Chris Forbes is the co-author of Guerrilla Marketing for Nonprofits and a certified guerrilla-marketing coach. His varied background in marketing includes experience in the faith sector and work on five continents, and he has pioneered several media initiatives in public relations, television, radio and the Internet. The interview was conducted by Don Akchin, a principal […]
#PRESENTATIONDESIGN: MKC Reel (Excerpts)
The Challenge: Many of our clients require slide presentations as training materials or as speaker support and they’re looking to get away from the dreaded “Death by PowerPoint” experience. Our Solution: We work with our clients to develop a narrative, develop design and layout solutions, and create infographics and data visualizations so that the audience […]
#BookReview: Ten Steps On The Road To ‘Presentation Zen’
This is a repost of an article that originally appeared on the MKCREATIVE blog in May, 2010. The business/education/PR presentation got a boost in the ’90s when Microsoft PowerPoint gave us the opportunity to turn the staid lecture (from Lectio, ‘to read’) into a multi-media extravaganza of bullet points and pie charts and popping 15-point […]
#TECH: Mac? Windows? Need Both On Your iPad? Use Both! (Part III)
Is it a Mac? Is it a PC? It’s Virtualization! In 2014 on Tech Fridays, we looked at virtualization software that allows you to run multiple operating systems on one desktop or laptop. In a repost of the second article in this series, we covered the concept and the software packages of Parallels and VMWare. […]
#MEETUP: Join Us For The inaugural PechaKucha Night In Baltimore On October 24th
Join us at a unique event organized by Sidas Saulynas, Hillel Glazer, and Marco Kathuria in Baltimore later this month. It’s called, “PechaKucha”. You may have heard of it. It’s the art of concise presentations. If not, you may have heard of “Ignite“? They’re similar, but Ignite has a different goal to that of […]
#COMMUNICATIONS: Presentation Software Also Moving To The Cloud
Slide presentations have been both the bread-and-butter and the champagne-and-caviar of the business pitch. Slides offer an outline and a set of visual cues that help engage audiences and move donors to action. Moreover, the best-known desktop applications to create presentations, Microsoft’s PowerPoint and Apple’s Keynote, offer various ways to save your slideshow and share […]
#Tech: Collaboration Tools To Navigate The Cloud
Everyone in the tech and communications worlds is talking about ‘The Cloud.’ And so have we. The concept might seem new, but really it’s the term, not the technology, that’s new. But even as we send our entertainment, files, and photos to iCloud, Dropbox, and Flickr (etc.), we might feel like the cloud provides a […]
How-to: 7 Tips to Set your Slide Presentations on Fire
We’ve been providing PowerPoint and conference support for many of our clients since the early 1990s (some recent examples of our work can be found here) and while the technology may have changed, the core elements that make a good presentation great still remain: compelling content, a good “story”, professional coaching, and speaker practice — […]
