In my post 10 tools for presenting with Twitter , I lamented that there was no easy-to-use way of posting tweets from within PowerPoint. has now created an add-in for PowerPoint 2004 and 2007 which does just that. Go to Timo’s PowerPoint Twitter page to download the add-in. Timo Elliott of SAPWeb2.0 It’s called AutoTweet .

Time for the free Christmas PowerPoint template link roundup: First, Get Your Christmas Lyrics. Paste the lyrics into PowerPoint, and you're set to lead the chorus. Next, Download Christmas PowerPoint Templates. All sorts of free Christmas PowerPoint Template madness abounds online. Oh, the Christmas season is upon us yet again. You can find lyrics to your favorite Christmas carols online.

Back in August, these four online videos showed us how to embed YouTube videos into PowerPoint presentations. And while these "summer of 2007" instructions still work, today, there's an even easier way... Enter the autumn of 2007. That was August. Microsoft MVP Shyam Pillai offers a PowerPoint Add-In called YouTube Video Wizard , or YTV.

I asked the group where they are with their current PowerPoint approach, and where they would like to be, and they came up with this list: Today, our current approach to PowerPoint is: - Overloading our audiences with too much information - Throwing in everything but the kitchen sink - Just doing a data dump - Usually not communicating a good story - Being too generic - one deck fits all - Not succeeding at helping an audience remember key messages - Creating decks that don't get used, or just one or two slides are pulled - Not producing a crisp communication package Where would

Although the book updates BBP for PowerPoint 2007, even if you have PowerPoint 2003 you'll still find the book a signficant resource to guide you through the BBP process. I'm pleased to announce that the latest edition of Beyond Bullet Points has just arrived! The new book is a thorough revision of the first edition, including 7 new presentation examples, expanded explanation of key concepts and many new tips and techniques you can apply to your BBP presentations. Weighing in at 350 pages, the book includes a new CD with a bonus chapter, an updated BBP Story Template

Does it really matter what you put at the top of your PowerPoint slides? That's headline news for those of you using BBP, because the approach requires that you write complete sentences in the story template, which then become the headlines of the frames of your PowerPoint storyboard. (Read Absolutely, according to researcher Michael Alley, who tested two designs for teaching slides on two groups of students -- one design with the conventional category heading at the top, and another with a complete sentence headline at the top. The result?

Many people like to convert Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt If you use Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, you can save your .pptx Now, open a PowerPoint presentation in PowerPoint 2007. Tags: PowerPoint Add-I ppt or .pptx) pptx) presentations to Adobe (.pdf) pdf) documents before posting them on the web or sending them

would love to see more tools available which work within the most common slideware – PowerPoint and Keynote. Both Keynote and PowerPoint have add-ins which allow you to automatically send a tweet when you click on a slide. There is an add-in to do this with PowerPoint 2007 called Slide Tweet , but you need Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio Tools for Office. Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience. Gradually tools are being developed to make it easier for you as the presenter

This is Your Brain on PowerPoint.  When it comes to experiencing a PowerPoint presentation, there's only so much your brain can process. We're seeing more PowerPoint slides with simple images and minimal words. The current PowerPoint design fashion vogue is overly simplistic, and panders almost completely to the right side of the brain. Our brains have 2 lobes. Loosely speaking, the left handles data, facts, and analysis.

PowerPoint 2007’s shadows are so much better than 2003’s. In this video lesson, I show you how to use all the settings. And it’s a contest with free prizes! Listen to the video! Do you prefer video lessons to