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Boost Your Public Speaking Skills!

Additional Resources

Contents

Books ..................................................................................................... 2

Blogs & Guru Sites ................................................................................... 3

Tutorials, Tips & Tricks ............................................................................. 4

Presentation Repositories .......................................................................... 4

Presentation Examples ............................................................................. 5

Clipart & Stock Photography ...................................................................... 5

Software, Web Tools & PowerPoint Add-ins ................................................. 5

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Books

● “The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

(Expanded edition)”, Dan Roam, Portfolio Hardcover, 2009

● “Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery”, Garr

Reynolds, New Riders Press, 2008

● “Confessions of a Public Speaker”, Scott Berkum, O'Reilly Media, 2009

● “Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story”, Jerry Weissman, Prentice

Hall, 2006

● “Boost Your Presentation IQ: Proven Techniques for Winning Presentations and Speeches”, Marilyn Pincus, McGraw-Hill, 2005

● “The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of

Any Audience”, Carmine Gallo, McGraw-Hill, 2009

● “Slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations”, Nancy

Duarte, O'Reilly Media, 2008

● “Loud & Clear: 5 Steps to Say What You Mean and Get What You Want”, Karen

Berg, Career Press, 2008

● “Blank Page to First Draft in 15 Minutes: The Most Effective Shortcut to

Preparing a A Speech or Presentation”, How to Books, 2002

● “How to Make the Most out of Every Media Appearance”, George Merlis, McGraw-Hill, 2003

● “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, Daniel Pink,

Riverhead, 2005

● “Made to Stick”, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die”,

Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Random House, 2007

● “The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling: Mastering The Art and Discipline of

Business Narrative”, Stephen Denning, Jossey-Bass, 2005

● “Give Your Speech, Change the World: How to Move Your Audience to Action”,

Nick Morgan, HBS Press, 2005

● “Doug Stevenson's Story Theater Method (previously titled: Never Be Boring Again)”, Doug Stevenson, Cornelia Press, 2008

● “Real Leaders Don’t Do PowerPoint: How to Sell Yourself and Your Ideas”,

Christopher Witt & David Fetherling, Crown Business, 2009

● “Presentation Skills 201: How to Take it to the Next Level as a Confident,

Engaging Presenter”, William R. Steele, Outskirts Press, 2009

● “The Exceptional Presenter: A Proven Formula to Open up and Own the

Room”, Timothy Koegel, Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2007

● “Beyond Bullet Points: Using PowerPoint 2007 to Create Presentations That

Inform, Motivate, and Inspire”, Cliff Atkinson, Microsoft Press, 2007

● “The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone

Starting Anything”, Guy Kawasaki, Portfolio, 2004

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Blogs & Guru Sites

● Presentation Zen (Garr Reynolds)

http://www.presentationzen.com

● Visual Thinking community

http://vizthink.com

● Garr Reynolds’ official site http://www.garrreynolds.com

● How to Change the World (Guy Kawasaki)

http://blog.guykawasaki.com

● Solving Problems with Pictures (Dan Roam)

http://www.thebackofthenapkin.com

● The Mind Mapping Software Blog

http://mindmappingsoftwareblog.com

● Six Minutes – Your guide to becoming a confident and effective speaker

http://sixminutes.dlugan.com

● Powerful Presentation Techniques (Paul Gibler) http://www.connectingdots.typepad.com/ppt/

● Storytelling in Business Skills (Doug Stevenson)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy_38SDNTQ4

● The Storybag (Peter Frühmann)

http://www.storybag.nl/en/story-bag.html

● Visual Being

http://www.visualbeing.com

● Information is Beautiful

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net

● Death to (bad) PowerPoint http://power-points.blogspot.com

● It's the story, stupid (Doc Searls)

http://www.searls.com/present.html

● An Age of Presentation: Styles, Trends, and Trendsetters

http://www.viget.com/inspire/presentation-styles-trends-trendsetters/

● Six Minutes: Speaking and Presentation Skills

http://sixminutes.dlugan.com

● Storytelling That Moves People (HBR article)

http://hbr.org/web/special-collections/insight/communication/storytelling-

that-moves-people

● How to Wow 'Em Like Steve Jobs (BusinessWeek article)

