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April 2007
- PowerPoint Tools And Presentation Design News - April 30th, 2007
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Michael Pick -- April 30
- PowerPoint Techniques: Create An Animated, Revolving Globe In PowerPoint
In this step-by-step tutorial PowerPoint expert Ellen Finkelstein, author of How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, helps you to create an impressive animated globe to use in your PowerPoint presentations. Here's how: Here's a trompe l'oeil effect of the earth revolving. I learned this in Flash and have been trying to reproduce it in PowerPoint for a while. It doesn't look as nice in PowerPoint, because Flash's...
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Ellen Finkelstein -- April 27
- PowerPoint Tools And Presentation Design News - April 26th, 2007
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Michael Pick -- April 26
- Web Presentation Tools And Services For Visual Communication: The Best From Sharewood n°34
Today's hand-picked selection gives you four ways to get your presentation up and running on the web. I have two solutions that will take and transform your PowerPoint files into multimedia web presentations, and two more that will give you an excellent way to share your photos and images, either as an album, or as an embeddable slideshow. Let me know what you think of them. Photo credit: Elnur Amikishiyev...
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Robin Good -- April 25
- Presentation Delivery: Keep Your Examples Sharp And To The Point - TJ Walker Video
There are times in life when being vague and fuzzy in your speaking is of great advantage. Your boss might want to know what you've been doing for the last three hours, and you don't want to tell her that you were chatting to your friend on AIM. Your partner might choose a particularly horrific outfit and ask you what you think. Being vague in these situations is probably in...
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TJ Walker -- April 24
- PowerPoint Tools And Presentation Design News - April 23rd, 2007
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Michael Pick -- April 23
- PowerPoint Presentation Design - Why You Need To Know About Aspect Ratio
When you're putting together PowerPoint presentations the most important things are to keep it simple, and keep it visual. But the finer details can really make or break the impact of your slides. By letting certain things slide, such as maintaining the aspect ratio of your photos and graphics, all of your hard work can be undone instantaneously - giving even the best looking slides a real lack of professionalism....
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ProPoint Graphics Editors -- April 20
- PowerPoint Tools And Presentation Design News - April 19th, 2007
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Michael Pick -- April 19
- Web Presentation Tools And Services For Visual Communication: The Best From Sharewood n°33
In today's line-up of visual communication tools and services, I have focused on ways that you can take a handful of images or video files and combine them into great looking slideshows, or even picture books. It just gets easier to publish your visuals, and this hand-picked selection is no exception to the rule. Photo credit: Rafael Angel Irusta Machin Free web-based service allows you to turn all of your...
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Robin Good -- April 18
- Presentation Delivery: Dealing With Someone Else's Terrible Slides - TJ Walker Video
Sometimes you have no choice. For all of your impeccable taste and flair in the world of visual communication, you find yourself landed with someone else's terrible slides. Maybe a colleague thinks they're doing you a real favour and saving you some time. This is the kind of gift that nobody wants to receive. Photo credit: scubabarte And then you look at the slides, and they are filled with hundreds...
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TJ Walker -- April 17
- PowerPoint Tools And Presentation Design News - April 16th, 2007
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Michael Pick -- April 16
- Web Presentations Go Interactive With Vuvox
Navigating your way around online presentations has long been a standardized affair. You look at a slide, you click on the next button, you look at another slide. If you want to guide your audience through a linear experience, like that of a PowerPoint presentation, that works out just fine. But what do you do if you want to give your viewers a non-linear experience? Maybe you want them to...
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Michael Pick -- April 13
- PowerPoint Tools And Presentation Design News - April 12th, 2007
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Michael Pick -- April 12
- Web Presentation Tools And Services For Visual Communication: The Best From Sharewood n°32
I have a great collection of hand-picked web applications for you today, all geared up to boosting your presentation and visual communication productivity. If you want to create beautiful looking presentations and video-photo mash-ups, I urge you give a look to Vuvox, which I reviewed in full earlier this week. On top of that I have an easy way to get your PowerPoint slides online, a simple solution for sharing...
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Robin Good -- April 11
- Presentation Delivery: Blasting Your Nervousness Away - TJ Walker Video
Getting nervous before a presentation is totally natural, and many of us fear that our nerves might ruin an otherwise good speech. But in today's video tutorial from speaking expert TJ Walker, originally published on The Speaking Channel, this idea is turned on its head. Photo credit: Andres Rodriguez It isn't your nerves ruining your presentation, but rather your presentation ruining your nerves. Dishing out some tough love, TJ Walker...
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TJ Walker -- April 10
- PowerPoint Tools And Presentation Design News - April 9th, 2007
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Michael Pick -- April 9
- Presentation Design Tips: When To Use Animation
Adding animation to your presentations can help to bring your slides to life, if done with discretion. On the other hand, overdoing it can make an uninteresting presentation tacky and needlessly cluttered. In this short article from ProPoint Graphics you can find out about the vital difference between the two. What makes for effective use of animation in a presentation, and when is it little more than a distraction? Here...
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ProPoint Graphics Editors -- April 6
- PowerPoint Tools And Presentation Design News - April 5th, 2007
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Michael Pick -- April 5
- Web Presentation Tools And Services For Visual Communication: The Best From Sharewood n°31
I have a mixed grab bag of web presentation and visual communication tools today, bringing you the best of the new breed of web applications changing how we work online. It is now possible to convert any number of file types for free, from an online application, edit and store pictures from your browser, and even preview and select design color schemes without ever having to boot up any program...
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Robin Good -- April 4
- Presentation Delivery: How To Silence Those Ums and Errs - TJ Walker Video
It's easy to punctuate your speech with 'ums' and 'errs', and can feel like one of the hardest things in the world to avoid. Sometimes, watching yourself giving a presentation on video can be enlightening as to just how often many of us fall prey to these paralinguistic ticks. Photo credit: Dennis Owusu-Ansah But there are ways around it, and I don't just mean that you need to rehearse more....
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TJ Walker -- April 3
- PowerPoint Tools And Presentation Design News -April 2nd, 2007
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Michael Pick -- April 2
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