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Term #26:  Waffle

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Presentation God Available for Pre-Orders

Presentation God Available for Pre-Orders

How to Be a Presentation God is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Pre-order your copy today!
Also, if you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet – PresentationGod.com is now up and running! It is still a bit basic, but at least it is live.

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A Confession About Me

A Confession About Me

Here is my confession:  I love creating web sites. The problem: none of them have worked for me.
If you have followed me for quite some time, you have probably noticed that I have created sites here, there, and everywhere.  I know, I know. I hardly know where I live online as well.  It has all [...]

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Stuff Presenters Like eBook

Stuff Presenters Like eBook

I want to introduce you to Stuff Presenters Like: The Top 50 Good, Bad & Lame Stuff Presenters Do Everyday! It is a compilation of all the best presentation terms and definitions I have created over the last year and a half.
What will you find in this eBook?

37 pages of fun presentation terms and definitions
Valuable presentation [...]

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Book Cover for Presentation God

Book Cover for Presentation God

Here is a sneak peek of my book cover (just received it this morning from Wiley). Personally, I love it! I am taking the hero/villain angle and fleshing the story out online in the weeks/months ahead. Stay tuned regarding that item. With that said, you should notice the evil “Bulletron” in the background. [...]

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How to Be a Presentation God

How to Be a Presentation God

If you have been following my tweets (@scottschwertly) you may have heard that I am writing a book.  It’s called How to Be a Presentation God: Build, Design, and Deliver Presentations that Dominate! and it reveals the secrets for how to build, design, and deliver a fire-breathing, wing-flapping, roar-bellowing behemoth of a presentation.
This has been [...]

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Term #39: Diamond Transition

Term #39: Diamond Transition

Diamond Transition: [dahy-muhnd tran-zish-uhn] the end result of a failed alchemic effort undertaken by Microsoft in the 80s to keep audiences awake for periods longer than ten minutes.
The 80s may be a ten-year stain of memory on your brain that, looking back, you might have preferred to save for later tasks like remembering whether or [...]

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Review of Everyone Communicates, Few Connect

Review of Everyone Communicates, Few Connect

For the depraved among us that sit around watching for the demise of influential people, I have some bad news: Everyone Communicates, Few Connect is not John Maxwell’s memoir of apostasy, denouncing a lifetime of values-based leadership. In fact, the latest installment of leadership guidance from the celebrated church and business leader is a continuation [...]

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Term #38: Spielberg

Term #38: Spielberg

Spielberg: [speel-burg] a presentation master who, plucking the masses’ heartstrings as though they were a golden lyre, creates presentations that alter the course of peoples’ lives, of history, and of the very laws of nature itself.
Let me disappoint you: the Spielberg is an ideal that is aspired to; it does not yet exist. All around [...]

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A Review of Presentation Zen Design

A Review of Presentation Zen Design

With his insightful, practical, latest work, Garr Reynolds demystifies the doing of dynamic eye-candy and pens an everyman’s guidebook to uncommonly good design. Reynolds’ follow-up to his popular Presentation Zen, this new volume – Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations – picks up where that other book left off, [...]

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Term #37: Rewind

Term #37: Rewind

Rewind: [ree-wahynd] the very real repetition of vital information; if fake, please see déjà vu.
Tapes, VHS cassettes, and movie reels are so obsolete at this point that a link to the standardized Webster’s definition of rewind might be in order. Of course, we can track backwards on CDs, DVDs, mp3s, etc. also, so why [...]

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