#189. PrezThanking 2025: What we’re thankful for (and how it can help you too)

Our third annual installment of “PrezThanking” brings you a Spice Cabinet brimming with presentation resources, tech tips, people to follow and highlights from this year in recording.

Dig in with your pie and ice cream to this short n spicy episode.

What’s in the Spice Cabinet?

Presentation TOOLS n TIPS we’re thankful for 

• Riverside technology! NOT AN AD but we’re loving it

• Audacity - forever free recording tool

• Figma Slides - it keeps growing! 

• LIVE EDIT PowerPoint files in Dropbox - we use this hack all the time

• Data visualization is more important than ever in the age of AI

• TED Talkin’: Ben Wellington’s NYC data story (Episode #174)

• Dr. Steven Franconeri tells data stories—and you can too

• (Episode #176)

• GhostRanch YouTube QuickTip Tutorial Series! Created by Technical Director Steve Sheets

• Don’t forget to GROUP objects!

Presentation PEOPLE we’re thankful for

• Jay Schwedelson - email marketing Guru and founder of Guru Conference

• Tom Fishburne’s “Marketoonist” cartoons

• Ivan Wanis Ruiz - Presentation Coach & Founder of Public Speaking Lab

• Krislam Chin - employing and enabling the next generation!! Looking for a career in design? Check her out Hello World Studio

• Hayley Landsdorf for doodling by hand (not AI! Her clients particularly seek her out for this). Consider a “live scribe” at your next event! Thoughts Drawn Out

• Cameron Magee for our “Some Guy from the Crew” series - founder of avad3, the AV and event production company

• Hattie the PMM - If you’re a product marketer, follow her immediately! 

• Making marketing magic with Jimi Gibson (Episode #175) - the magician POV you didn’t’ know you needed for marketing

Presentation BOOKS we’re thankful for

• Say it Well - Terry Szuplat

• Presence - Amy Cuddy

Shoutouts!

• John Harton, our amazing editor bringing our mic settings in sync

• NoNo Flores, our episode illustrator giving our ideas visual life