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« Previous EntriesHow to Improve Interaction in Online Meetings
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Are you fed up with Death by PowerPoint online meetings? Are you frustrated by rampant multi-tasking, rather than great participation in your meeting? In your online meetings, have you found that participation, interaction, and collaboration have ground to a screeching halt? Such is the culture of virtual meetings all over […]
PowerPoint Bullets: How To Do Away With Them
Monday, July 21st, 2008As a result of some well publicized criticism and the personal experience of millions of audience members, bulleted text has the reputation for being boring.
As soon as people see a slide with nothing but bulleted text, they imagine a long presentation containing nothing but lines and lines of text following bullets, and they tune […]
PowerPoint Presentations: Tips To Avoid Last Minute Surprises
Monday, July 14th, 2008The PowerPoint tips featured here are not about creating better or more effective presentations, instead they help you avoid any last minute surprises that may crop up when an eager audience is waiting to see your slide show.
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On Beyond PowerPoint
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Snooze-inducing business slide shows aren’t going away; in fact, emerging ways to share presentations online may make them even more pervasive. But thanks to some flashy new tools, presentations are getting easier to sit through and less onerous to create. New software, much of it running on the Web, lets you compose and distribute […]
Ten PowerPoint Presentation Mistakes
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Download this PowerPoint file
This program describes the primary mistakes made in Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
Reinventing the PowerPoint Presentation
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Pop quiz time. Which
doesn’t belong on
the following list of
business tools:
mimeograph; overhead
projector; flip chart;
PowerPoint? Actually,
it’s a trick question.
None of the items belong–
not in today’s
sensory-straining world of
technology-based
marketing. It’s a
ubiquitous piece of
business software, but
let’s face it:
Microsoft PowerPoint, now
17 years old, is dull. Bullet
points, cheesy graphics,
and bland templates
can’t compete with
Flash animation, streaming
video, and the bells and
whistles used to add
excitement to business
presentations and sales
pitches. Who hasn’t
nodded off during a
PowerPoint pie-chart
parade? But don’t
PowerPoint Principles for Education
Friday, June 13th, 2008Most advice about using Microsoft PowerPoint is geared toward business users. Experts speak of creating presentations that entertain and motivate, while acknowledging that listeners can only absorb a small amount of information in one sitting.
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Fuuny but True PowerPoint Do Nots
Thursday, June 12th, 2008Slides with too much information, too many bullet points, animations, or bizarre color schemes force people to focus on your presentation and not you. Remember you are giving the presentation, not the screen. This video funny, but it’s also offers incredibly useful information.
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Why PowerPoint Rules the Business World
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008In many organizations, the beginning and end of any business activity is marked by the PowerPoint presentation.
In the early stages of an initiative, PowerPoint is used in strategy sessions, to present proposals and put forth plans. Later, it’s used for updates and progress reports. In the final stages, it’s used to report back and […]
When It’s Time to Drop the PowerPoint and Tell a Story
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008If you want to ensure you get across the key points in a presentation, you could throw data at people in the form of PowerPoint graphs and charts . . .
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