Just an update on the ModernPresenter's travels. I am visiting Quantico, Virginia today to introduce the USMC to the Modern Presentation Method. Wish me luck! DK

Whirlwind trip with a ton of meetings. CAC, CAC-T, BCTP, CGSC, MC COE and even ABC. Looking forward to how Microsoft can help the Army save time and money using MPM. More Posts soon. DK

Big day for the ModernPresenter. Got up at 5:40am to leave for Fort Leavenworth to pitch the Army on testing and adopting the Modern Presentation Method. Step #1 - Take a picture of my parking spot so I remember where I parked. Stay tuned. DK

All right, it's Template Thursday. Today's Super_Green_Template is great for Pitching or Teaching and has a nice green color scheme. Steal this and use it for your next presentation. Let me introduce you to one of the slide layouts in this template. It...

Hello everyone. I've been off the grid working on a military map symbols set for the US Army Graphics Library. If everything goes as planned we will have a test version of the library available in the next two weeks. Also, tomorrow is template Thursday...

Change is hard! Especially within an organization. People are afraid to move from what is familiar, even if it is sub-optimal, to something that is unfamiliar. People have been emailing me lately asking how they should introduce the Modern Presentation...

Today's post will be a quick one. These are for all of those people who are creating Pitch or Teaching presentations for onscreen or want a sharp on paper Organizing presentation. Many times when you want to include a chart of a graph you can't find one...

We've spent the last few weeks going over Step 3 of the Modern Presentation Method: Build and Refine. Now it's time to move on to the second to last step, Step 4: Rehearse (and Refine). At the end of Step 3: Build and Refine, the goal was to have a...

Just a quick post today as the last couple have been looooong. Here is a little template for you all to use. It is actually a Slide Starter. Just take the file and replace all the placeholders. It is for a scorecard for a project that has 5 key strategies...

For three years here at Microsoft, one of my duties was to oversee all keynotes at our annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). For example, in 2010, I oversaw 42 different keynotes involving almost a 500 member virtual team that spanned Microsoft and...

Anyone who has ever been in the US Army knows and dreads decision briefings. The briefer gets up in front of the Old Man. He then proceeds to take the attendees of the briefing through a long, tortuous presentation, replete with slides containing lots...