(A) Presentation Zen both the book (that came out recently) and the blog: http://www.presentationzen.com/ http://www.presentationzen.com/ and Beyond Bullet Poin

(A) Presentation Zen both the book (that came out recently) and the blog: http://www.presentationzen.com/ http://www.presentationzen.com/ and Beyond Bullet Points, http://beyondbulletpoints.com/ http://beyondbulletpoints.com/ the book and online seminars. Yes, both of them are primarily focused on "static" presentations, however the focus on the telling a good story through your demonstration is the point. In presenting Krugle at DEMO06 (and winning a DEMOGod award, woohoo!), the biggest failing we saw in many of the other presentations was the fact that the "story" was a confusing, convoluted mess. (B) Spend a lot more time building and practicing your presentations/demonstrations than you think. Video yourself is great if you can do it but just standing up and actually running through the entire presentation/demo repeatedly goes a long ways. (C) For online/web demos, I always build a completely usable, static presentation (in Keynote/PowerPoint) using lots of e.g., diagrams and screenshots so that the presentation still works for the audience even if the network/server is down/slow. (D) Have a personality -- and bend it towards your audience. I.e., a presentation needs to be engaging/interesting to the audience. I.e., think at least as much about entertaining (in the best possible way) as you do about being e.g., informative. (E) Have fun! Hope this helps, John