PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

An Interview with Dave Gray

Cliff Atkinson interviewed Dave Gray of xPlane, the ‘visual thinking company’.

Dave is an award-winning visual journalist and author of Selling to the VP of NO: Secrets of the Selling Stars, a visual learning book.

Read this interview here.

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New OneNote Site from Kathy Jacobs

Kathy Jacobs has put up a new site on Microsoft’s OneNote program. Do take a look and learn more about how OneNote can help you stay more organized – and how far notes can go.

Here’s OneNote Answers.

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Microsoft Office 2004 Demo

Join lead program manager, Kris Barton, on a guided tour through some of the powerful new features coming soon in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac.

Look here.

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The Cognitive Load of PowerPoint: Interview with Richard E Mayer

Many people have opinions about PowerPoint, but few can speak on the topic with the authority of Richard E. Mayer, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Named the most prolific researcher in the field of educational psychology, Rich is the author of 18 books and more than 250 articles and chapters. His 12 years of research in multimedia learning and problem-solving have important implications for PowerPoint users.

Richard was interviewed by Cliff Atkinson, who is an author, speaker, and consultant who translates complex ideas into communications that get results. Cliff is also the author of the bestselling Beyond Bullet Points, published in four editions by Microsoft Press.

Read Cliff Atkinson’s interview with Richard Mayer here.

Books by Richard E Mayer and Cliff Atkinson

• Multimedia Learning 2nd Edition by Richard E. Mayer
• Applying the Science of Learning by Richard E. Mayer
• Beyond Bullet Points: Using PowerPoint to Tell a Compelling Story That Gets Results (4th Edition) by Cliff Atkinson
• The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever

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Really Bad PowerPoint, Revisited

Seth Godin is the author of five books that have been bestsellers around the world and changed the way people think about marketing, change and work. He was recently chosen as one of “21 Speakers for the Next Century” by Successful Meetings and is consistently rated among the very best speakers by the audiences he addresses.

As you can expect, Seth has a few things to say about PowerPoint to Cliff Atkinson, especially since his 2001 e-book Really Bad PowerPoint (and How to Avoid It), was an Amazon bestseller.

Cliff Atkinson interviews Seth Godin.

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