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...

If you haven't figured it out by now, one of the most important things that I recommend you do is to take your presentation and instead of projecting it on screen, print it out and give it to your audience ( FOR ORGANIZING AND TEACHING PRESENTATIONS only...

Sports fans, our Colonel (O6) presentation taste test has been postponed because of snow. On Wednesday night, it snowed approximately 2 - 3 inches in the Seattle area and accordingly the population panicked, with the result, being roads clogged with spun...

No one in the Army like training meetings. I know that I hated them. Someone gets up and presents a stunningly long deck of slides that eventually numbs the audience into resigned acceptance. In fact, yesterday I was talking with a hard charging 11B E7...

Sorry for being so late, but today I have been busy, secretly training a unit of the US. Army in how to improve their briefings using the Modern Presentation Method. The training was a huge success, the officers and NCOs involved are excited to try out...

Today's blog post is for all of you out there who use presentations to sell or market to an end customer. These are Pitch Presentations . Now, one of the most annoying problems in presenting today is something called the Never Ending Story. This...

Wow! Just finished meeting with Stephen Kosslyn PHD, former Dean of Social Sciences at Harvard , currently the Director for the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford . Dean Kosslyn is a pioneer in the world of cognitive neuroscience...

Slide Karaoke is problem #1 with most presentations today. Slide Karaoke is when a presenter puts up a slide with a bunch of text with bullets on it and then proceeds to read each bullet to the audience. Here's the problem with Slide Karaoke...

All right, people have been asking me all week, do you have a single slide that shows what the Modern Presentation Method is? So here it. The five steps are outlined (Visualize, Storyboard, Build, Rehearse, and Execute), if the method varies by presenter...

It has been a crazy week! I spent most of it at the Microsoft - US Army Symposium talking about how the Modern Presentation Method can help the Army save time and drive better presentation outcomes. They loved it! More to come on that in future weeks...

At the US Army - Microsoft 2011 technology symposium for the next 3 days so I don't know how much time I will have to post. Have a ton of side meetings to talk about how the Army can use the Modern Presentation Method to help them improve their internal...

This post is for all of you out there who downloaded yesterday's template. I used the template to convert a PowerPoint Deck that I found on the web from its original look to one that conforms to the Modern Presentation Method. The deck in question was...

I have put together an template based on the tenets of the Modern Presentation Method that you can use to quickly create a beautiful and compelling presentation. There are 8 basic layouts in this template. In each case, the presenter can use the templates...

I am going to advise all of you to engage in a cardinal sin of presenting. Give handouts to your audience! Virtually every presenting expert will tell you not to do this. They are right if you are giving a Pitch presentation. In the case of a Pitch, you...

Look, I am going to tell you a little secret about presentations. That secret is that your audience is not conditioned to listen to you speak uninterrupted for more than 10 minutes at a time. You see, most people watch several hours of TV each day and...