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Latest ebook!

101 Advanced Techniques Every PowerPoint User Should Know

Take PowerPoint to the limit with advanced techniques for animation, hyperlinking, images, multimedia, and more! You'll find ways to engage your audience with interactivity, explain processes more clearly with animation, and incorporate multimedia for a more complete learning experience.

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The Lost Art of Persuasion

Discover the 3 mistakes most presenters make in their persuasive presentations.

This book is about how to succeed with sales presentations, internal presentations—any time you need to persuade. If you're a sales rep or a business manager recommending proposals, you'll find this e-book an invaluable tool.

"Wow, Ellen, I am impressed! I really love the Cialdini reference, I love the point of having integrity in selling, non-obfuscation, etc , and of course I loved the knowledge of speaking to the listener. Well done! I think everyone who obtains this will find real gold inside. Oh yeah, the bit about having a purpose, and finding wealth through enriching the lives of others… priceless." - Tony Camero, Internet Marketer

101 Tips Every PowerPoint User Should Know

For everyone who never took a course or read a book! These tips will fill in the gaps, speed up your work, make presentations easier, and help you get better results. Over 100 pages, in e-book (PDF) format. Only $15!

Now, updated for 2007!

“I love it! This will become a reference that stays on my desk for daily use.” - Rebecca Renner, Creative Minds, Inc.

7 Steps to Great Images

Gives you the knowledge you need to know about creating images for PowerPoint presentations. 22 pages, with 18 full-color figures. Only $6.95!

Discover simple techniques for making images more powerful. Find out how to avoid unprofessional graphics on your slides.

PowerPoint for Teachers: Dynamic Presentations and Interactive Classroom Projects

For all educators, this book shows how to use PowerPoint as a tool for effective education. You'll learn how to create great presentations, design quizzes and games, develop exciting Web-based resources, and more. Companion Web site offers downloads and additional content.

Comments from teachers:
"It is a great teacher friendly resource. It is easy to use, and really helpful in figuring out PowerPoint!"
"I did not know that I could make a quiz/game using Power Point! I am getting all kinds of ideas of how to use this in my classroom!!!"
"I didn't know that I could do these activities with PowerPoint. I am really impressed with all that can be done."
"I learned a great deal from this product! The PowerPoint ideas were amazing. I never knew how to put those types of things together. It was very intriguing."
"How easy step-by-step it was and easy to implement. Variety of activities with a given topic. Easy to modify activities to meet your classroom expectations."
"I learned how easy it is to use and implement in all academic areas."
"I liked how easy it was to use and the step by step directions."
"I really liked all the variety of activities at different levels."

How to Do Everything With Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

All new for the latest release! Thorough coverage of all features, plus best practices, design concepts, content techniques, delivery tips, and more. Includes companion web site with downloads.

"I’ve read your ‘How to Do Everything with PPT 2007’ book and found it very informative. Most definitely worth the price; in fact, several times over.   And I say that having purchased and read most other PPT 2007 books available on Amazon." -Nathan Schor

This book was a HUGE help for me while learning PowerPoint 2007. It was remarkably clearly written and easy to follow. While I'm not a big fan of all the changes to the PowerPoint (and the Office suite generally), it's great to have a well-written guidebook for coping with the increased complexity! -Jon Boutelle, CTO, SlideShare

"I find your book the best of the three I have bought to learn PowerPoint."-Robert Maddin

PresentationEssentials: 39 Ideas on Content, Design and Delivery by Adrien Oliver

This beautifully designed book contains short essays on how to create presentations that really work. These ideas, or principles, will help you avoid the Death by PowerPoint trap. The book also makes a great gift for someone who is still using text-based slides.

Some of the topics included:

• If a situation doesn’t need a presentation, don’t make one
• Short doesn’t mean unimportant
• Create a storyline with the 1-3-1 method (”Candywrapper” method)
• Design is more than just the slides
• Use interactivity to include your audience in the presentation
• Close the feedback loop
• The one page handout

Each idea is short and sweet. You won’t find technical details on how to use PowerPoint. But you will find a wide range of valuable concepts.

How to Do Everything with PowerPoint2003
Fully updated for PowerPoint 2003 with the same thorough coverage as the previous edition. Complete, professional, clear explanations on how to create effective presentations. New features include full-screen video, package to CD (create an auto-run CD), and more. Lots of supplementary material in How To and Did You Know boxes.

"I read your book, How to Do Everything with PowerPoint 2002 and loved it. It really gave me the know-how to deliver an amazing sales presentation   -Christina Lang

How to Prevent Death by PowerPoint with Instant Makeovers of Your Slides

Your success depends on preventing Death by PowerPoint! Discover how to make over slides for better results.

See slides transformed in front of your eyes and learn the principles you can use yourself to prevent Death by PowerPoint!

• Learn the top no-no's (what audiences hate the most!) and how to avoid them
• Create content that your audience wants
• Use professional delivery techniques that make you look like a pro

Much more! See the full content of this training webinar.

PowerPoint 2007: Get the Most Out of the New Features

Discover tips to tame the ribbon. Learn how to turn bulleted text into diagrams. Get a professional, Photoshopped look in a click or two. Use great shortcuts, customize layouts, and more. If you're struggling with PowerPoint 2007 or using it the same way you used 2003, you're missing out on a lot!

