Presidential Seal imageLast week, President Obama delivered the annual State of the Union speech. It was widely discussed in the US media and Steve Ballmer also referred to it in a subsequent Microsoft Employee Town Hall. What made the speech so good?

Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint, has done a short analysis of the "We Do Big Things" part of the president's speech. He illustrates the 5 storytelling principles that President Obama used, and then explains how you can use the same principles in your presentations.

-- Mary Sobczyk, for the PowerPoint blog team