I do a fair amount of presentations to professional and community groups. I do my own PowerPoint(TM) presentations; however, I will be the first to admit that sometimes they are uninspired. A year or so ago I attended a three-day legal seminar in San Francisco and many of the presenters used PowerPoint. After two days of dry, boring PowerPoint, Professor Samuel A. Donaldson from the University of Washington blew us all away with a PowerPoint presentation that supplemented his speech with sound effects and talking characters from The Simpsons to demonstrate tax issues relating to when to use an S-Corporation, C-Corporation, or an LLC. I recently came across what I believe to be one of the best blogs on professional and creative presentations – PresentationZen.com. The blog author, Garr Reynolds, is a former Apple Manager of Worldwide User Group Relations, and now is a professor of Management at Kansai Gaidai University in Japan. His recent review of a presentation of D-PAN‘s video was quite favorable, and the video provides an idea of how a message can be effectively presented in a simple and powerful (and beautiful) way. I will be visiting Presentation Zen frequently, and especially just before my next presentation. Enjoy the video clip.