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Powerpoint

Little-used methods to make the delivery of your PowerPoint stand out

May 1, 2009

There’s a revolution in the design of PowerPoint slides, but not the delivery. Most speakers still rely on their slides to cue them. They click, they talk, click, talk, click, talk… Here are five methods that will make the delivery of your PowerPoint presentation stand out. 1. The Reinforce method Most presenters click on the [...]

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PowerPoint Design in 2009: Most promising new technology

January 24, 2009

This is the fourth post in the series guiding you through the 40 contributions to “PowerPoint Design in 2009? The first three posts are: PowerPoint Design in 2009: Does Design Matter? PowerPoint Design in 2009: Develop visual thinking skills PowerPoint Design in 2009: Six most recommended tips Here are the links to all the contributions [...]

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How to make an effective PowerPoint presentation

January 20, 2009

Hi there, if you’ve reached this page by searching on Google for “How to make an effective PowerPoint presentation” you’ll also be interested in my Guide How to make an Effective PowerPoint Presentation. I asked a number of experts for their tips on how to make an effective PowerPoint presentation. Follow these tips and you’ll [...]

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PowerPoint Design in 2009: Develop visual thinking skills

January 16, 2009

This is the second post in the series guiding you through the 40 contributions to “PowerPoint Design in 2009″. In the first post I explored the issue “Does Design Matter?”. And here are the links to the PowerPoint Design in 2009 resources: A list of all the blogposts with a one or two sentence summary [...]

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PowerPoint Slide Design: Does Design Matter?

January 13, 2009

I asked a number of number of experts on powerpoint slide design for their thoughts on whether design matters. There were definite opposing view points. PowerPoint slide design doesn’t matter Andrew Lightheart: In terms of impact, slides have as much impact as the the fonts and the layout of a document. Dave Paradi believes that [...]

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3 reasons to use less stock photos in your presentations

January 9, 2009

Here’s what I would like to see in PowerPoint slide design in 2009 – less stock photos of people. I’m guilty too. Last year I loved istockphoto. It saved me so much time. I loved recommending it to our course participants and showing them how quickly they could find the photo they wanted. My New [...]

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The Top 7 PowerPoint slide designs

January 6, 2009

The PowerPoint revolution has sparked the evolution of different styles of PowerPoint slide design. I’ve identified seven different PowerPoint slide designs to inspire you – do add others in the comments. If you’re just getting started with creating non-bullet point slides, I recommend the assertion-evidence or Presentation Zen style. Then start mixing and matching between [...]

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How to do an agenda slide like Garr Reynolds

December 24, 2008

Garr Reynolds’ slides from his recent webcast are now online. Garr has an innovative agenda slide. He’s transformed what is normally a boring bullet-point slide into something beautiful and effective. Check out slides 7 to 12 for the agenda slide sequence: Slides (in PDF) from Safari Webcast View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: [...]

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New scientific research on memory

December 16, 2008

I love having scientific back-up for the way we do things as presenters. So I subscribe to a number of cognitive science blogs to keep up-to-date. Here are two research studies on memory. The first one backs up what we already know – we’ve got a great memory for visual detail. And the second has [...]