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. d love to see some more development on an easy-to-use add-in for PowerPoint. Keynote Tweet. Slide Tweet.

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.  . If companies insist on creating PowerPoint presentations that lack creativity and bore audiences, then they’d better be ready for backlash.  .

don't usually suggest PowerPoint or Keynote "how-to" books, but instead recommend reading books from various design and communication fields to stretch your knowledge and perspective. Connie Malamed's website.  Check out the Before & After website. Steve Krug's website. Books are good, but which ones? Amazon link.).

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. My recommendation is not to import these directly from Excel into PowerPoint. The assertion. The benefits of assertions on slides.

Being a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP is very cool - but it is difficult keeping things to myself, honor the many NDA's, and simply say " I think the next version of PPT is going to be really good. So if you want a sneak peak head over to "The PowerPoint Team Blog" here. Tags: PowerPoint Resource/Misc The link is here.

If you go to the Heath Brothers Website you can sign up to download a 4 page document that further explains their approach to "making presentations that stick". Show Something - not clip art, but communication that supports your story "Bringing Reality into the room". Don't Preamble, Parachute in (grab attention).

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.

I'm about to be interviewed about PowerPoint on the BBC Radio Scotland Business Show. PowerPoint comes to church And there's much more on visual aids in my books! Tags: PowerPoint bbc You should be able to listen again on BBC iPlayer HERE - about 11 minutes in after end of the news and discussion of Scottish pub business.

Really great speaker, super presentation, cool website ( alltop.com ) and nice enough to pose for a photo. Tags: PowerPoint At my meeting last week I was fortunate enough to have Guy Kawasaki as the guest and run his presentation. Troy @ TLC Original post blogged on b2evolution.

But this is the first one to have a PowerPoint add-in (also a Word version). did discover if you run multiple versions of PowerPoint, PPT 2007 needs to be the default setting for installer to run. If you click the SEARCH button an action pane opens that is basically a gateway to the Fotolia website content.