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I just read this inspiring article by Max Kalehoff on how conferences can be made better. It doesn’t look like you to need to do much to make attendees happy; and yet many conference organizers won’t even do that much!
And yes, I did observe Max’s comment on halting PowerPoint abuse: I’m shocked at how many conferences will charge thousands of dollars for a ticket and then subject attendees to boring presentations made excruciating by PowerPoint abuse.
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Tagged as: Case Studies, Conferencing, Delivery, PowerPoint
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It’s true that there are several amazing examples of PowerPoint usage that up the ante on what you can do with slideware — and it is equally true that the slides that most presenters come up with do almost nothing to help their presentations since these slides tend to confuse rather than help an audience.
That’s the reason why Jean-luc Doumont’s podcast on Creating Effective Presentations provides you with several interesting observations. Although Doumont has not come up with something I haven’t heard before, the fact that he explains this so well, and in such a small podcast is something I’ll call awesome.
Hear and download the podcast here.
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SmartDraw today announced that Virginia Tech has selected SmartDraw software for business graphics. According to Phil Lambert, Technology Business, and Contract Analyst with Virginia Tech, SmartDraw will be available university-wide to help faculty, staff, and students create polished, professional charts and graphics in minutes.
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The folks at PC World recently created the same presentation in both PowerPoint 2008 for the Mac and Apple’s Keynote 08 — the results make interesting reading. There’s no clear winner, but PowerPoint 2008 may have surpassed Keynote 08 in several areas.
Read more on the PC World site.
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Christian Lund-Sørensen is co-owner and serves as Managing Director at SkabelonDesign. He is responsible for all international activities in the company and also focus on strategic development of the company. Prior to joining SkabelonDesign, he careered in the media business serving as sales executive and strategic analyst. Christian is a PowerPoint utility expert and has advised a large number of global companies in productivity optimization and brand control in PowerPoint. Apart from SkabelonDesign Christian is co-owner in two other Danish software companies.
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