Download or read book Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck written by Rick Altman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIRD EDITION: Did you learn PowerPoint in 30 minutes? Join the crowd...most people get no more than a half-hour of training time with PowerPoint before they are tasked with making what is likely to be a first impression of themselves or their company. This book is for earnest presenters and presentation designers who want to escape the perils that entrap so many who turn to PowerPoint for their presentations.
Download or read book Presentation Zen written by Garr Reynolds and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the Net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.
Download or read book Presentations with PowerPoint written by MOIRA Stephen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handy textbook covers all you need to know to get started using Powerpoint for presentations. Learning Made Simple books give you skills without frills. They are matched to the main qualifications, and written by experienced teachers and authors to make often tricky subjects simple to learn. Every book is designed carefully to provide bite-sized lessons matched to your needs. Learning Made Simple titles provide both a new colourful way to study and a useful adjunct to any training course. Using full colour throughout, and written by leading teachers and writers, Learning Made Simple books will help readers learn new skills and develop their talents. Whether studying at college, training at work, or reading at home, aiming for a qualification or simply getting up to speed, Learning Made Simple books will give you the advantage of easy, well-organised training materials in a handy volume with two or four-page sections for each topic for ease of use.
Download or read book PowerPoint Presentations That Sell written by Adam B. Cooper and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2009-08-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful presentations thatclose every deal! It’s time to rethink your approach to PowerPoint® presentations. Rather than oversee data-filled informationsessions, you need to tell a compelling story that holds your audience’s attention while selling yourideas. PowerPoint® Presentations That Sell helps business professionals efficiently structure presentations thataddress audience needs, while providing the necessary tools to create slide elements. With sample slideson every page, this unique guide explains how to: Format and organize slides to emphasize your main points Select and create compelling charts using data Use shortcut techniques to create slides faster Create a memorable, focused conclusion Ending with a case study displaying each presentation tip in action, PowerPoint® Presentations That Sellreplaces the same old features and benefits with actionable recommendations in a dynamic package guaranteedto get results.
Download or read book PowerPoint for Teachers written by Ellen Finkelstein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-10-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was written for teachers who want to use PowerPoint in the classroom to enhance your presentations, teach your students how to use the application, and create interactive educational projects.
Download or read book Death by Powerpoint written by Cherie Kerr and published by ExecuProv Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speaking PowerPoint written by Bruce R. Gabrielle and published by Insights Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You use PowerPoint at work to create strategic plans, executive briefings, research reports and other boardroom-style slides. But could your slides be clearer, more convincing and built in half the time? You bet! Learn a new method for business managers who want to use PowerPoint at work to drive strategy. The Mindworks Presentation Method is based on 40 years of research in brain science, instructional design and information design and will help you to eliminate time wasters and complete PowerPoint decks three times faster, to enhance your credibility by creating visually pleasing slides using simple graphic design rules, to make complex slides easier to understand and avoid "Death by PowerPoint" forever, to make audiences more likely to agree with you by applying the proven principles of master persuaders.
Download or read book Slides for Students written by Gary D. Fisk and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 300 million powerpoint presentations are given daily, yet there is a disconnect between the amazing technology of powerpoint and a mediocre student learning experience. To unleash the full potential of powerpoint presentations, we must do a better job of creating presentations that fit the educational needs of students. Slides for Students does just that.Slides for Students is an open and honest discussion about powerpoint in the classroom. A need exists for thoughtfully designed and implemented classroom instruction that focuses on the learner rather than on the technology. This book was written to translate academic research findings into practical suggestions about powerpoint that educators can use. Divided into two parts, Slides for Students discusses the history of powerpoint, explores academic studies on the topic, and demonstrates how to design slides to best suit educational needs and engage with students to avoid the dreaded "death by powerpoint."
Download or read book Slide ology written by Nancy Duarte and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2008-08-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of best practices for creating slide presentations. It changes your approach, process and expectations for developing visual aides. It makes the difference between a good presentation and a great one.
