PowerPoint
Two Easy Wordle Website Branding Exercises
I’ve been noodling with the delightful Wordle.net application for a few months now. Initially, I used Wordle to create word clouds that I use as art in PowerPoint presentations.
For example, I entered my opening remarks on a presentation about Social Media for Business, and Wordle generated a unique and relevant welcome slide image. The main [...]
Worst Album Covers Ever
The saddest part of our digital world has got to be the demise of the beloved album cover. Many album covers served as art — a joy to look at.
By contrast, CD covers are mostly small and sad. And now, with MP3 downloads, the art of the package seems to be gone forever. No more [...]
Communists Have Seized Control of the Internet!
I know several web developers who poo-poo anything that is free.
Seriously!
They deeply suspect Open Source-anything, describing the whole phenomenon as some sort of communist plot.
One Windows programmer I know adamantly quoted an old cliche, “You get what you pay for. And if it is free, it cannot be good. And I am always willing to pay extra for [...]
I Love the Smell of PowerPoint….
I posted a new PowerPoint article here…
The PowerPoint podcast is here…
The PDF with show notes is here….
Paper Airplanes – Download, Print, Cut, Fold – Fun!
Paper Airplanes – Download, Print, Cut, Fold – Fun!
PowerPoint Presentation: 4 important components
Ellen Finkelstein blogs that there are three important components of a PowerPoint presentation: content, design, and delivery.
I’d add another: the audience.
I always start designing and creating content with the audience in mind. Without an audience, there wouldn’t be a need for a PowerPoint presentation in the first place.
Six stock photography sources
It’s a curious epidemic….students are inclined to produce multimedia or PowerPoint presentations in lieu of (or in addition to) writing a traditional term paper.
I hope it’s more along the lines of “in addition to”….but considering some of the sad writing samples I’ve seen lately, I have my suspicions.
In the lbr blog about virtual reference for [...]
Present Tense Slides into Boredom…
In a rather funny article by “Anonymous” at Australia’s MIS Magazine, “Present Tense” is defined by the author, who is frequently subjected to less than stellar PowerPoint presentations. He coined the expression to describe the anxiety felt as an audience member when he has to endure an annoying PowerPoint presentation combined with a poor presenter.
He [...]
PowerPoint Templates V. Layout
Your PowerPoint template is different than your PowerPoint layout. Your template provides the visual background (colors, pictures, graphics, gradients, textures, lines, etc.) upon which you lay your content.
Your layout is applied on every slide in the presentation. It’s how you want your content to be arranged on top of your template backdrop . (In the [...]
Make PowerPoint Truly Interactive
Think about “having a conversation” instead of “giving a presentation.”
Sometimes, we focus so hard on the PowerPoint templates and presentations, that we aren’t focused the audience. And they’re the whole reason that you’re presenting!
As a presenter, you want your audience to be educated, informed, excited, motivated, inspired, persuaded, etc. And face it — most of [...]
