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Monday, November 2, 2009
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 .
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
There’s a revolution in the design of PowerPoint slides, but not the delivery.
Here are five methods that will make the delivery of your PowerPoint presentation stand out.
stay silent while the audience takes the slide in. start talking again when I can see that the majority of Most speakers still rely on their slides to cue them. They click, they talk, click, talk, click, talk…
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience. 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. Gradually tools are being developed to make it easier for you as the presenter to manage the backchannel.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Chris tested the effects of using two different types of PowerPoint slides in a presentation. The audience member has to read the words on the slide and listen to the presenter at the same time, leading to overloading of the language areas whilst leaving the visual cortex with very little to do:
Since you can’t control the audience’s visual attention, it’s all about controlling what visual information you make available at any given moment, and minimising what At last, we have some scientifically rigorous evidence to show that slides full of bullet-points don’t work.
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Monday, May 18, 2009
With all the recent emphasis on the design of your PowerPoints (Keynote for the Mac), it's time to revisit the fact that your visuals are NOT your presentation. think that the emphasis on PowerPoints (we'll call them PP for brevity) is because 2008 WAS a great year for great design with the publication of Garr Reynolds' book "Presentation Zen" and Nancy Duarte's "slide:ology" (both still best sellers on Amazon.) You and your Point of View are the centerpiece. I
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
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.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
thought that it helped members of my audience focus on the slide element that I was talking about.
Research carried out by Stephen Mahar, Ulku Yaylacicegi and Thomas Janicki found that students who were shown an animated PowerPoint slideshow learnt less than those that saw a non-animated slideshow.
When I first read of the research on Science Daily Could PowerPoint presentations be stifling learning? I thought that simple, non-distracting animations that brought in slide elements one at a time as I verbally introduced them was helpful. I
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
need something to keep the audience awake.”
If the cartoon is at a tangent to the topic, it may remove your audience’s focus away from you and your message. You risk losing attention with each audience member going off into their own daydream provoked by the cartoon. For example, including this Dilbert strip in a presentation about creating better PowerPoint I was reviewing a technical presentation for a client. The topic was the latest dental procedures.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Use emotion to connect to your audience. Their audiences seem seduced by the glamorous design of the presentation -- or the pleasing, popular personality of the presenter. Using social media tools like Twitter , you can play a game of "Logical Fallacy Bingo" as you watch slick presenters play fast and loose with the rules of logic. Here's how to play: Just for grins, let's cover some examples of logical fallacies that we often hear about PowerPoint -- the tool many love to hate. It's important. Got it!
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
In preparation for her talk she asked me if there would be a way to reproduce an exercise called “Speaker & Audience Mapping” that she usually leads in the slideology workshops . The exercise goes like this: the audience picks one of a dozen different audience types (eg. Now, we expected a large crowd (we had over 200 attend this workshop) and we knew that Last month Nancy Duarte spoke at Web2.0 Expo and it was a huge success.
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