No-cost seminar on Feb 20
Coming attractions
How wide is your PPT gap?
Looking for presentation topics
Headline news about headlines
Beta tester update 		 
  Sign up for a No-Cost Seminar February 20 titled "The First Five Slides"
There are a number of exciting new ventures on the horizon for the Beyond Bullet Points approach, including a new membership website packed full of resources and a major revision of the BBP book coming out this summer. In the meantime, I hope you can join me for a no-cost webinar coming up on Feb. 20 -- read more below, or register now here >		  
 
  The First Five Slides - sign up for a no-cost webinar Feb. 20  
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Join me at 9am Pacific Time on Feb. 20 for a no-cost webcast sponsored by Microsoft Office, and you'll learn how to dramatically increase the impact of your presentations in the first five slides using the BBP approach. Discover how you can use classical story elements to create dramatic suspense and to ensure that the beginning of your story sets the stage for an engaging presentation to come. I hope you can join me! Register here >(If you can't make the webinar, visit the link again a few days later to see an archived recording.)

 
  Coming Attractions  
 

It was a busy 2006 spent mostly on the road, but 2007 will be all about creating resources to help you learn and apply the BBP approach. Coming attractions include: Beyond Bullet Points Online, a membership-based website with a BBP training course, downloads and live online seminars with me (Spring 2007); and the new BBP book, including 100 additional pages plus a CD packed with new techniques, tools, and examples of presentations (Summer 2007).
 
  How wide is your PowerPoint gap?  
 
I recently gave a pilot workshop at a large corporation that is considering adopting BBP training on a wide scale. I asked the group where they are with their current PowerPoint approach, and where they would like to be, and they came up with this list: Today, our current approach to PowerPoint is: - Overloading our audiences with too much information. - Throwing in everything but the kitchen sink. - Just doing a data dump session. To read more about the gap, click here
 
  Looking for presentation candidates for the new BBP book  
 
The main request I get about the BBP book is to see more examples of how the approach works across a variety of topics and purposes. If you'd like to submit your presentation idea for possible inclusion in the new BBP book, I'd be interested to hear from you - just send a note with a description of your topic through the contact form here>
 
  Headline news: Research shows that it matters what you write at the top of a slide  
 
Does it really matter what you put at the top of your slides? Absolutely, according to researcher Michael Alley. He tested two designs for teaching slides on two groups of students -- one design with the conventional category heading at the top, and another with a complete sentence at the top. The result? An 11% improvement in test scores among students who saw the slides with complete sentences. That's headline news for those of you using BBP, because the approach requires that you write complete sentences in the story template, which become the headlines of slides in PowerPoint. To read more about Alley's work, visit his site here>
 
  Beta tester update: Thanks for your patience!  
 
If you expressed interest in being involved with the beta version of the membership website, thank you for your patience. We now have the technology in place that will run the site, and are busy developing new materials in conjunction with the new BBP book. Expect to hear something from us in the next couple of months - we'll keep you updated through this newsletter.
 
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