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I’ve written on this topic before (see the links below), but it’s important enough to cover again. This past weekend I went to a conference. I heard some great content, but a lot of it was either over my head or irrelevant to my needs. From what the audience said (a number were beginners), [...] Do you give sales presentations? Perhaps you travel to prospective clients‘ offices and pitch a product or service. You may give webinars online to sell your wares. Another scenario: You invite people to your office and give them a presentation on what you offer. Many products and services are sold via presentations. Your success [...] A subscriber recently asked me, “I am currently trying to figure out if it is possible to hover over text and have an image pop up when I hover over the text, like you do on most websites these days. Do you know if this is possible in PowerPoint?” You’ve probably seen websites with [...] Have you ever wanted to compare two PowerPoint files side-by-side? You’ve probably done it in Microsoft Word many times. You just open the two Word documents and drag one of them to the side. But when you try that in PowerPoint, it doesn’t work. The entire application window moves. So how to you see [...] I teach a method of presentation development that I call Tell ‘n’ ShowSM. Look at the boy on the slide. One side of his book tells the story. The other side shows it, with a B-I-G picture. Tell ‘n’ ShowSM covers the 3 areas of a presentation: content, design, and delivery. Increase the impact [...] On the popular TV show, NCIS, scenes end with a still shot that starts in color and then becomes black & white. In a discussion on the LinkedIn group, Great Communicators! Effective Presenting & PowerPoint, this technique was suggested as a fun section transition for a presentation. Here’s how the technique looks:
[...] One secret is to record narration for your entire presentation as if you were presenting. Then run your presentation, and sit back and listen. Choose Slide Show > Narration and follow the instructions. (You’ll need a microphone attached to your computer.) Then go into slide show view and play back the presentation. You [...] In a given day, or week, or month, how many messages pop up on your computer to: Update Java, RealPlayer, or Windows? Connect to a wireless network? Remind you of an upcoming meeting or birthday? Keep you up to date on your subscribed RSS feeds? Warning: Some of these pop-ups may appear while [...] Karen e-mailed me the following question: “Is there a way to run a presentation at a specific time? For example at 11:00 am and 2:00 pm for PowerPoint to automatically show the presentation without the presenter.” At the time, I responded that the Windows Task Scheduler might be able to do this, [...] |
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