNP), had been invited to deliver the opening keynote at…
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Over the past few years of doing this show, I’ve made a whole new bunch of friends. Honestly, some guests I would call ‘acquaintances’, but for others, we’ve either become new friends because of the show or they were friends…
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Molly Bauch specializes in business transformation, innovation, and strategic communications. She has more than 15 years’ consulting experience helping clients launch new programs, transform service delivery, and embrace fundamental, sustainable change. She’s a Climate Reality Leader, an International Society for…
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TLDR. PowerPoint doesn’t make bad slides and it doesn’t give bad presentations—people do. Here, I refute the arguments in a recent “death by PowerPoint”-type blog post. Though seemingly rooted in academic research, upon further inspection it becomes clear the author…
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Update (2/2/19): It’s been about a month since this contest ended and about a dozen people have added their book reviews to Amazon. I’m grateful for those responses, but before I go about shipping books around the world, I’d like…
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Don’t let people fool you. PowerPoint, like Prezi, Keynote, and others is—for better and for worse—a tool. It doesn’t matter whether it was developed by a big, bureaucratic software company or whether it has been used poorly by (countless) others,…
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Last week, I published a copy of my Data Visualization Cheatsheet, an introductory summary sheet I provide to people who take my classes and workshops. Today, I’m similarly publishing my Presentation Cheatsheet, a summary sheet I pass around at my…
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On today’s show, I’m very happy to welcome best selling author and speaker, Carmine Gallo. Carmine is the bestselling author of Talk Like TED, The Storyteller’s Secret, and most recently, Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great. He is…
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The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, hosted in the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University, empowers scientists and health professionals to communicate complex topics in clear, vivid, and engaging ways; leading to improved understanding by the public, media,…
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Terri Trespicio is an award-winning writer, speaker, and branding pro, and works with individuals and organizations to help nail their messaging and engage clients, customers, and fans. Her TEDx talk, “Stop Searching for Your Passion” has earned more than 3…
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