This blog post was authored by Evonne Heyning, interactive media producer with TechSoup's community and social media team.

Are you looking for secrets to giving great presentations? Whether offering a workshop, giving a keynote speech in your community, or persuading funders in a new campaign, nonprofit leaders require strong presentation skills — from designing amazing slides and visuals to listening to your audience as you share your ideas.

Our next episode of Nonprofits Live on August 26 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time will explore great presentations. We invited a mix of nonprofit communications and technology speakers to offer their visual communication tips, insights on delivering with mastery, and listening through social media back-channels.

Our featured speakers include:

• Kivi Leroux Miller, speaker, writer, and the president of the Nonprofit Marketing Guide
• Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership
• Nat Robinson, vice president of SlideRocket, who provides insight into cloud collaboration for virtual teams sharing their work online. Expect an hour rich with resources, ideas, secrets from the experts, and links to great technology tools offering everything you need to give a great presentation.

Bring your questions for this one-hour interactive event hosted online at TechSoup.org, and use #NPLive to connect on Twitter. Nonprofits Live is produced and hosted by Evonne Heyning for TechSoup as a recurring online series on topics in nonprofit technology.

Watch the recorded event on TechSoup!

Speakers

Kivi Leroux Miller
Kivi Leroux Miller (@kivilm) is president of Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com and author of "The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause" (Jossey-Bass, 2010).

Through training, coaching and consulting, she helps small nonprofits and communications departments of one make a big impression with smart, savvy marketing and communications.

She teaches a weekly webinar series and writes a leading blog on nonprofit communications at Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com. She also presents highly rated workshops and keynotes on a variety of nonprofit marketing topics around the country.

More than 2,500 nonprofits in 50 states, across Canada, and in more than two dozen countries have participated in Kivi's webinars.

After many years in the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, DC, she now lives in rural North Carolina with her husband, two young daughters, two cats, a dog, and countless backyard wildlife. She enjoys writing, volunteering, hiking, vegetarian cooking, and teaching her kids how to bake.

Rik Panganiban

Rik (@rikomatic) has over 15 years of experience as a nonprofit organizer and educator using digital media to increase public engagement on important global issues, from the International Criminal Court to Internet Governance to the Millenium Development Goals.

He currently manages the online community of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. Prior to that, he was the assistant director of the Online Leadership Program at Global Kids, where he spearheaded innovative education projects using virtual worlds, games, and social media, targeting at-risk youth.

In 2007, Rik authored a report on "Best Practices for Nonprofits in Second Life," still one of the definitive resources for public sector organizations working in virtual worlds.

He also runs the website http://betterverse.org, a chronicle of the public good applications of virtual worlds for nonprofits, education and government.

Nat Robinson

Nat Robinson (@natrobinson) is the vice president of marketing and business development for SlideRocket and was the company's first employee. He's also a founding partner of SkyFarm Communications and executive producer at Front Ave. Productions.

Robinson has over 19 years of information technology and marketing experience including a 13 year tenure at Oracle Corporation in a variety of sales and marketing roles most recently as the vice president of corporate marketing where he led the company's global marketing programs. Nat started with Oracle as a sales consultant in New Zealand where he was born.

Nat is also a private pilot, an ASA bareboat captain, SSI advanced diver, and keen surfer.