Michael Hyatt posted a phenomenal tip for all speakers presenting onto a projection screen using laptops (that's his use case, there may be others that you can test). Damn, I wish I had known about this little technique yesterday. You can be sure that I'll be using this in Chicago @ the last AMA HotTopic Blog Seminar.

The tip is this: PowerPoint’s has a built-in “Presenter View.” This enables you to display your slides through the projector as usual while simultaneously viewing the slide on the projector, your upcoming slides, your notes, and a timer—all on your laptop. It took about 60 seconds to setup. Here’s how Michael did it.

Just make sure your PPT doesn't have video in it, as it will try to play in both screens, eating up all your processor & video card power, and then some.

Or better yet use Keynote and a Powerbook - it would only take you one click to do the same thing.

The tip is a great one, as a presentation strategist, I believe (hope like hell) that this tool will allow speakers to remove their text from the slides and thus stop spamming their audience.

Even as a mac advocate I would still suggest PowerPoint over Keynote, it's all about reducing your marin for errror, everyone has PowerPoint, if anything happens to your machine you're up-and-running in secs. No-one needs fancy transitions anyway - keynote offers gimmiks, not presentation tools...!