New episode of The Presentation Podcast now available!
Our three industry experts — Troy Chollar, Sandy Johnson, Nolan Haims — have a lively discussion about the future of presentation design in 2025. Each offering 2.5 presentation design predictions for this year, ranging from the impact of AI to the importance of accessibility and emerging design trends. Listen on your favorite podcast app, or at The Presentation Podcast site HERE.
New episode of The Presentation Podcast now available!
Welcome to a special episode of the Presentation Podcast, aptly titled “A Journey Through Time: Pro & Tech Tips Only”. In this episode, hosts Troy, Sandy, and Nolan take a journey through their favorite Pro and Tech Tips from past episodes. They share their curated list of apps, presentation formatting tips, and gadgets that have been game-changers for them, and listener favorites. Listen on your favorite podcast app, or at The Presentation Podcast site HERE.
Back in July of 2021 our post “My QAT is All Words! Give Me Back My Icons” was visited a lot! Which we interpret to mean the PowerPoint update to the default QAT display affected a lot of people. In summary, we lamented how Microsoft PowerPoint’s update altered the visibility of the 37 icons in TLC’s standard QAT setup. After some research, we found the new setting and “fixed” the QAT bar. The solution was (note below is the new-new way to update the QAT bar text labels), right click an empty space on the QAT and use the new option, “hide command labels” to return the QAT to icons only. Yay – our QAT once again was icons vs. text labels.
Fast forward three years to November 2024, and we have discovered that new command, “hide command labels”, has moved. Here is the new process – and solution if your QAT is showing long text labels and not icons:
Hopefully this is helpful! And if you are looking to turbo charge your QAT, download and install the TLC Creative custom QAT – read about it and download here.
New episode releasing on The PowerPoint Blog today!
The final podcast episode of 2024, #212, releases today with Troy, Nolan and Sandy recounting their 12 most memorable presentation highlights of 2024. Listen on your favorite podcast app, or at The Presentation Podcast site here.
New episode release at The PowerPoint Blog!
This episode, the conversation is about visual design and the application of visual thinking and communication in management and leadership. It involves using visual aids, metaphors, and storytelling to convey a vision and engage an audience effectively. As Todd Churches explains, leadership is about having a vision of a better future and communicating that vision so others can see it too!
Listen here.
In this podcast episode, Troy, Nolan, Sandy, and guest Stephy Hogan delve into the intricacies of where familiar Adobe tools are in PowerPoint. Stephy’s new book, “The Reluctant Designer’s Field Guide to PowerPoint” is now available, and is an amazing resource for both Adobe designers working in PowerPoint, and PowerPoint designers moving to Adobe Creative Suite apps. This episode is a treasure trove of insights and tips, listen now!
Join the conversation through your favorite podcast app, or at the episode 210 webpage that includes the shownotes, links to resources, and photos!
I made a quick mini-presentation video of my 2024 Presentation Summit mini-presentation that was part of the “AI Showdown”.
Troy @ TLC
At the 2024 Presentation Summit conference I was invited to be part of a fun event, “The AI for Presentation Showdown”. The goal was 5 event presenters each had 4 minutes to display a real-world application of an AI tool of their choice used for presentation – which could mean presentation design, presentation content creation, etc.
My AI tool was using Microsoft CoPilot, from within PowerPoint, to provide a 3rd party/unbiased review of the presentation and provide a summary of the content, based on the slide content. The prompt was simply “Summarize this presentation”. The idea is to review with the presenter and see if the external summary of the presentation message aligned with the message they planned.
I think this is a great use of AI as it provides an unbiased review and summary, which is a great conversation starter.
(note: I intended to have a video of my portion of this talk, but sadly no video was captured…)
Troy @ TLC
In this episode of the Presentation Podcast, Troy, Nolan and Sandy spend some time with Mike Parkinson, a graphic designer, prolific conference speaker, and the person behind the Build-A-Graphic PowerPoint add-in. We talk about the evolving landscape of presentation design, particularly the role AI tools now play. Mike shares his “3 AI truths”, emphasizing that AI tools enhance productivity and creativity, not threatening jobs. We also cover the importance of understanding the audience, effective storytelling, and common presentation mistakes. Listen to the conversation now!
Join the conversation through your favorite podcast app, or at the episode 207 page, with shownotes.
Click here to listen.
(Troy & Lori recording podcast conversations at the 2022 Presentation Summit)
The 2024 Presentation Summit is coming in less than 30 days! This is an annual event that I book on our calendar to not miss. In fact, I have officially missed only two of the summits throughout its 22 year run (a few, like last year, I was only able to be at for part of the in-person event).
Last week’s episode of The Presentation Podcast with Rick Altman, conference director of the Presentation Summit, Rick offered a registration promo – $75 off to either the in-person event or the virtual event.
If you are planning to attending this year, here is that promo/discount code (that we are making available to all PowerPoint blog readers!):
Both Lori and myself (Troy) of TLC Creative will be in attendance, so say hello!
Event registration is here: https://betterpresenting.com/summit24/registration