Recommended Texts

Unlike all other texts in the field, which emphasize paper documents and outdated practices, only Bovée and Thill present the full range of electronic media that students will need to know to meet employer expectations.

Business Communication Today,
10th Ed.

Excellence in Business Communication,
9th Ed.

Business Communication Essentials,
4th Ed.
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How These Texts Compare
Is Your Business Communication
Textbook Preparing
Students for the Future
or the Past?
Do You Know the
Fallacies about Teaching
Electronic Media?
Does Your Textbook
Cover Business
Communication 2.0?
Video:
A Fundamental Shift in the
Way We Communicate.
(See the New Media
Covered Only by
Bovee and Thill. Are You
Using the Right Text?)
A Letter to Instructors
Video:
Alert! A Paradigm Shift Is
Impacting Business
Communication Courses
Major Study: Thousands of Companies Using Social Media. Will Your Students Be Prepared to Use Social Media on the Job?
Study: 91% Using Social Media.in the Inc. 500-- America's Fastest Growing Private Companies. (Social Media Should Be Part of Your Course. Only Bovee & Thill's Texts Offer Social Media Coverage.)
Teach Your Students How to Use Social Media on the Job. (See sample pages here of Bovee & Thill's coverage you won't find in any competing texts.)
Business Communication Is Changing Due to Social Media (Are Your Students Learning about These Changes from Your Current Text?)
Hundreds of Social Media Examples
Canadian Editions
Teach Introduction to Business?

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Slide Makeover — Showing Proportion Using a Diagram

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

When we present a proportion or share statistic, I would usually suggest using a pie chart. This makeover shows how a diagram with universal symbols can sometimes be more powerful than a pie chart in helping the audience understand the message.

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Embedding a YouTube Video in Powerpoint

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

This tutorial will teach you how to embed a YouTube video into a Powerpoint presentation.The computer showing the presentation with the embedded video must have an Internet connection and must not block youtube.com in order for this to work.

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Slide Makeover: Explaining Components of a Difference

Friday, February 19th, 2010

When comparing financial figures between two periods, one of the common messages we need to communicate is what makes up the difference between the two figures.
Instead of just pasting an Excel sheet on your slide, use the ideas in this makeover to break down the difference visually and make each component clear to your [...]

Results of the Fourth "Annoying" PowerPoint Survey

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

The message from my biennial survey of what annoys audiences about bad PowerPoint presentations is that audiences are fed up with the overload of text on slides and how that text causes presenters to read the slides to them.
A total of 548 people responded to the survey over a six week [...]

PowerPoint on the Web: A New View of Your Presentation

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Hopefully by now you’ve heard about the new versions of your favorite Microsoft Office applications that are showing up on the web.  A large part of the effort behind Office 2010 has been to bring Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint functionality to SharePoint and Windows Live, enabling a whole new range [...]

Why PowerPoint Isn't Enough

Monday, February 1st, 2010

The brain does not pay attention to boring things. Once you understand this fundamental principle of human learning and retention and apply it, your presentations could become far more engaging.
In an interview with me last year, John Medina, a developmental molecular biologist and the author of Brain Rules, makes the case [...]

Convert PowerPoint to Video

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Why would someone want to convert a PowerPoint presentation to video?

PowerPoint-free: Once your presentation is converted into a video, you do not need anymore to have PowerPoint installed to watch it nor do your recipients, regardless of which hardware or operating system they own.
Multi-platform: Presentations converted into videos can be watched while on the move [...]

Slide Makeover — Showing Forms the Audience Understands

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

As presenters, we regularly need to show our audiences how to fill out forms. In this makeover, a text slide is transformed by showing visuals that explain where to find the form and how to correctly complete it.

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PowerPoint 2007 Tutorial

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

PowerPoint is presentation software that can be used to create slide shows for printing, on-screen projection, or web-based display. This site is designed to help you with PowerPoint [...]

How to Prepare a Pecha Kucha Presentation

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Pecha Kucha was developed as a presentation format to allow design and creative types to share their passions and show off their work.
The format is very tight. You have to present with 20 slides, and each slide is shown for 20 seconds. It has the great advantage of keeping presentations short and concise – [...]

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