High Impact Slide Design for Non-Designers

Learn how to design professional-looking slides that communicate clearly! Discover techniques that anyone can use. Find out about the four layouts that always look good!

Presenting to Teach and Inform: PowerPoint for Education & Training

Present so your students understand and remember and avoid the common mistake that ensures that your students won't hear what your saying! Hint: The majority of teachers make this mistake.

Learn about the research, but more importantly, learn practical techniques you can use immediately to get better educational outcomes!

Animation and Video in PowerPoint—Advanced Techniques

Learn great techniques that will turn your presentations into a powerhouse!

You'll receive the 1-hour webinar recording, a 14-page step-by-step handout (with instructions for both PowerPoint 2003 and 2007), and the presentation containing the techniques. Read more about which techniques are included!

Present Interactively: Your Audience Expects It!

Learn to engage & involve your audience. They don't want to be passive!

There's a new way to present and it doesn't involve standing in front of an audience and talking. Are you ready for the change?

Interactive presentation skills are important for your career! Learn how to involve your audience from the first few minutes, and more. Learn more about this webinar.

Create an Outstanding Presentation Self-Study Course

This self-study course will give you the tools and techniques you need to succeed with presentations. It contains the same content as the 3-day workshop, but you work entirely on your own, at your own pace.

People actually applauded at the end!! and my friend who was there (and gave me constructive feedback from my lecture in May) said it was great. So thank you thank you thank you! It works!"
- Chaya Green, TM Teacher

"I wrote a PPT last week using the "Tell'n'Show^SM idea. Worked beautifully. Not surprisingly I ended up with graphically oriented, rather than word oriented, slides. I also wrote the presentation using Word and then figured what visual aids would emphasize something being said. Then brought it all over to PPT. Just the opposite of what I used to do, which was start by opening PPT, pull up the standard bullet point slide and start writing. Thanks for the help!" -Bob Stein

This video course teaches just what you need to know! Easy to follow. Learn at your own speed. Systematically explains and shows each feature. 11 modules for easy learning.

Read more and watch a short excerpt.

From the review in Toastmaster magazine, "Finkelstein provides expert voice-over instruction - and a bounty of insider's tips and suggestions - as she walks users through each prominent new features of 2007." - Dave Zielinski

Targus wireless remote/laser pointer

I use this inexpensive remote because it's very simple. It's small so your audience will hardly notice it; it fits easily in the palm of your hand. You just plug the USB adapter into your laptop and it works. Click the right button to go to the next slide. Click the left button to go backward. Click the bottom button to black out and re-view a slide. It's that easy.

It does have some minor disadvantages:

• The On/Off switch on the right side is very hard to see. I lent it to my husband; he and a computer-savvy colleague thought it was broken because they couldn't find the switch!
• The top button is supposed to allow you to switch to other applications. I haven't figured out how to control it well enough to use it.
• The buttons make a slight clicking sound; I'd prefer them to be silent

iSpring products

iSpring Pro 5
iSpring Pro is an accurate PowerPoint to Flash converter that transforms animations and interactivity of the original PowerPoint presentations. iSpring Pro provides flexible conversion options, a smart fully customizable Player, and audio recording facilities. The result is a Flash presentation that looks as if it were professionally created just for you.

iSpring Presenter 5
iSpring Presenter is an innovative e-learning content authoring tool designed specially for e-learning professionals. It is a powerful toolkit for delivering your knowledge and sharing your experience via web-friendly Flash presentations.

With iSpring Presenter you can turn your learning materials into engaging Flash courses, add presenter video, audio narrations, quizzes. The result is a complete learning course ready for uploading to any SCORM/AICC compliant Learning Management System.

iSpring QuizMaker 5
iSpring QuizMaker is a fast and intuitive tool for creating interactive, fully customizable Flash quizzes. iSpring QuizMaker offers powerful options to create quizzes such as fill in the blank, multiple choice, word bank, matching, and more. You can enhance each question with audio, image and video. You can randomize both the answers and quiz questions so that they appear in a different order for each quiz taker. The result is a professional looking quiz ready to be published online or integrated into your e-learning course.

Jeopardy-like quiz game

Create your own quiz game from this prototype! Interact with your audience or students and combine fun with learning.

Watch and download a demo before purchasing.

Do you work with large PowerPoint files? Fileminimizer compresses PowerPoint files up to 98%!

Fileminimizer does just what it says; it compresses PowerPoint files so that you can easily send them to others or present from a laptop without freezing up!It compresses Word and Excel documents, too! Read more about it and get a free trial.

Flash Professional CS5 & Flash Catalyst CS5 For Dummies
In full color, discover the new animation and design features! This book has been highly rated and reviewed!

Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For Dummies

RSS is hot! This new Web technology lets readers get all the information they need, fast and in one place--a great boon for the Information Age. For publishers, RSS is a way to reliably communicate to interested parties, without using e-mail. It's a win-win situation.
 

Flash CS4 For Dummies

Includes 3D rotation and inverse kinetics! And the book is finally in color!

"I...bought CS4...and your book, which is great--it's just at the right level for me, quick and easy to follow. Fantastic purchase! At last I have found a book that tells me the whole story!" - Patricia, England