Latest posts
Below are the most recent articles or resources I’ve published. If you are looking for help on a specific topics, it would best to look at the topics in my Articles archive as I have grouped my recent and best articles by topic there.
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Converting written content to a SlideShare deck
As a professional who is using written content to market your products or services, you probably have many articles, special reports, and white papers. How can you take the content you have already created and convert it to take advantage of the SlideShare platform? Do you need to hire a designer? No. You can do… Continue reading Converting written content to a SlideShare deck Continue reading
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The Globe and Mail May 26, 2014
Dave’s article on starting your presentation with a hook that shows the audience why they need to pay attention was cited by The Globe and Mail Report on Business in this article. Continue reading
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2 Big Mistakes Professionals make using Excel data in PowerPoint
After you view these slides, read this page with advice on presenting financial information effectively. [sc:slideshare_2BigMistakes ] Continue reading
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Creating a graph in PowerPoint from data in Excel
If you want to create a graph for your PowerPoint slide using data from Excel, you have two choices. You can create the graph in Excel and link it to your slide using one of the methods in this article. Or you can create the graph in PowerPoint using the data from Excel. Don’t re-type… Continue reading
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Improving some graphs from Copyblogger’s State of Native Advertising report
I follow copyblogger.com because I find their information useful to my business. Yesterday they released a report on the state of native advertising (here is the full report). It doesn’t matter whether you know what that is (I didn’t initially). I want to explain why two of the graphs showing the results of their survey… Continue reading