Over the past year I have asked visitors to my website about what they use PowerPoint for the most in Teams and Zoom. I had the same poll on my two pages about different ways to share PowerPoint slides in a virtual meeting, one page for Teams and one page for Zoom. The pages got…
Author: Dave Paradi
Dave Paradi has over twenty-two years of experience delivering customized training workshops to help business professionals improve their presentations. He has written ten books and over 600 articles on the topic of effective presentations and his ideas have appeared in publications around the world. His focus is on helping corporate professionals visually communicate the messages in their data so they don't overwhelm and confuse executives. Dave is one of fewer than ten people in North America recognized by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional Award for his contributions to the Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams communities. His articles and videos on virtual presenting have been viewed over 1.1 million times and liked over 10,000 times on YouTube.
How to turn off chat bubbles in Microsoft Teams meetings
Microsoft is introducing chat bubbles as the default method for following the chat in a Teams meeting. The thinking is that you no longer have to open the chat pane to follow the chat, you can now just chase the chat bubbles on the screen on top of people’s videos. I don’t think this is…
5 ways to use an industry report or white paper PDF in a PowerPoint sales presentation
As a sales professional your Marketing department is regularly producing and making available new resources for you to use in your PowerPoint sales presentations. If you’ve recently been sent a PDF of an industry report or white paper, here are five ways you can incorporate it into a PowerPoint sales presentation whether it is delivered…
5 ways to use your new website or an online report/white paper in a PowerPoint sales presentation
As a sales professional your Marketing department is regularly producing and making available new resources for you to use in your PowerPoint sales presentations. If you’ve recently been sent a link to the updated corporate website or a link to an online report or white paper, here are five ways you can incorporate it into…
5 ways to use new product photos from Marketing in a PowerPoint sales presentation
As a sales professional your Marketing department is regularly producing and making available new resources for you to use in your PowerPoint sales presentations. If you’ve recently been sent a new set of photos for a product line or service, here are five ways you can incorporate them into a PowerPoint sales presentation whether it…
5 ways to use a new promotional brochure from Marketing in a PowerPoint sales presentation
As a sales professional your Marketing department is regularly producing and making available new resources for you to use in your PowerPoint sales presentations. If you’ve recently been sent a PDF of the new promotional brochure for a product line or service, here are five ways you can incorporate it into a PowerPoint sales presentation…
5 ways to use a new promotional video from Marketing in a PowerPoint sales presentation
As a sales professional your Marketing department is regularly producing and making available new resources for you to use in your PowerPoint sales presentations. If you’ve recently been sent a new promotional video for a product line or service, here are five ways you can incorporate it into a PowerPoint sales presentation whether it is…
Virtual and Hybrid meeting skills will be needed in the future according to SurveyMonkey poll
SurveyMonkey, the online survey and poll company, recently did a poll that asked people about the future of work. Among the questions they asked was one related to where people preferred to attend different types of meetings. The choices were: in person at workplace, virtually from home, not applicable, and no answer. Not everyone attends…
More ways to engage virtual attendees; Issue #491 June 1, 2021
Last June in the newsletter I shared my article on 8 ways to engage audiences in a virtual presentation. Today I want to add four more ways you can engage attendees in a virtual presentation. Some of these methods are possible because of new features added to Teams and Zoom in the past year. Use…
New Teams sharing dialog; Issue #490 May 18, 2021
In this newsletter I shared two of the changes that are coming to the sharing dialog in Microsoft Teams meetings. This change is rolling out in spring 2021 and you can see the full article here.