PowerPoint gets as much criticism as it does limelight in the world of presentations. We tell people we are preparing a PowerPoint presentation, or bemoan how boring a colleagues PowerPoint was earlier this afternoon. But PowerPoint done well should not be center stage - it should ...
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 ...
PowerPoint makes it very easy to create a whole range of animated builds that slowly animate your text and let you release information click by click. But just because you can use them, it doesn't mean that you should.
In today's short video speaking and presentation expert ...
It is now easier than ever to get your presentation online and share it over the Internet. Services including the recently reviewed SPresent, and the hugely popular Slideshare make web delivery straightforward and simple.
But a presentation is more than the sum of its slides. In this ...
How many times have you spent hours preparing a PowerPoint presentation, making it look a million dollars, only for the audience to miss the point entirely? In today's video speaking expert TJ Walker reminds you of an important fact:
You are not Stephen Spielberg.
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How reliant are you on PowerPoint to make your presentation truly come to life? Speaking expert TJ Walker presents us with a perhaps frightening idea: great PowerPoint presentations work even in a power cut. That's right - as in, without a computer.
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''Do one thing at a time.'' So says speaking expert TJ Walker in today's PowerPoint presentation advice video.
Too often, when giving a presentation, we are trying to do too much, and asking too much at our audience. Speaking, flicking through slides, doling out notes and hand ...
The backlash against PowerPoint, whereby people swear off using it and bemoan its failings as a program, is fast becoming a tired routine. It's very easy to blame the tools if you're bad at something, and presentations are no exception.
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Powerpoint doesn't make bad presentations. People ...
In this review of the forthcoming PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint expert Ellen Finkelstein guides you through the key features and additions to this long awaited update.
I've been working hard on updating my PowerPoint book, which will be called How to Do Everything with Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007. ...
Here is another great video tutorial (4':09") from speaking expert TJWalker, highlighting the importance of not reading from your own PowerPoint slides.
When I think of it, I always come to the same conclusion: this issue originates from people creating PowerPoint presentations that are nothing but ...
