Visual Design Resources:
- Typography
- Free Fonts
- Colorlovers
- Kuler (Adobe Color Tool)
- Design principles
- Design thinking
- Problem Solving
- Presentation Design
- Visual Storytelling
- Science of design
- Consulting Techniques
- Internships
- Lifelong learning
Articles on Presentations, Creativity/Design Thinking, and Training
- “The Power of Design” in Business Week
- Harvard Business Review on Design Thinking
Books on Presentations, Creativity/Design Thinking, and Training
- Slideology, by Nancy Duarte
- Presentation Zen, by Garr Reynolds
- A Whole New Mind, by Dan Pink
- Conceptual Blockbusting, by James L Adams
- Creativity in Business, by Michael Ray
- The Art of Innovation, by Tom Kelley
- Ten Faces of Innovation, by Tom Kelley
- Books by Viz Think Thought leaders
Topics to be covered | Other Resources Coming Soon (TBA)
- Design Principles (simplicity, white space, rule of 3s)
- Professional Certification
- Cultural and industry trends
- Storytelling/Storytelling in business
- Entrepreneurship blogs
- Innovation and creativity blogs
- Brain fitness blogs
- data dashboards
- smart, strategic, and creative uses of powerpoint
- smart, strategic, and creative uses of Slideshare, delicious, etc.
Speech Communication 2.0 Syllabus 
An article on data from the NYT which might be worth checking out:
Here are an article from Forbes which might be interesting:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorgan/2011/06/13/10-things-to-do-instead-of-power-point/
Another source of inspiration & insight:
http://ideatransplant.com/presentation-design-portfolio/
http://vimeo.com/ideatransplant/videos
Michael M is fantastic on story
http://www.getstoried.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/michaelmargolis
Alpha Chimp has a lot of insight as well as connections in the visual facilitation space:
http://www.alphachimp.com/
Pretty interesting article on public speaking through the lense of the State of the Union:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1811210/state-of-the-union-address-is-ultimate-master-class-in-public-speaking
Cool Website: Visualizing the State of the Union:
http://stateoftheunion.onetwothree.net/
Stanford Graduate School of Business Communication Resources:
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/mastery/resources/
Some speaker links as well from the GSB (some link to actual speeches on speaking well):
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/mastery/beyond_class/speakers.html
A high school syllabus-lite thats interesting.
http://www.kristaprice.com/Krista_Price/Speech_II.html