Download or read book Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances written by Echo Swinford and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2006-02-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're vexed and perplexed by PowerPoint, pick up a copy of Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances. This funny, and often opinionated, guide is chock full of tools and techniques for eliminating all the problems that drive audiences and presenters crazy. There's nothing more discouraging than an unresponsive audience--or worse, one that snickers at your slides. And there's nothing more maddening than technical glitches that turn your carefully planned slide show into a car wreck. Envious when you see other presenters effectively use nifty features that you've never been able to get to work right? Suffer no more! Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances by Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Echo Swinford rides to the rescue. Microsoft PowerPoint is the most popular presentation software on the planet, with an estimated 30 million presentations given each day. So no matter how frustrated you get, you're not about to chuck the program in the Recycle Bin. Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances, presents smart solutions to a variety of all-too-familiar, real-world annoyances. The book is divided into big categories, with annoyances grouped by topic. You can read it cover to cover or simply jump to the chapter or section most relevant to you. Inside its pages you'll learn how to create your own templates, work with multiple masters and slide layouts, and take advantage of various alignment and formatting tools. You'll also learn how to import Excel data; insert graphics, PDF, and Word content; create, edit, and format organization charts and diagrams; use action settings and hyperlinks to jump to other slides; and add sound, video, and other types of multimedia to spark up your presentations. Entertaining and informative, Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances is filled with humorous illustrations and packed with sidebars, tips, and tricks, as well as links to cool resources on the Web.
Download or read book A Trainer s Guide to PowerPoint written by Mike Parkinson and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the Secrets Needed to Master PowerPoint for Training As a successful facilitator, you know the importance of the resources in your professional toolkit. How you engage your audience and improve learning can be affected by how well you use them. But mastery of PowerPoint evades many. Feedback on presentations can range from “What was the point?” to “That changed my life.” Most, though, fall closer to the former. If you are looking for a guide to the PowerPoint practices that will push your presentations into the latter category, look no further. A Trainer's Guide to PowerPoint: Best Practices for Master Presenters is Mike Parkinson's master class on the art of PowerPoint. While Parkinson wants you to understand how amazing a tool PowerPoint is, he's the first to tell you that there is no magic button to make awesome slides. There are, however, proven processes and tools that deliver successful PowerPoint content each and every time you use them. In this book he shares them, detailing his award-winning PowerPoint process and guiding you through three phases of presentation development—discover, design, and deliver. What's more, Parkinson is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP—most valuable professional—an honorific bestowed by Microsoft on those with “very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services.” He shares not only his tips and best practices for presentation success, but also those from several of his fellow MVPs. Parkinson invites you to master PowerPoint as a tool—just like a paintbrush and paint—and to realize that the tool doesn't make the art, you do.
Download or read book The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint written by Edward R. Tufte and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how to improve PowerPoint presentations.
Download or read book Creating Cool PowerPoint 97 Presentations written by Glenn E. Weadock and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1997-02-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's your ideas for a new product, results from the latest sales promotion, or employee training material, Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation software can make all the difference between a ho-hum presentation and an engaging, informative one. It takes more than software, though, to make your slide, transparency, or electronic presentation a successful one. Here, in Creating Cool PowerPoint 97 Presentations you get the techniques used by the experts -- from creating graphics, charts, borders and backgrounds to adding action to complex data and dull statistics, from integrating multimedia clips to producing handouts that are useful to your audience long after the show is over. Plus, Creating Cool PowerPoint 97 Presentations includes a bonus CD-ROM containing valuable demonstration slide shows, clip art and background samplers, and try-out versions of programs such as Photoshop, Painter, Streamline, and Flying Fonts. Get Creating Cool PowerPoint 97 Presentations -- your audience will thank you.
Download or read book HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations written by Nancy Duarte and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrified of speaking in front of a group> Or simply looking to polish your skills? No matter where you are on the spectrum, this guide will give you the confidence and the tools you need to get results. Learn how to wIn over tough crows, organize a coherent narrative, create powerful messages and visuals, connect with and engage your audience, show people why your ideas matter to them, and strike the right tone, in any situation.
Download or read book PowerPoint Advanced Presentation Techniques written by Faithe Wempen and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2004-07-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The first and only book to focus exclusively on advanced PowerPoint techniques, this latest addition to our successful Power Pack series shows veteran users how to harness sophisticated program features-and take their presentations to the next level * Techniques covered include putting together design templates and color schemes, working with master layouts, importing and manipulating digital photos and video clips, creating sophisticated animation and transition effects, and building interactive Web-based presentations * The CD-ROM offers add-ins, utilities, background images, presentation templates, sound effects, animated image clips, third party software toolboxes, presentation libraries, sound effects, and much more
Download or read book Beyond Bullet Points 3rd Edition written by Cliff Atkinson and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the amazing story buried in your presentation—and forget boring, bullet-point-riddled slides forever! Guided by communications expert Cliff Atkinson, you’ll walk you through an innovative, three-step methodology for increasing the impact of your presentation. Discover how to combine classic storytelling techniques with the power of visual media to create a rich, engaging experience with your audience. Fully updated for PowerPoint 2010, and featuring compelling presentation examples from classroom to boardroom, this book will help transform your presentations—and your business impact!
Download or read book Beyond Bullet Points written by Cliff Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to using Microsoft PowerPoint describes how to use stories to create effective business presentations.
