Tricks for Getting to the Core of Your Story (Part 1)

August 29, 2008 By Doug Neff

So you have a topic for a presentation and you’re ready to start building slides in PowerPoint, right?
Not so fast.
Before you reach for that mouse, you might want to spend some time getting your story straight. After all, presentations are basically just stories. And great presentations always come from great stories.
At Duarte, our clients come [...]

Topic: Message
Posted August 29th, 2008 at 9:31 am by Doug Neff
Tags: brainstorm, messaging, PowerPoint, story, Writing

Webinar, Seminar and Stuff, oh My!

August 26, 2008 By Nancy Duarte

The last webinar I did for VizThink had almost 12,000 people watch it. Man, folks are hungry for really great presentations. Here’s a podcast they did with me yesterday. It was a different experience to navigate through a PDF instead of having slides.
So for the upcoming VizThink webinar, I’ll be presenting with three folks who [...]

Topic: Business, Message
Posted August 26th, 2008 at 12:59 pm by Nancy Duarte
Tags: book, duarte, seminar, slide:ology, webinar

Use a Brainstorm Before You Open PowerPoint!

August 25, 2008 By Diandra Macias

We’ve all heard it before…
“the presentation is due tomorrow, and you have to pull together the content, QUICK!”
Deadlines can make you feel like you have to cut corners and eliminate some very important steps in your creative process, but try to start all projects with at least a quick brainstorm.
Pulling four of your smartest co-workers [...]

Topic: Message
Posted August 25th, 2008 at 9:33 am by Diandra Macias
Tags: brainstorm, creative, ideas, messaging, rules

Seeing the Invisible

August 22, 2008 By Nancy Duarte

I rarely treat myself to fiction due to the pile of business books looming on my desk. But this summer I read People Magazine’s must-read fiction book of the summer called The Shack.
Toward the end of the book there’s a scene where the main character is introduced to what it might look like if [...]

Topic: Book Reviews, Delivery, Message, Strategy
Posted August 22nd, 2008 at 11:27 am by Nancy Duarte
Tags: emotion, gravity, invisible, light, see

Organizing Information Is Finite

August 19, 2008 By Nancy Duarte

One of my favorite books in my library is Information Anxiety 2 written by Richard Saul Wurman. Richard not only founded TED but also hosts another intriguing conference called eg hosted in Monterey, CA in early December. In an era of exploding information, Mr. Wurman brings clarity and process to information design.
He introduces the acronym [...]

Topic: Book Reviews, Design
Posted August 19th, 2008 at 10:21 am by Nancy Duarte
Tags: Design, information, story