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We begin with an exclusive book excerpt from Jerry Weissman’s Presentations in Action book, in which he explores how several blind men touch and then describe an elephant. It’s the same with presentations, as you will understand from this post. We then feature Anand R Krishnan of SlideBazaar, a presentation design agency that provides modern, high-quality presentation designs and custom slides.
For PowerPoint 365 for Windows users, we look at the types of shapes available. We also bring you quotes, press releases, and templates from the last few days.
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Amy Wolff is President of Distinction Communication. Inc, a speaker coaching firm out of Portland, OR. When clients need a trusted truth-teller to help them accurately assess their presentation skills, she provides expert, hands-on coaching. Amy is also a speaker coach for TEDxPortland and delivered her own TEDx talk in 2022. You can read about the surprising personal story of how Amy accidentally started a global movement of love in her book Signs of Hope. Outside of work, Amy loves playing board games with her young family, screaming at soccer games, and trying to keep (too many) house plants alive.
In this conversation, Amy talks about her new co-authored book, A Kids Book About Public Speaking.
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PowerPoint provides hundreds of shapes efficiently categorized into nine types. You can do so much with these shapes—for example, you can combine shapes to create your own unique shapes, format shapes with fills, lines, and effects, and even group or layer them one over the other to create more amazing graphics. You can even create flowcharts with these shapes.
Learn about different types of shapes in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
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In 1872, John Godfrey Saxe, an American poet, published a poem based on an ancient Indian fable about six blind men who were asked to describe an elephant by touch. One man said it was a wall, another a spear, another a snake, another a tree, another a fan, and the last man a rope. The final stanza of the poem concludes:
And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong!
Image: Blind men and an elephant. (2022, September 17). In Wikipedia.
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Anand R Krishnan is a presentation expert and the founder of SlideBazaar, a presentation design agency. After his post-graduation in fine arts, he started off his career as a visual designer, creating presentations for in-house teams. He later worked extensively as a freelance presentation designer for Fortune 500 companies. He founded SlideBazaar when he realized there was a demand for modern, high-quality presentation designs and custom slides.
In this conversation, Anand discusses SlideBazaar.
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