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05/24/2008 12:43 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Creating Effective Presentations: A Podcast
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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
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05/24/2008 12:42 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: How To Make Conferences Great
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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!
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03/27/2008 11:43 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Poetry Slideshows in PowerPoint!
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Jill White, who has finished 10 years of teaching with Memphis City Schools uses PowerPoint with first graders so that they can add their poetry to PowerPoint slides with a picture. This works great because it's the first time the children use PowerPoint
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01/05/2008 01:06 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Presentations Roundtable with Ric Bretschneider
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Ric Bretschneider is Lead Program Manager for PowerPoint at Microsoft. He's put up a great podcast on the new Presentations Roundtable site -- this podcast is just first of the many more podcasts you can look forward to hearing and downloading from this s
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06/19/2007 11:12 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Mike Pearce: Using PowerPoint in School
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Mike Pearce teaches social studies at Ellison High School in the Killeen Independent School District in Texas, USA. But Mike is not just another teacher -- he uses PowerPoint presentations to deliver a successful teaching system that has shown a phenomena
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05/28/2007 10:35 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Teacher Brings History To Present
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Mike Pearce says the best history teachers in today's schools will tell stories, make students relate to the people and events and use technology in order to do both. Starting in 2001, when he was teaching eighth grade, Pearce began integrating his own le
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04/30/2007 11:02 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Designing the Perfect Presentation
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Carmine Gallo, author of 10 Simple Secrets of the World's Greatest Business Communicators wrote a nice feature for BusinessWeek recently. She sent me this link, and it makes great reading -- she's discussing Duarte Design, a design firm based out of Mount
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04/05/2007 09:50 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Building a Great PowerPoint Presentation
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I came across this interesting article on creating a good PowerPoint presentation. Written by Jon Newsome, this short article explains how planning can help you create better PowerPoints.
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01/15/2007 08:59 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: KsanLab: Conversation with Stas Kravets
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Stas Kravets is COO of worldwide markets at KsanLab, a multimedia design company. Stas has worked in IT since 1997, acting as a product engineer, project manager and marketer. He has an MA in Applied Mathematics, and writes for online marketing media and
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01/03/2007 12:33 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: When PowerPoint Is Not Enough
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Microsoft's PowerPoint long ago became one of the most popular tools for business presentations. That's likely because of its efficiency and simplicity (I have never read a manual nor used the help key): It helps you to easily present the theses of your p
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12/17/2006 08:33 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: When PowerPoint turns deadly dull
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Yet, when the academic presenter walked to the front of the room he immediately turned down the lights and said the following words; "My PowerPoint presentation begins with some statistical information ..."
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12/14/2006 10:18 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Finding strength in numbers
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What mediums do you use to teach? Have you any experience working with PowerPoint? What do you expect of this workshop? Probing questions for a 20-strong group of us, who would most probably rather be spending our Saturday afternoon just chilling out afte
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12/12/2006 02:24 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: PowerPoint Greeting Cards?
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...sending greetings as a PowerPoint slide attached to an e-mail would be cheaper and reach more clients. This year NMG will e-mail 400 clients -- about twice as many as before -- at virtually no cost.
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12/08/2006 08:40 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: PowerPoint in Australian Parliament?
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The world of interactive slide shows, now a feature of many business seminars, could soon be allowed in Federal Parliament. A report tabled in the House of Representatives today suggested Parliament should consider allowing politicians to use computer sof
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09/29/2006 09:43 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Death by PowerPoint
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"America needs a PowerPoint intervention. It feels like half of my work life is spent reading PowerPoints, sitting through PowerPoints, or writing PowerPoints. My point? I think we're just about PowerPointed to death, and I'm not the only one who feels th
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09/01/2006 11:17 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: How to avoid Death by PowerPoint
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Your hands are shaking, your palms are sweaty, your mouth is dry and your knees are knocking. You haven't felt this nervous since you were summoned to the principal's office in primary school. What's going on? You have to do a presentation!
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08/21/2006 09:33 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Ten Worst Presentation Moments
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No matter how bad you think your presentation has been, take some comfort from the fact that at least it wasn‽t as bad as these stories.
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08/21/2006 09:23 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Heralding Clarity?
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It has happened to us all. You are sitting in a PowerPoint presentation trying - and probably failing - not to yawn as slide after slide flashes across the screen. You may blame your boredom on the speaker, but Edward Tufte has another explanation. Micros
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08/21/2006 09:18 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: A New Way to Persuade
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Baltimore County prosecutor James O'C. Gentry Jr. had photographs, medical records and three weeks of trial testimony about a 9-year-old girl who was starved and beaten to death, but no idea how to pull it all together into a compelling closing argument f
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