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/apr2006/sb20060406_865110.htm

● PowerPoint Is Evil (Edward Tufte, Wired article) http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html

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Tutorials, Tips & Tricks

● Visual Literacy: An E-Learning Tutorial on Visualization for Communication,

Engineering and Business http://www.visual-literacy.org

● Mind Mapping for Marketers and Writers

http://onepagenewsletters.com/PDF/MindMappingforMarketersandWriters.pdf

● Public Speaking - get 25 articles in HTML and PDF Format

http://www.get-articles.com/articles/public-speaking/

● The principles of art. The power of presentation.

http://www.presentationwiz.biz

● Tips for planning, building, and delivering presentations

http://www.presentation-pointers.com

● Speech tips. Speechwriting help. Public speaking advice. http://www.speechtips.com

● Presentation tips by Olivia Mitchell

http://speakingaboutpresenting.com

● How not to be boring

http://www.slideshare.net/emigal/how-not-to-be-boring

● 7 tips on how to make your conference panel rock

http://www.unmarketing.com/2010/11/29/7-tips-on-how-to-make-your-conference-panel-rock

● PowerPoint presentations - 8 common mistakes

http://www.symplebyte.com/microsoft_office/powerpoint/powerpoint_biggest_mistakes.html

● 18 Tips for killer presentations

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/18-tips-for-killer-

presentations.html

Presentation Repositories

● SlideShare: share presentations, documents and professional videos

http://www.slideshare.net

● TED: Ideas Worth Spreading

http://www.ted.com/talks

● Pecha Kucha Night: 20 slides set to cycle at 20 seconds each

http://www.pecha-kucha.org

● Ignite: 20 slides automated at 15 seconds each

http://www.ignitenyc.org

● Dragon’s Den: entrepreneurs pitching for investment http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden

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Presentation Examples

● Visual and Creative Thinking: What We Learned From Peter Pan and Willy

Wonka http://www.slideshare.net/themoleskin/visual-and-creative-thinking

● Getting Real About Enterprise 2.0

http://www.slideshare.net/marknadsstod/getting-real-about-enterprise-20

● The New Entrepreneur - 2010 & Beyond

http://www.slideshare.net/grasshopper/the-new-entrepreneur-2010-beyond-3335073

● The Art of the Start http://www.slideshare.net/whatidiscover/the-art-of-start

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8X57eucxnI

● From Selling Technology to Selling Value

http://www.slideshare.net/mjadoul/20081012-marketingtrilogy-montecarlo-presentation

Clipart & Stock Photography

● Wikimedia Commons media file repository (public domain and royalty free) http://commons.wikimedia.org

● The world biggest photo share site

http://www.flickr.com

● Public domain and copyright friendly free images, royalty free stock photos.

http://www.public-domain-image.com

● Free PowerPoint backgrounds, animations, royalty free photos, etc.

http://www.brainybetty.com

● Free clip art, photos, illustrations, animation, and sounds for MS Office.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/

● The “100 best” Microsoft Clip Art pictures http://www.slideshare.net/Niezette/100-pictures-for-powerpoint-

presentations/

● Professional Powerpoint graphics at $5 per image.

http://www.presentationpictures.com

● Royalty free clip art and premium low-cost stock photos

http://www.freephotosbank.com

Software, Web Tools & PowerPoint Add-ins

● Online image editor

http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/

● Free mind mapping tool (Windows, Mac, Linux) http://www.xmind.net

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● Free PowerPoint to Flash Converter (Windows)

http://www.handyarchive.com/Multimedia/Authoring-Tools/59515-iSpring-

Free-PowerPoint-to-Flash-Converter.html

● Free PowerPoint to video converter

http://www.handyarchive.com/Multimedia/Authoring-Tools/84099-Leawo-PowerPoint-to-Video-Free.html

● Free PowerPoint to PDF Converter (Windows) http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

● See your slides and control them from your iPhone

http://itunes.apple.com/app/i-clickr-powerpoint-remote/id296956937?mt=8

● A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

● Color picker add-in for PowerPoint

http://www.pptxtreme.com/colorpicker.asp

● Insert multiple choice questions into a PowerPoint slide show (Windows)

http://skp.mvps.org/downloads/pptquiz.zip