Topic: Presentation Software

Presentation Package Picks

Pick the presentation package that best suits your needs.READ»

Blame It on Microsoft

Yes, Powerpoint presentations are a disaster. And in this article in today's NY Times, The Level of Discourse Continues to Slide, Dan Leach, who's responsible for PowerPoint at Microsoft, and should know better, says, "I feel like ...READ»

PowerPoint of No Return

In September, I mentioned some interesting perspectives on PowerPoint in response to an entry by Seth Godin criticizing the popular presentation application. Kicking off chapter six of this month's Readers' Choice Award winner, ...READ»

PowerPoint of No Return III

Ramon Ray, a member of the New York City Company of Friends group, today transmitted a pointer to Sunday's New York Times Magazine article about how "PowerPoint Makes You Dumb." The piece opens: In August, the Columbia Accident ...READ»

The Corporate Shrink

Why are we obsessed with PowerPoint?READ»

PowerPoint of Fact

Leaders at the University of Tasmania tried and tested several online learning platforms before deciding that their best bet was PowerPoint. Educators there say that it's a wonderful tool for self-paced, case-based learning -- and ...READ»

PowerPoint of Fact II

Thanks to Frank Patrick for referring us to Michael Hyatt's roundup of useful PowerPoint resources. If you must use the presentation tool, these resources will help you do so with skill and savvy -- not sleepiness. These Web sites, ...READ»

The Apple Wannabes: Dell, Microsoft, Pepsi, and Google

Inside the secret brainstorms that begin with the dreaded phrase, "If only we could be more like Apple."READ»

PowerPoint of Fact III

FC Now reader Cliff Atkinson emailed earlier today about a Financial Times article about the ouster of Rentokil Initial's newly installed CEO -- in part because of "death by PowerPoint." Atkinson respondes by offering some ...READ»

Near Death by PowerPoint

Ever been stuck in an interminable meeting in which a speaker slogged through 101 frustrating PowerPoint slides? Ever finish sitting through a presentation and wonder, well, what the point was? It doesn't have to be that way. ...READ»

PowerPoint of No Return II

In addition to Bill's presentation tips in chapters six and nine of his book, Mike Hillyer today offers some insight on "avoiding PowerPoint presentations that suck." Hillyer addresses when to use PowerPoint, but also how. Among his ...READ»

iMac, uMac, Can We All Mac?

Sure, it's a PC world -- but that doesn't make Mac lovers outcasts. Meet three hard-core Mac addicts who can teach you the shortcuts and tools that you need to make your Mac "pc."READ»

Presentations That Pop

Technology helps bring your sales presentations to life, but don't rely on it to make you a great presenter.READ»

Death To PowerPoint!

I'm on a mission this year. A mission to expunge PowerPoint slides from all my clients' presentations. For a while, I thought it was getting better. People seemed to be using fewer slides, though they were as poorly designed as ever. ...READ»

Microsoft Office 2010 Moves to the Cloud

When Canadian company i4i sued Microsoft this past August, watchdogs in the software community predicted that the move would encourage Microsoft to bring up their plans for a move to cloud computing much earlier than planned – and it looks like they were right. In addition to the announcements of a new and improved version of Internet Explorer and a major update of the Silverlight runtime platform at this week’s Microsoft at the…READ»

Professional Presentation Pointers: Part Four – Everything Else

Well, not everything else, exactly. But enough so that if you include the first three installments of this series, you'll have a very good idea of just what it takes to deliver professional presentation with polish and panache. (1st ...READ»

When Your Presentation Crashes ... Who You Gonna Call?

Five tips on giving a catastrophe-free presentation from Geek Squad.READ»

Cheat Sheet

How to speak business this monthREAD»

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Tips for the Big Pitch

Tips and tools for making your big pitch smoothly and successfully.READ»

Taking Your Show on the Road

Nothing gets your point across like a dynamic, media-rich presentation.

Blame It on Microsoft II

David Byrne loves PowerPoint. Edward Tufte loathes it. And Cheryl Dahle suggests that there's more to off-site and planning meetings than slide shows and white boards. Plenty of parallel reads!READ»

Get Your Work to Go

How is the future of work like ordering take-out Chinese? For work to go, put your files online, leave your laptop behind, and wherever you land, dial in for your order. It's ready when you are. (But you'll have to work again in an hour.)READ»

Work/Life: Mountains and Stocks and Dogs, Oh My!

The weekend is on its way, and as always I should be life-ing as opposed to working, but when the stock market takes as big a hit as it did yesterday it just gets my mind going. I do have plans with my wife and daughters on ...READ»

Corporate Cartoons

Inspired by David Rees' Get Your War On clip-art comic strip, Frank Patrick is experimenting with making comic strips using PowerPoint. He even offers a template so Web readers can create their own corporate clip-art comic strips. If ...READ»