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How to develop useful and interesting ideas for your next presentation -Quora answers
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers, public relations, Public Speaking Skills, Voice, Workplace on February 16, 2011
Presentation Training Tip of the Day: If you just practice in your head at your computer, what seems like a 20 minute PowerPoint presentation will actually turn into a 50 minute presentation in front of the audience.
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers, Technology, tip of the day, Training Community on February 11, 2011
Presentation Training Tip: If you are using PowerPoint because you did last year or everyone else did, please consult your mother on what to do if all of your colleagues jump off of a cliff.
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Pitching, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, reputation management, Sales and Marketing on February 8, 2011
Public Speaking Tip of the Day: You should give a speech without doing a video-recorded rehearsal and critique only if you are willing to dictate an important memo and send it to the world without spell-checking, editing or reviewing it. Both actions are equally as reckless.
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Sales and Marketing, Technology, tip of the day, Training Community on February 7, 2011
Presentation training tip: Your colleagues and competitors spent on average 12, 16, or even 20 years on daily instruction on how to write well in school, but most of them never received more than 15 minutes on how to speak well. This is an opportunity for you.
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers, public relations, Public Speaking Skills, Social Speaking, Speaking Competition, tip of the day, Training Community, Workplace on February 4, 2011
Public Speaking Tip of the Day: People do “data dumps” because it seems “safe.” But if your goal is actual communication, data-dumping is actually the most dangerous thing you can do.
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers, public relations, Public Speaking Skills, publishing, Technology, tip of the day, Training Community, Voice, Workplace on February 3, 2011
How to integrate video into a presentation
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, podcasting, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers, Public Speaking Skills, Technology, Video, Workplace on February 2, 2011
The importance of paying attention to graphics and technical details- SNL pokes fun at Michele Bachmann
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Best Speaker of the Day, blogging, Body Language, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers, Technology, tip of the day on January 30, 2011
PRESENTATION TIP: Before using a PowerPoint presentation program, ask yourself why you need to use PowerPoint.
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, PowerPoint, Professional Speakers, tip of the day on January 28, 2011
PowerPoint Public Speaking tip of the Day
Posted by TJ Walker in Communications, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Public Speaking Skills on January 23, 2011
Use short video clips of your clients or prospects portraying them in a positive light in order to make your points in a speech; your audience will think you are brilliant.
How to deal with speaking related anxiety -Presentation training
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Audio/Video Technology, Best Speaker of the Day, Body Language, Pitching, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers, Video, Voice, Workplace, Worst Speaker of the Day on January 14, 2011
Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan
Posted by TJ Walker in advertising, Analysis, Audio/Video Technology, Authors Corner, Best Speaker of the Day, blogging, Body Language, celebrities, CEOs/Financial, Communications, Crisis Communications, Media Training, News, Politics, PowerPoint on January 10, 2011


Not even a $450 million dollar investment by Goldman Sachs can buy Facebook love in Japan.
Facebook might be the most popular social media site in the universe but in Japan it barely registers 2% of the country’s online population. Certain cultural differences in Japan, which is a more private society, and the basic nature of Facebook’s openness make for a cultural push back among the online users there.
New Rules For Becoming a More Confident Public Speaker
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Pitching, podcasting, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers, public relations, Public Speaking Skills, reputation management, Video, Voice, Workplace on January 5, 2011
Top Communication Blogs of the Day-Here’s what I’m reading
Posted by TJ Walker in blogging, Communications, Crisis Communications, Media, media relations, Media Training, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers, Public Speaking Skills, reputation management on December 31, 2010

The Media Coach Radio Show- Presentation design blog | Sticky Slides: Angry Birds fonts in PowerPoint!
- Do You Wanna be a Better Speaker? Check this out… | Public Speaking Tips from 997 Ways To Be A Great Speaker
- Can You Make it As a Professional Speaker in 2011? :: Public Speakers Blog
- Subtle little differences make all the difference! :: ‘No Sweat’ Public Speaking!
- Nick Morgan, Public Words: The Only Reason to Give A Speech in 2011
- Great Speaking Coach: Set Speaking Goals to Grow Your Business
- 5 Stages of Presentation Grief | Ethos3 – A Presentation Design Agency
- Dave Paradi’s PowerPoint Blog: The Top 5 PowerPoint Slide Makeover videos of 2010
- Elevator pitch? – Breaking Murphy’s Law
- Max Atkinson’s Blog: Twelve video clips of the month, 2010
Behind the scenes and in the studio at TJ Walker Interactive
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, blogging, Body Language, Communications, Crisis Communications, Media, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, publishing, Sales and Marketing, Social Media, Social Speaking, Story Telling on December 28, 2010
Top Communication Blogs of the Day
Posted by TJ Walker in Communications, media relations, Media Training, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers, public relations, Public Speaking Skills on December 24, 2010

Here’s what I’m reading today.
Online Video Trends: The Complete Media Industry Report – Part 2
Jon Stewart Mocks Congressman for Using Cute Dog Visuals
Posted by TJ Walker in Communications, Debate Central, Government & Politics, media relations, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers on December 23, 2010
Visuals can make or Break any presentation. Jon Stewart mocks Congressman Joseph Crowley for using Leona Helmsley’s dog in a visual for a speech against tax cuts fro the rich. Stewart’s point is that the dog is too cute and lovable.
Lesson: make sure your visuals don’t conflict with your message or confuse your audience.
Top Communication Blogs of the Day
Posted by TJ Walker in Communications, Fear of Speaking, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers on December 20, 2010
Top Communication Blogs of the Day – media training, public speaking, powerpoint
Posted by TJ Walker in Communications, Keynote Speaking, Media Training, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Professional Speakers, Public Speaking Skills, Social Media, Training Community on December 19, 2010
- Here’s what I am reading today.

The Dumbest Judge in America – It Figures – Figures of Speech
Make a Better PowerPoint for your next Presentation
Posted by TJ Walker in Analysis, Communications, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills Training, Social Media, Video on December 14, 2010















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