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A Broken PPT Culture?
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Tutorial: Visual Triggers
A Positive Addiction
Join a Workshop!
Tufte on PowerPoint
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Greetings!
A mounting chorus of critics say that the way we're doing PowerPoint is broken. If you're ready to start being part of the solution, welcome to the first edition of the "Bullet Points Kill" newsletter.
As part of this growing community, you'll receive monthly articles, tutorials
and practical case studies that show how you can start creating and living a
bullet-free lifestyle.
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A Broken PowerPoint Culture? |
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"By the fruit of their
PowerPoint labor you shall know them. That's one painful truth that
emerged from the final report of the Columbia Accident Investigation
Board. In its analysis of the accident's organizational causes, the
Board viewed 'the endemic use of PowerPoint briefing slides instead
of technical papers as an illustration of the problematic methods of
technical communications at NASA.' Like huge mirrors hanging
on the walls, PowerPoint is an open secret that lays bare the inner
thoughts
of every organization..." read
more > |
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Win a FREE T-Shirt |
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| Join us in conversation
and win a FREE t-shirt! Share your stories or your 'before and after'
slides, and if we choose them for posting in a newsletter, we'll send
you a "Bullet Points Kill" t-shirt. What would your own slides
look like without bullet points? Try out the tutorial below, then send
us your results. Or, have you tried to improve your presentations, only
to have your creativity crushed by PowerPoint politics? Send your stories here> |
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Tutorial: Visual Triggers |
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| In "Kung Fu Secrets of
the PowerPoint Masters", an article in this month's Business 2.0 magazine,
Cliff recommends using more images in PowerPoint from photo archivers
like Corbis.com. How can you transform your bullet points into
visual triggers? Just follow the steps in this tutorial, and you'll engage
your audience and yourself in no time. |
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A Positive Addiction |
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| "With these three
changes to the molecular structure of your thinking, the coma inducing
software
called PowerPoint can become a powerful force to addict your audience
to the mind-expanding content of your presentation. Step
1: Stop using templates. Templates restrict, constrain and force information
into a small part of the screen. Step 2..." read
more > |
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Join a Workshop! |
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| Transform your PowerPoint paradigm fast at a workshop or keynote presented by Sociable Media President Cliff Atkinson! Cliff presents a keynote Oct. 15 at the 'PowerPoint Live' conference in Tucson titled "Bullet Points Kill: Deconstructing PowerPoint and Reconstructing Communication." On Oct. 18 he's at UCLA Extension to co-present a workshop titled "How to Use Technology to Enhance Your Business Presentations". Recent workshops include the Association of Healthcare Medical Directors in New York, InfoComm in Orlando, and Sales and Marketing Executives International in Los Angeles. |
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Tufte on PowerPoint |
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| If you haven't purchased
your copy of "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint" by Edward Tufte, visit
www.tufte.com to order one. The essay is a devastating indictment of
the way we do PowerPoint today, featuring 52 visual examples of how bad
things really are. Unfortunately the essay has 0 visual examples of how
to improve our PowerPoint approach, so it's up to us to figure out a
better way. Drop us a line and share with all of us what you're doing
to creatively solve the PowerPoint problem - send your stories here> |
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