Today's the day to start submitting your favorite presentations for a chance to win a trip to Palm Springs to attend TEDActive. The contest is a part of SlideFest, an effort to show you how to create a great presentation, and how to create a lousy presentation, with tips to avoid the latter. Like this tip, for instance, about the common practice of over-using bullet points:

And here's an eye-opening post, especially in these tough economic times - it seems that employers more and more want potential job candidates to create and deliver a presentation in addition to going through a standard job interview. If you're interviewing, SlideFest's tenets can surely help.

-- Erik Jensen