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Move your presentations beyond bullet points

Cliff Atkinson is the author of Beyond Bullet Points, the single most useful book about PowerPoint and presentations I have ever read. Cliff is leading a free webinar registration required to introduce his approach to the art of presenting this Wednesday, May 10. I heartily recommend you attend the webinar...

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Blog posts 2006-05-08

Humanizing PowerPoint

Cliff Atkinson inspires me every time he writes about how to use PowerPoint to engage rather than lecture to audiences. While PowerPoint is, for too many people, one of the things that is broken in their work, it doesn't have to be. Cliff's blog, Beyond Bullets, provides some excellent...

Tags: Microsoft PowerPoint

Blog posts 2006-02-17

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Break PowerPoint bad habits and build truly useful presentations

Communications expert Cliff Atkinson integrates learning theory with PowerPoint 2007 nuts-and-bolts in his book Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire. This sample chapter debunks some of our standard assumptions about presentation design and explains how to build a slide show...

Tags: Microsoft Press, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Book chapters 2008-09-19

Tim Sanders' PowerPoint epiphany

Tim Sanders ran into an all-too common problem at a speaking engagement. The sequence of speakers at a conference was running behind schedule and he found himself facing a hungry, tired crowd just before lunch.Faced with these circumstances, he made the snap decision to ditch the PowerPoint deck he'd prepared...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Productivity, Software

Blog posts 2007-05-29

Create innovative and dramatic Powerpoint presentations, Hollywood style

This sample chapter from Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire introduces the "Beyond Bullet Points" approach to Powerpoint presentations. Inspired by the concepts of a Hollywood script, storyboard, and a combination of movie and live performance, this three-step approach can be implemented...

Tags: Microsoft Press, Microsoft PowerPoint, PowerPoint Presentation, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Book chapters 2006-07-24

Beyond Bullet Points webinar update

A while back I posted a link to a webinar hosted by Cliff Atkinson, author of Beyond Bullet Points the book and Beyond Bullets the blog. Cliff has just made a WMV video available of the webinar in case you missed it. I'm telling you - this will change the...

Tags: webinar

Blog posts 2006-05-18

Why can't MS LiveMeeting stay alive?

[Updated 1:35 PM: The cause for the problems with LiveMeeting has been found] Fellow blogger Marc Orchant had a super handy tip the other day to sign up for a Microsoft LiveMeeting seminar this morning given by author Cliff Atkinson. The topic was about moving beyond the same old...

Tags: Microsoft Office Live Meeting

Blog posts 2006-05-11