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The Lord Darlington approach to designing webinar presentations

TheVP
posted on March 31, 2011December 1, 2011
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Have you ever loved something that seems out of reach? In Oscar Wilde’s comedy Lady Windermere’s Fan, Lord Darlington is in love with Lady Windermere. When she does not return his love, he leaves town. Which is what a lot of people do with great webinar presentations…walk away

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Q&A: What can the ‘average’ person do about presentation graphics?

In a recent webinar Holly asked, “You are offering great ideas, but I am not a professional media person. How can an average person use graphics like you do?” Holly, the secret is no secret at all. In fact, one of the more popular private sessions I do, “Design for

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Q&A: What size images do you buy at istockphoto.com?

Trading a couple messages with someone who found me in an online forum, I thought the Q&A might be useful for some… “Just looked at istockphoto and wondered what the best size for best quality photos you would recommend? Small, medium or large? They are quite a bit more expensive

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100 free and legal sources for stock photos (and why I rarely use them)

TheVP
posted on March 26, 2010December 1, 2011
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In my webinar handouts I include additional links that you might find useful, and apparently in my latest handout the link was corrupt. So rather than making you dig through my blog for where I posted that in the past, here it is again… http://bit.ly/CfG69 And one thing to

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Q&A: do templates limit audience engagment?

TheVP
posted on October 31, 2009December 1, 2011
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In my recent Design for Non-Designers: How to Design Dynamic Webinar Presentations, Donald posed a less frequently-asked-question: “What do you think about template formats…each of your slides have been quite different…do you think templates limit audience engagement?” AWESOME question,