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Nolan Haims has over 20 years of experience in the fields of visual communication, graphic and presentation design. He runs his own boutique consultancy that trains organizations to communicate more clearly and with fewer words. He speaks at national conferences, writes about visual storytelling at PresentYourStory.com, is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP and is one of the hosts of The Presentation Podcast.
Here’s a list of links on Indezine.com where he has been featured:
Survey on Whether Bullet Points Help: Conversation with Nolan Haims
September 22, 2025
Presentation Summit 2025: Conversation with Nolan Haims
August 4, 2025
Presentation Summit 2024: Conversation with Nolan Haims
September 2, 2024
Presentation Summit 2023: Conversation with Nolan Haims
July 19, 2023
Presentation Summit 2022: Conversation with Nolan Haims
May 23, 2022
The Better Deck Deck: Conversation with Nolan Haims
October 25, 2021
Presentation Summit 2021: Conversation with Nolan Haims
July 19, 2021
Presentation Summit 2020: Conversation with Nolan Haims
June 1, 2020
Presentation Summit 2019: Conversation with Nolan Haims
June 27, 2019
Click 2019, the Presentation Design Conference: Conversation with David Blatner
March 4, 2019
TalkTime for PowerPoint: Conversation with Jamie Garroch and Nolan Haims
November 1, 2017
YOUpresent and Nolan Haims Creative Launch Free TalkTime Add-in for PowerPoint
October 27, 2017
Presentation Summit 2017: Conversation with Nolan Haims
August 8, 2017
Animate Bubble Charts in PowerPoint with Morph
February 24, 2017
Presentation Summit 2016: Conversation with Nolan Haims
August 6, 2016
Nolan Haims at the Presentation Summit 2014
October 14, 2014
Outstanding Presentations Workshop 2014: Conversation with Ellen Finkelstein
August 29, 2014
Gradient Boxes and Vignettes
December 7, 2012
Letting Go of the PowerPoint Template
September 5, 2011
Present Your Story: Conversation with Nolan Haims
June 6, 2011
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Jim Harvey is a presentation skills coach and blogger. He’s been a professional speaker for more years than he’d like to remember — and he can help you to craft more successful memorable speeches, pitches, and presentations. Find out about his Fit, Focus and Flair model.
Here’s a list of links on Indezine.com where he has been featured:
Presentation Summit 2016: Conversation with Jim Harvey
September 21, 2016
Do You Need a Corporate PowerPoint Template?
December 12, 2012
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Theme Fonts are font choices that are part of a Theme in PowerPoint or other Microsoft Office programs. Each Theme Font set has two font choices, one for the Heading fonts and another for the Body fonts.
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In PowerPoint, any Theme brings to the table several unique facts such as Theme Fonts, Theme Colors, and Theme Effects, and also Slide Layouts, Backgrounds, etc. When you apply another Theme to your PowerPoint presentation, the changes reflect in all slides in the presentation. Yet, the change is complete, and thus the resulting slides all look consistent.
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Born in England, Nigel Holmes studied illustration at the Royal College of Art in London and then freelanced for magazines and newspapers for 12 years in London before going to New York in 1977 to work for Time Magazine. He became graphics director and stayed there for 16 years. He has written eight books on aspects of information design. With his son Rowland, Holmes makes short animated films. Clients have included the TED conference, Fortune Magazine conferences, Good Magazine and the National Geographic Society.
Here’s a list of links on Indezine.com where he has been featured:
Presentation Summit 2021: Conversation with Nigel Holmes
July 28, 2021
Crazy Competitions: Conversation with Nigel Holmes
November 28, 2018
Nigel Holmes at the Presentation Summit 2015
September 30, 2015
Presentation Summit 2015: Conversation with Nigel Holmes
September 3, 2015
Nigel Holmes at the Presentation Summit 2011
September 20, 2011
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