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06/16/2009 02:31 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Selling with PowerPoint: Taking Control of That Critical First Meeting
A prospective customer has invited you to showcase your company's products and services, and the stakes are high. This contract could be huge. Your marketing department and executives have been fretting over the necessary PowerPoint slides for weeks. Every word has to be perfect. Every slide must be in exactly the right order. Your mission is to lay down a faultlessly planned and executed sales strategy that persuades this customer to buy exclusively from you ... but you are worried!
05/09/2009 04:35 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Enriching Online Marketing with PowerPoint Presentations
You can easily boost your business and your SEO / SEM efforts with the help of an old friend: PowerPoint. All you need to do is pick a topic that you want to relate your business to, prepare a presentation on that topic and then publish it on presentation plattforms like SlideShare, Slide.com, etc. You can then bookmark your online content and enrich it with keywords and descriptions to further promote your content and boost your SEO / SEM efforts.
04/15/2009 04:54 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Speaking Visually: Eight Roles Pictures Play in Presentation
This article by Robert Lane and Andre Vlcek explains why including pictures in presentations is a simple and powerful way of expanding your expressive potential as a speaker. Pictures communicate at levels beyond the descriptive possibilities of words and bathe the brain in much desired visual stimulation. At the same time, not all pictures are created equally.
03/13/2009 02:17 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: PowerPoint Slide Design in 2009: Conversation with Olivia Mitchell
Olivia Mitchell has been a Toastmaster, a management development trainer for a major bank, and a political candidate. Now she teaches others how to become more confident and effective presenters - through face-to-face training courses in New Zealand (Effective Speaking) and her blog Speaking about Presenting.
03/10/2009 03:26 PM
This article by Robert Lane and Dr. C. June Maker explores how the human brain handles visual input and the implications for PowerPoint presentations. We recommend eliminating most of those carefully thought-out words on slides and replacing them with certain kinds of rich imagery.
02/16/2009 02:55 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Show Me! What Brain Research Says About Visuals in PowerPoint
This article by Robert Lane and Dr. Stephen Kosslyn explores how the human brain handles visual input and the implications for PowerPoint presentations. We recommend eliminating most of those carefully thought-out words on slides and replacing them with certain kinds of rich imagery. Doing so efficiently feeds the brain what it likes to see, and allows you to communicate messages in ways not possible with words alone.
01/21/2009 07:23 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: PowerPoint Design Wish List
I came across this interesting blog post by Andrew Dlugan that's actually an open letter to the PowerPoint programming (development) team. It talks about making some changes to the program, and I do agree with several of them. About those I don't agree with, those are mainly wishes to curtail how the program operates by providing users with less options for transitions, words, and color. That's like debating the intelligence of users, and putting a road block to creativity.
01/09/2009 11:21 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Slide Design in 2009: Changes
Life changes every day, and the world goes around. And even if we did nothing, said nothing, or put ourselves in the deep depths of contentment, change will still happen. Change is akin to growth -- and that growth might be a sapling sprouting from its seed or a conglomerate increasing its reach in world markets.
12/30/2008 02:33 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: InfoComm International Annual Presentations Professional Survey
Every year, Lisa Lindgren coordinates with the media for this professional survey on presentations for InfoComm -- and this year too, she sent me these details. All participants will receive a free survey report. Make sure you participate.
03/29/2008 01:30 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: The Screencaster: Lessons to the aspiring screencaster from Strunk & White
This guest post is by Daniel Park, author of Camtasia Studio: The Definitive Guide. Daniel has just launched a new screencasting newsletter, and this is an excerpt from the first issue -- make sure you subscribe to The Screencaster...
01/18/2008 10:14 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Design for the Close: Interactive Sales Presentations
The linear presentation approach has gone fundamentally unchallenged until recent years when something changed. It wasn’t the presenters (they actually liked the straight-forward simplicity) and it wasn’t really the software. It was certain audience t
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
05/02/2007 05:57 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: InfoComm International Annual Presentations Professional Survey
Every year, Lisa Lindgren coordinates with the media for this professional survey on presentations for InfoComm -- and this year too, she sent me these details. All participants will receive a free survey report. Make sure you participate.
03/22/2007 12:56 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Back to Blogging
I just got back a few hours ago from a somewhat long trip -- so that explains why you haven't seen too many blog posts in a while. There's so much to come yet -- so wait and watch for the new posts!
08/21/2006 10:03 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Ten Worst Presentation Moments
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.
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. 
