PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Presenting with PowerPoint: 10 Dos and Don’ts

It can be the very best friend you have, says the Santa Ana, Calif., public relations consultant.

But you have to use it right.

Kerr’s two-sided view of Microsoft’s popular presentation and graphics program mirrors a debate coursing through business and academia. While many embrace the values of PowerPoint as a potent business tool, there are others who contend that it’s a drag on effective interaction — that it confuses, distorts, and even strangles communication.

Jeff Wuorio explains more on the Microsoft site.

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Tagged as: Jeff Wuorio, PowerPoint

Book Extract: How To Do Everything with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003

This book extract from How To Do Everything with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 is an Indezine exclusive with permission from McGraw-Hill/Osborne. The book itself is the ideal resource for anyone who wants to create rich presentations with PowerPoint. You’ll find out how to use all the features of the software and get coverage of key topics, such as creating a well-written outline, the fine points of graphic design, and tips for delivering the presentation in front of an audience.

Read the excerpts here

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Tagged as: Books, Ellen Finkelstein, PowerPoint

Six Trade Secrets For Great Speaking

Here’s an interesting post by Patti Wood, who provides the inside scoop on how to be a great and memorable speaker. She says:

Make the speech about the audience not about you, the content. or data-filled PowerPoint slides. As a presenter, face to face with an audience you have an opportunity to connect with people in a unique way. You can form a relationship with a group, with all its synergy and back and forth flow of questions and ideas. When you connect with an audience you can not only inform them but move them in a way no handout, brochure or manual can. But you must reach out and connect. If you are standing with your back towards your audience reading an endless barrage of detailed slides, you are not creating a magic relationship with your audience.

Learn more from Patti Wood.

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Tagged as: Opinion, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills, Public Speaking

Showtime Follies

The PowerPoint road show presentation lives on, despite maltreatment of the art form by occasionally clueless presenters. By comparison, an all-video presentation is too costly to create for all but a handful of high-value events. At the other extreme, winging it in public without any visuals could cost you a chance to underscore your important points.

Bill Howard explains more on the PC Magazine site.

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Tagged as: Delivery, Opinion, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills

Next Slide Please, Wirelessly

Business travelers have a new wireless gadget for meetings: the RemotePoint Global Presenter from Interlink Electronics. Recently upgraded to the 2.4-gigahertz international standard, this palm-size controller can be used to run a PowerPoint presentation from a PC up to 100 feet, or 30 meters, away.

More on the International Herald Tribune site.

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Tagged as: Hardware, Interlink Electronics, Remotes