It’s time for a personal confession. My name is Scott Schwertly and I am annoyed. No, I am angry. People can care less about their presentations. Don’t believe me. Look around you! Most of them are lame.

Hence, I have created a personal blog (think of it as an extension of Ethos3) to point out the flaws, weaknesses, and dumb crap that presenters do each and everyday.  It’s a reaction to both Stuff White People Like and Stuff Christians Like so I am calling it Stuff Presenters Like.  In a nutshell, it’s a blog about the good, the bad, and the lame things presenters do everyday.

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It’s here.  ”The Box” presentation is now an iPhone app.  And, here is the good news.  It’s completely free.  You can download it here.

What is “The Box?”  It’s a deck we created for World Vision. You can view it below.
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Times are tough, and we are all feeling the crunch of the economic slowdown. We feel it at the gas pump. We feel it in the aisles at the grocery store. We hear it in the voices of our colleagues and we see it every night on the six o’clock news. So, isn’t about time you got something for free?  Well, we created a “Free Gift” page just for you.

To download your free copy of 10 PowerPoint Design tips, click here.
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We understand that being green is no longer just a fad. It’s the future. That’s why Ethos3 is committed from this day forward to build and design presentations that are more earth friendly. Granted, we know we will have our fair share of challenges ahead of us. Like Kermit said, it’s not easy being green. Thus, here are a few small (and easy!) suggestions on how we plan to keep Kermit’s pad in mind when creating presentations. We encourage you to embrace them as well.

Push Away Paper
The days of a million hand-outs should be over. Ideally the corporate world would eliminate hand-outs altogether, but sometime there isn’t a way around them. If you must print, reduce. Print four slides to a page and make sure you use the front and back each page. To further decrease your printed page count, think long and hard before you print out a draft of your presentation to make corrections. Edit as much as possible on the computer first. Instead of printing out copies for your 17 colleagues, use online presentation sharing sites like SlideShare to elicit their edits and comments.

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