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Maybe you’ve been in a conference room when an earnest co-worker dims the lights and fires up a PowerPoint presentation. If the lights were on, this well-meaning individual would see eyes glazing over, as the audience cringes at yet another set of informational graphics, charts, and bullet points…Cascading information from PowerPoint might have its place, but Denning thinks the ability to communicate with people and point them toward the future is just as valuable.
When people are bombarded with information, they sit there looking at you and wondering ‘Who is this suit?’ But when they hear stories they relate to, they realize that you are a human being and they immediately are more engaged.
American business will never replace hard facts as the basis for making decisions. But it can attain desired goals by tapping into the stories we all have and want to share with others.
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Tagged as: Death by PowerPoint, Michael Kinsman, Opinion, Stephen Denning, Storytelling
PresentationPro created one of the first PowerPoint to Flash-based online rich media tools in 2001. The product was released around the same time as PowerPoint 2002 (XP) and did not include support for all the new transitions and animations that the new PowerPoint version introduced.
For this test, we created a single slide presentation that consists of several AutoShapes with varying transparency levels. All AutoShapes have entry, emphasis, and exit animations.
Learn how PowerCONVERTER XP fared.
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Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Flash, PresentationPro, Review
We’ve all endured them – PowerPoint presentations that drone on forever. I call this “Death by PowerPoint”. At the end of this release, learn more about how to get your free PowerPoint First Aid Kit via email.
Again, presentations should always start with “Why this is important to you (the audience)”.
I can’t emphasize enough that if you want to succeed as a leader, you must master the art of group presentation. If you just aren’t comfortable with it, there is only one way to cure your discomfort; do as many presentations as possible! Comfort and an air of controlled self-confidence will only come from experience. The more you avoid developing your presentation skills, the heavier this anchor will become on your career.
Read more by Rob Waite at the eMediaWire site.
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Tagged as: Death by PowerPoint, Opinion, Rob Waite
This more competitive software from Apple might finally get Microsoft to overhaul PowerPoint, and might also get Microsoft and the developers of other Windows-based productivity packages to rethink their software design. And that could lead to more innovation than we’ve seen in office suites for a long, long time.
Michael J. Miller discusses more on the PC Magazine site.
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Tagged as: iWork, Michael J Miller, Opinion, PowerPoint
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