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.

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 to

The PollEverywhere online service instantly tabulates audience survey results in chart form in your PowerPoint presentation. I used PollEverywhere in class earlier this week -- it took me only a few minutes to craft a few cheeky surveys using the service. Downloading the poll as a PowerPoint slide (ppt or pptx) was a smooth, one-click operation. Your audience has the technology. They're carrying smart phones.

How to Change the World A practical blog for impractical people. « A Brief History of Mine | Main | Resolution Assistance » December 30, 2005 The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint I suffer from something called Ménière’s disease—don’t worry, you cannot get it from reading my blog. Before there is an epidemic of Ménière’s

Expressing an idea visually as well as verbally makes it more likely that the audience will understand it and remember it. If you have a hard time trying to think of a metaphor simply type the concept you want to illustrate into the search engine of a stock photo website (eg: istockphoto ) and it will serve up lots of ideas. Maps and spatial diagrams Only a few presentations will need a map to show where things are, but spatial diagrams take the It’s called the Assertion-Evidence Format and it was developed by Professor Michael Alley (I’ve mentioned it previously but somehow never devoted a whole post to it).

I'm building a PowerPoint for a client who will be speaking at a conference this summer. That way, each individual idea stands out on its own. Whether you click on each sentence to make it "fly in" or click on each slide to advance it, each idea takes the same amount of time to talk about. So if you think that cramming multiple She asked me in several places to put multiple points on one slide and have them "fly in" as she clicked the remote. My suggestion to her was to put each point on its own slide with its own image.

"What would you like to see in PowerPoint design in 2009?" That's what Olivia Mitchell, who writes the fantastic Speaking About Presenting blog, asked me last month. Lots of great ideas!) My PowerPoint design wishes for 2009? The look and feel of social media techniques will transition into PowerPoint design. So what might this kind of PowerPoint design look like? Now, Olivia didn't ask just me: she also acted as community organizer, posing the question to a plethora of presentation bloggers. She asked us to write one post on this topic.

Many people echoed the idea that the slides should support the message, not the presenter supporting the slides. It is imperative that presenters get training on the basics of communicating a clear message and presentation skills in order to understand that PowerPoint should just be a tool to support their message, not the message itself. Presenters not being prepared The second most commented area was presenters who were not prepared either on the topic or the slides. I’ve already reported on what audiences find most annoying based on the survey completed by 548 people.

The PowerPoint Revolution continues! don’t believe that there is anything inherently wrong with PowerPoint, but it has undoubtedly become the software program everyone loves to hate.   For instance, American-born statistician and Yale Professor Edward Tufte wrote a popular essay denouncing PowerPoint’s ability to provide quality analytics. Every few months another contender appears in the marketplace, attempting to poke a hole in the thick skin of the 800 lb slideware-gorilla that dominates meeting rooms across the globe. I

always mention Microsoft’s online library of images that is accessible through PowerPoint, stock photography sites such as istockphoto.com and pictures you take yourself. Here are just a few ideas. And if you want to show people at work, some of these photos will be just what you need. Photos are one of the powerful ways to communicate our ideas. In almost every workshop that I do, someone asks where you can get great photos to use in your presentation. I