Case Studies
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Last Updated: March 4th 2009
02/04/2009 10:51 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Second Life for PowerPoint: Conversation with Lisa Lindgren
Lisa Lindgren has brought solid presentation advice to hundreds of thousands of people during her professional career. For nearly a decade she published the critically acclaimed Presenters University Web site and its monthly Presentation Pointers newsletter. Now a member of the Steering Committee for InfoComm's Presentations Council, she continues to work to enrich the industry and advocates for improved presentation techniques and standards.
12/24/2008 01:45 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Denise Then: Holiday Cards with PowerPoint
I meet Denise Then at PowerPoint Live each year, and we talk about "snow" -- the fact that she sees snow all around her in Canada, and that I have never seen snow ever -- yes, it does snow in parts of India where I live -- just that I've never seen it yet.
11/26/2008 01:12 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Sales Psychology Australia: Conversation with Andre Vlcek
Andre Vlcek is an Australia-based sales consultant and Managing Director of Sales Psychology Australia. He specializes in designing and building advanced selling strategies for sales teams.
11/10/2008 03:38 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: PowerPoint in Australian Parliament?
The Sydney Morning Herald reports an issue raised in the Australian parliament that will allow "MPs to use PowerPoint presentations during their speeches, saying Parliament should move from "Dickens's days" into the 21st century" It adds that "Mr Harris said PowerPoint presentations could allow MPs to better present their arguments. "The use of such material in presentations adds another dimension to the ability to convey ideas and messages," he said".
08/02/2008 11:08 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Better Investor Decks in PowerPoint
Almost everyday someone is criticizing PowerPoint because they believe it makes people dumb -- and that's not even the larger problem. The larger problem is that it's so much easy to mention a problem without providing a solution!
05/28/2008 10:29 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Create Slides on a Whiteboard
Life moves on to a full circle -- and so does technology. I was just reading this blog post on 8 Ways to Use a Whiteboard in Your Home Office -- and it struck me how often I like to use a whiteboard (or even a piece of white paper) to sketch out my ideas
05/24/2008 01:13 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Creating Effective Presentations: A Podcast
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
05/24/2008 01:12 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: How To Make Conferences Great
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!
03/28/2008 01:13 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Poetry Slideshows in PowerPoint!
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
01/05/2008 02:36 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Presentations Roundtable with Ric Bretschneider
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
06/20/2007 11:42 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Mike Pearce: Using PowerPoint in School
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
05/29/2007 11:05 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Teacher Brings History To Present
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
05/01/2007 11:32 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Designing the Perfect Presentation
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
04/06/2007 10:20 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Building a Great PowerPoint Presentation
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.
01/16/2007 10:29 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: KsanLab: Conversation with Stas Kravets
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
A lot is at stake -- power, money, reputation, future plans, justice. You need to win this case. Your presentation materials surely will play an important role in helping the judge and jury experience the sights, sounds, and details of the case ... or not. The choice is up to you, says one tech-savvy attorney.
The choice is up to you, says one tech-savvy attorney. It all depends upon whether you are willing to push PowerPoint beyond its normal boundaries to maximize its interactive and persuasive potential. This article by Robert Lane and
Bruce A. Olson
provides a better idea of using PowerPoint in court. 
