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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
On the Road: My Experience Teaching PowerPoint
This is a guest post from Kirk Mossing, PowerPoint™ Consultant and Trainer.
What do Audiences REALLY Think About PowerPoint?
Travelling across the nation and working with clients like Google and Stanford University, I routinely ask my students one key question: “As an And 100% of the time I hear: “There are too many words on a slide.” Followed up with: “I can’t read it.”
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
Many people like to convert Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt pdf) documents before posting them on the web or sending them through email. If you use Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, you can save your .pptx Now, open a PowerPoint presentation in PowerPoint 2007. ppt or .pptx) pptx) presentations to Adobe (.pdf)
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Another player has joined the online PowerPoint sharing space - Slideserve . document sharing)
Empressr
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Flypaper
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Freepath
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Scribd
– [link] (all types of
document document sharing)
SlideBoom
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SlideRocket
– [link]
SlideServe
- [link]
Slideshare
– [link]
SlideSix
– [link]
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Slides 0160; The service is similar to those offered by other players:
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Part 2: The Seven Virtues of Powerful PowerPoint
In part one of this two-part post, we talked about the seven sins of PowerPoint. The 7 Virtues of Powerful PowerPoint:
1. Prepare your material before you design your slides: Many people start their message development by filling in their PowerPoint template. If you missed it, you can read it here .
So now that you know what not to do when preparing your slide deck, here are the seven virtues of what you should do to create informative, entertaining and memorable slides that
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Monday, June 1, 2009
But if you want even more flexibility to write from other places in the room, or to let your audience write on the screen, try Papershow , a more portable solution that works around the shortcomings of white boards and it works with imported PowerPoint presentations.
While PowerPoint has a feature that lets you add notes, it keeps you tied to your computer or keyboard. If you don’t have a Tablet PC to write directly on your slides during a BBP presentation, you can always use a whiteboard as a companion to your screen. What Comes in the Package
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
PowerPoint is a great tool for creating presentations, but it has never been particularly good at creating documentation or handouts. However, it is a huge amount of work to maintain two completely separate sets of documents.
for PowerPoint by Leaders Guide Pro. Enter George! They kindly gave me a free license to play with the product.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
I did this recently during my keynote at the PowerPoint Live conference and I have advocated it for years. With a hyperlink to a Word document, you can capture ideas or brainstorming and have a document that can be e-mailed to everyone immediately after the presentation. As the article suggests, don’t restrict yourself to the features of PowerPoint, such as graphs and images. In Carmine Gallo’s recent BusinessWeek column , he talks about going beyond your slides to create a multi-sensory experience for the audience. He cites author John Medina and his book “Brain
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
So I have a mini-series of posts on what the INSPECT DOCUMENT feature in PPT 2007 can do for you.
Office Button >> Prepare >> Inspect Document
- Here is one of the new features that has been overlooked by most. Some of its functions were possible in prevous versions, some were possible using add-ins. To access:
Office
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Monday, June 1, 2009
I’ve banned flummoxing * PowerPoint.”
This called for decisive action, so Pete banned PowerPoint and gave everyone a limit of a 2 page Word document for all proposals and presentations.
“If You can blame PowerPoint itself, with its little toggle button that goes seductively from ‘Screen Show’ to ‘Pages’. Management Secrets Revealed
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
If you have not discovered how to insert comments in PowerPoint 2007 (it is not on the Insert tab) go to the REVIEW tab and the COMMENTS section.
Open the Property Inspector (OFFICE BUTTON >> PREPARE >> INSPECT DOCUMENT) and the first item is COMMENTS AND ANNOTATIONS.
Comments are fantastic and make revisions much easier when working with clients. Here is my sample slide with a comment added.
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