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By Jon Lam, Toastmasters International
Do you ever look back to school or university days and remember moments when you carefully avoided a teacher’s gaze when he or she was looking for someone to answer a question? If so, we have something in common.
As a shy person, I have never felt a strong need to open my mouth (unless I am hungry). However, after missing out on countless opportunities in my personal and professional life by keeping my mouth shut, I realized that I had to start opening it more. And that meant improving my communication skills.
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Ric Bretschneider spent 17 years working on the Microsoft PowerPoint team, building features you both love and fear. Along with his passion for software design, he has spent many years teaching users’ good presentation practices and fighting “Death by PowerPoint” through hard and soft skill building. He created the Microsoft PowerPoint Team blog, writing more entries there than any other individual blogger, and still writes on the subject today. A featured speaker at every Presentation Summit, Ric notoriously and accidentally created its popular “Late Night Guru Session,” where patrons learn PowerPoint secrets and talk presenting into the wee hours of the night.
In this conversation, Ric talks about his participation at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2021, being held on location in Clearwater Beach, FL, and virtually this year from September 26 to 29, 2021.
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Wendy Gates Corbett, CPTD is an international presenter, presentation consultant, and certified trainer who works with executives, leaders, and professional athletes to become clear, confident presenters. She is the ‘Dean’ of Slide School®, a fun, affordable monthly 30-minute virtual program featuring tips for simple slide design. As President of Signature Presentations and a global corporate training executive, Wendy has spoken for more than 150,000 people around the world about belonging, confidence, and powerful presence. Her research on belonging explores the intersection of all three of these topics. She’s on a mission to make sure you know that you belong here (wherever ‘here’ is) and to help you uncover the confidence that comes when you know it.
In this conversation, Wendy talks about her participation at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2021, being held on location in Clearwater Beach, FL, and virtually this year from September 26 to 29, 2021.
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If you want to insert a video clip within your PowerPoint slide, spare a thought for why you would insert video clips in the first place. Most of the video clips are just added to grab attention. Before we show you how you can add a video clip to your slide in PowerPoint for the Web, let us explore a few good reasons to add video clips.
Learn how you can insert a video clip on a slide in PowerPoint for the Web.
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We begin by exploring how you can insert video clips in PowerPoint 365 for Windows. We do have similar tutorials for other PowerPoint versions too. We feature four more speakers from the upcoming Presentation Summit conference being held this September. They are Glenn Gibson, Richard Goring, Nigel Holmes, and Faith-Christina Duncan.
We also feature Kyle Murtagh of Confidence by Design in a video interview along with a transcript. We also bring you quotes, press releases, and templates from the last few days.
Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.
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