In today's blogpost I want to touch upon one of my other favourite topics - presentations. There's no doubt that an effective presentation is a killer tool for business success. If presentation skills are so important, then you'd want to think every professional worth their salt should be able to create and deliver an effective presentation. So here I am, making another set of points -- about six things you should NEVER do, if you want to be an effective presenter. You can confidently make your presentation, because you have a strong grip on your story! MORE >>

Visual Design Basics View more presentations from sumeet.moghe. Sumeet Moghe, 2009. Tags: presentations yam design instructional design I'm sorry I'm not doing a weekend blogpost, because I'm busy hosting RubyConf India. That said, during my spare time I put together some slides for a lunch-and-learn session that I'm planning next week. The topic of the talk is 'Visual Design Basics' , and while I understand you won't glean much information from the slides, you can try and get a flavour for what I'll bark about! MORE >>

Instead, in today's blogpost I'll share with you three tips that can really help bring your presentations alive. You'll see several presentation gurus use this trick all the time and it comes in handy when there are more than one element on the screen and you need to focus only on one of them. Tom's obviously a great practitioner of slide-based presentations and his talk last month was no exception. Tom's made a habit of this though, and you'll see that even on the presentation he did at DevLearn 2010. Sumeet Moghe, 2009. You should see the slides here. MORE >>

That said, I have a few thoughts about how you use these images in your presentation. often notice presentations where images are dropped in randomly and make the slide look like the stickered door of your hostel room! Of course this requires a little more work to get into an industrial style publication, but for the purpose of a presentation/ elearning, this is good enough. Here are a few examples: Presentation tools such as PowerPoint and Keynote usually have elements/ styles such as these built in. Sumeet Moghe, 2009. Image dropped into an office context. MORE >>

In my post, 2008 2009 - written in December 2008, I looked at how well I did in those predictions, and my results were pretty good, not perfect. We will especially see a rapid growth in the use of wikis for content presentation. Some training will still be preferred face to face such as when team building or in-person soft skills are important, but 2009 will be the year when we realize that we should be justifying any in-person training. 2009 is going to be a big year for this issue. Last year I laid out in January my Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008. tools. MORE >>