Rick Altman has been hired by hundreds of
companies, listened to by tens of thousands of
professionals, and read by millions of
people, and now he speaks with the Speak for
Success Ezine readers.
Dana: Hi Rick, Please tell us a little
about your
background.
Rick: My background is journalism -- I was
the editor of a tennis magazine for four
years out of college before desktop
publishing got invented. Once that
happened, it was so enticing, I lost interest
in running a magazine in favor
of immersing myself in what promised to be a
totally revolutionary technology.
Electronic publishing led to the wave of
digital graphics applications and
together they made great fodder for a
consultant. We hosted user conferences
for users of Ventura Publisher, CorelDraw,
and the first generation of
digital cameras. It was real heady stuff in
the early 1990s. And these
programs were really hard, and there was no
Internet to provide support. Our
conference was the only game in town back
then.
Giving seminars on graphics led to an
affinity for giving seminars. Next
thing you know, I'm giving presentations
about giving presentations to
people who give presentations for a living.
Dana: What are the top three challenges
that people who use PowerPoint
experience when it comes to giving an
effective presentation?
Rick: Hmm, I can only pick three? That's not
very sporting.
Dana: Well maybe they'll buy your
book if
these three are really good!
Rick: Okay then! The first has to be the
phenomenon in which
use of PowerPoint makes a
presenter less intelligent, not more.
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