Chapter 15

Fast Company—"When Your Presentation Crashes": This site offers sound advice from the "Geek Squad," a company that dispenses on-site emergency responses to computer problems. The squad offers five tips to help speakers avoid PowerPoint problems, multimedia mishaps, and other computer related glitches that could ruin a presentation.

Guidelines for Effective Visual Aids: This is a brief page designed to help speakers who are presenting material at conferences. The advice pertains mainly to using slides as visual aids, but the information is useful and interesting.

KU Medical Center Online Tutorial Series: Tutorials are offered in how to design effective visual aids, including how to create an effective poster presentation. Further links to public speaking sites are provided.

Virtual Presentation Assistant: Using Visual Aids: Sponsored by the University of Kansas, this site provides information on using visual aids, different varieties of visual aids and pointers for constructing effective visual aids. Recommended.