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| December 2, 2025 |
| PowerPoint and Presenting News |
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| Presentation Skills |
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| A powerful presentation doesn’t happen by accident — it’s shaped by intention, clarity, and a touch of creative mastery. In this issue, we explore how to start your presentation with genuine impact, setting the tone before the audience even settles in. We also look at the role of misdirection — not as a
distraction, but as a storytelling tool that keeps attention focused where it matters. And for those wanting to deepen their craft, our curated collection of PowerPoint books offers pathways to sharpen technique and broaden perspective. Together, these themes remind us that great presenting blends structure, surprise, and continuous learning. |
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| PowerPoint Books |
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| PowerPoint has become a standard tool for sharing ideas, but the way we use it continues to evolve. This page brings together books that look beyond software versions and focus instead on how people present and communicate. The collection includes practical guides on building templates, using stories, and structuring information so that slides
support the message rather than distract from it. Whether you work with clients, teach groups, or prepare reports, these books offer approaches that can be applied in many settings. The aim is to help presenters use PowerPoint more effectively and with greater confidence. |
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| Gain insights from expert PowerPoint books offering strategies for impactful presentations |
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| Gears for PowerPoint (Series 01) |
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| All these gears are native PowerPoint shapes. You can recolor them, add effects, and do more, all inside PowerPoint. Results which would have taken hours to achieve now take less than a minute! Have fun using the gear graphics, and make your audience take notice! All these gears can be rotated and resized, as required. Since they are essentially
pictures, all types of edits that you can do with pictures work with them too! |
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| Get this complete kit now, you’ll save so much time that you can use doing something else! |
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| Start Your Presentation with Impact |
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| The opening of a presentation is your one chance to grab your audience’s attention – don’t waste it. Whether you’re pitching an idea, delivering a keynote, or giving a team update, those first few seconds set the tone for everything that follows. To help you make the most of that moment, here are 10 compelling ways to start your presentation and
instantly spark curiosity. Think of these as tools in your toolbox—you won’t use them all at once, but having the right one ready can make a big difference when it counts. |
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| Read more with Violeta Saladiene of Toastmasters International |
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| Misdirection |
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| One of the most fundamental techniques used in magic is misdirection, or getting the audience to look in one direction while the magician performs an action—such as hiding a handkerchief—in the other direction, making it seem that the handkerchief has magically disappeared. Presenters often inadvertently abuse this phenomenon because of one of the
most commonly held false beliefs about presentations: that if a presenter turns to look at their slides, they will appear to be unsure of their own content. However, if a presenter does not turn to look at a new slide and continues to look at the audience, the audience will become conflicted. |
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| Read more with Jerry Weissman |
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| Indezine PowerPoint Templates |
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| Medicine and Medical PowerPoint Templates |
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| Legal and Law PowerPoint Templates |
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| FreePPT PowerPoint Templates |
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| Christian PowerPoint Templates |
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| End Note |
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