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This isn’t brand new—you could say it’s pretty new—but it is awesome nonetheless.

Anyone who has ever encountered the problem of not being able to find the perfect picture for a presentation (which is most likely everyone who has ever made a presentation with pictures) will appreciate this tool. It’s called Moodstream, it’s by Getty Images, and it’s super awesome.

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher!

It’s the truth. Simple and clean but quite informative. And to let you in on a little secret, I came to bestow this award because I was browsing the Top 250’s websites for inspiration… A certain website managed by yours truly may be getting a face lift in the near future…

Marketer extraordinaire Seth Godin has a wonderful little post on his blog entitled “7 Tips for Amateur Type Designers.” Here are the first three, just to get you started…

1. If you want professional results, hire a professional.
2. Don’t use the built-in fonts that come with your PC. (Type is cheap. Invest.)
3. Headlines in sans serif. Body in serif. (Easy tip—headlines are bold and condensed.)

The tips are also available in illustrate PDF form. Be sure to check out this post and implement the tips in your next presentation!

iPresentee.com has a whole bunch of “Objects” for PowerPoint, Keynote, and pretty much any publishing software available for free download right now! In their own words…

iPresentee presents free Keynote Objects for Apple’s Keynote, iWeb and Pages! The package combines 100 easy to use and attractive objects. The background of all objects is transparent and can be used on any colored background. Each object can be changed in size, rotated, increased or decreased in opacity, fitted with shadows or even overlapped with one another to create extra effects. Keynote Objects are compatible with Keynote, iWeb, Pages, Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.

Check out a few more…

Here is a quick and great video by Tom Peters about the importance of salesmanship in all professions. In it, he says: “What do I sell? Passion, ideas. I’m desperate for people to change.” Selling ideas, eh? Trying to change people, perhaps the way they think? Sounds a lot like what lawyers do to me…

Tom Peters on Yes! You Are in Sales! from Tom Peters on Vimeo.

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Today, June 5, the Internet saw the launch of what appears to be the single most promising online presentation software yet: 280 Slides.

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If you’ve ever created a PowerPoint presentation with many high-resolution graphics or, even worse, video content, you know that the file size tends to skyrocket. Further, if you’ve ever tried to email such presentations, you’ve probably run into roadblocks because your email program wouldn’t let you send attachments over 10 or 20 megabytes, or the person you were sending them to couldn’t receive them. In short, trying to email big PowerPoint is usually a huge headache. Fortunately, it can be done fairly simply and, in fact, pretty easily!

If your PowerPoint contains videos, the first thing you’ll need to do is save the file as a “PowerPoint Package.” The reason you’ll need to do this is because, for some unknown reason, PowerPoint refuses to embed video… Meaning that when you save a PowerPoint with videos as a .ppt file, the file contains only links to the videos and not the videos themselves. This means that unless your recipient has the exact same video file in the exact same place on their computer, they will get a big blank space or a big red X, depending on the version of PowerPoint they are using. Fortunately, this is really easy to do: Just select “Save As…” from the “File” menu, and when the dialogue box pops up, choose “PowerPoint Package” from the “Format” drop-down menu.

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By Clemens Kogler and Karo Szmit. Voice by Andre Tschinder.

It is quite possible—likely, in fact—that you have come across this stand-up performance by comedian Don McMillan during previous explorations of the Internet, but I see little harm in posting it one more time. This video not only makes for some light and enjoyable viewing; the advice that McMillan gives is, for the most part, spot-on…

Enjoy!

The title of this post is a pretty bold claim, since it seems that everyone loves The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White. Also, I’ve never bothered to read The Elements of Style. But this book has been so useful to me that I can hardly imagine any other being better.

The book I speak of is Writing with Style by John R. Trimble.

The thing about Writing with Style is that it isn’t a writing manual. It isn’t a style manual. It’s a thinking manual. This book, should you read it, digest it, and practice it, will teach you to think like a skilled writer. In fact, the first chapter, which I consider to be the book’s greatest, comprehensively compares the novice and the veteran writer. This chapter tells you what the veteran does, and the majority of the following chapters tell you how the veteran does it.

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