HOME > SPEAKING > POWERFUL PRESENTATIONS > “P” Is For PREPARE Whenever you give a presentation, think of it as your moment. Your moment to engage, to persuade, to inspire. Few opportunities in life will allow for you to have the space and format for a captive audience like a
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If you, your students, or your business has built a website, you’ll want to evaluate how well it’s working. One critical method of evaluation, of course, is to conduct a usability test. You can learn more about how to do that here: How to Conduct Usability Tests. Another important method
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There’s a lot of bad information out there in regards to the COVID-19 vaccine. Most recently, there has been a movement to twist the CDC’s words about deaths by those who received the vaccine to suggest the vaccine is unsafe. Let’s clear the air: that’s a terrible rumor and simply
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“You’ll never earn enough money as a graphic designer to support a family.” That was the advice my academic advisor gave me as a late-starting 21-year-old college student (I had been living out of the country for a couple years after high school), unsuspecting and still largely impressionable. I did
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Home > Speaking > POWERFUL Presentations > POWERFUL Approach QUICK NOTE! The “P.O.W.E.R.R.F.U.L.” approach to presentation design is something I developed to think holistically about how to give the best presentations possible, no matter what the audience, topic, or circumstances are. This article covers what the approach itself is. To
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For as long as there have been artifacts of communication—speeches, articles, books, paintings, photographs, ad campaigns, whatever—there have been methods for analyzing their effectiveness. In recent years, high school and college teachers have been developing easy-to-remember acronyms to help students know the components of an artifact they should be evaluating.
Read moreI’m happy to announce that my popular infographic, “Did I Plagiarize” is now in French! Please check out the other languages we have published this poster into: English (Original) Spanish Chinese Indonesian
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After a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 in acts of insurrection—an event that led to the death of five people following heated remarks from President Trump in a rally just moments before—leaders from both Democratic and Republican parties (but mostly from the Democratic party) have swiftly
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Yesterday, I read an article published by CNN that touted this headline: “COVID-19 has killed 250,000 people in the U.S. That’s 10 times the number of deaths from car crashes in a year.” The CNN authors’ comparison to car crashes is designed to offer perspective. At a time when people
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Tempted to add one of those fancy apostrophes to your last name on your Christmas card this year? Don’t. It’s wrong. And it may embarrass you in front of your friends and family at the very time you’re trying to impress them the most. Why? Because apostrophes are punctuation marks
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