PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Businessman Silhouettes for PowerPoint – 04

When you are presenting to international audiences, using a picture that distinctly shows a human being of one race may not work too well. People silhouettes are the best options for such situations since they keep the entire look neutral. Here are some businessman silhouettes that are ready to use within your PowerPoint presentation slides. Within the downloaded presentation, you will see these silhouettes on two separate slides, in two color variations: black and white. You can edit these clip art silhouettes further as needed, using PowerPoint’s fills, lines, and effects.

Copy the silhouettes graphics (clip arts) of your choice from the downloaded presentation, and paste them into your PowerPoint presentation slides. All these silhouette graphics can be used and customized with Shape Styles just like any other PowerPoint shape. You can also paste them into a Word document, an Excel worksheet, or any other program.

Download and use this presentation.

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Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

Indezine News: Getting Philosophical

How do events unfold in our lives? That’s the larger picture, and this large picture contains several smaller pictures scattered all over – one of these smaller pictures poses a similar question — about how do our audiences respond to our presentations? And although the larger and the smaller pictures may appear different in size, the questions they pose are essentially so similar!

Audiences respond to us as we respond to them — and that’s exactly how life behaves — all events unfold exactly as we choose to look at them. In between all these nuances of life, we all encounter goof-ups, mistakes, and wonder if we could have presented better at last week’s event? The answer to all these questions is again the same — we just need to let go, and look forward to the next event, and the audience we will present to. The presenter and the audience is part of a single ecosystem — and they all work to the success of any presentation. Let us strive to be part of this ecosystem and do our best, and let the audience contribute to this effort.

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine. News, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Media Actions for Audio

We have already explored how you can add an audio clip within a PowerPoint slide. Once you place an audio clip, you can associate this clip with several Media actions such as Play, Pause, Resume, and Stop. And although Media actions work the same way for both audio and video clips, there are some subtle differences. Due to these differences, we will explore both of them separately. In this tutorial, we will explore Media Actions for Audio in PowerPoint 2010 — and thereafter we will explore the same options for video clips in a subsequent tutorial. Once you add these Media Actions to your audio clips, PowerPoint will allow you to make these Actions interact with other animations, including Triggers. Although Media Actions are not strictly animations, PowerPoint does place them within the Animation tab of the Ribbon.

Learn how you can create Media Actions for audio clips in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint 2010, Sounds, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Reorder Pictures

You can do any of the typical positioning tasks in PowerPoint for your pictures such as resizing, aligning, and grouping. In addition, you can also reorder the pictures on your slide. In fact, you can also reorder a bunch of pictures and other slide objects such as shapes quite easily using the various ordering options available within the program.

Learn how to reorder pictures and other slide objects in PowerPoint 2011 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Office for Mac, Pictures, PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials

The Outline Trap – Britannica and Brainstorming

By Jerry Weissman

One of the early lessons we all learn in school is how to make an outline; how to create that waterfall of Roman numerals, capital letters, Arabic numerals, and lower case letters that cascade down to the bottom of the page, if not dozens of pages of interminable term papers. Thus we are forever programmed to arrange our ideas in hierarchical order—in sharp contrast to what our brains do naturally: generate ideas in random order.

To demonstrate: as I sit writing this blog, I glance at a ballpoint pen on my desk. The logo on the pen reminds me that I got it as a souvenir at a business conference. I remember that I met a man at the conference who told me about a book on presidential politics. This reminds me that I had been planning another blog on the same subject, and so I open a file with the notes on that subject and…. you see where this is going. I’m sure that if you were to track your own thought patterns, you would discover the same winding, random path. That’s the way every human mind works: unstructured.

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Tagged as: Guest Post, Jerry Weissman, Opinion, Outline, PowerPoint