5 Ways to Make PowerPoint Sing! (And Dance!) When if comes to software, bells and whistles are great! If you know how to use them. Working in PowerPoint every day, we’ve learned a few tricks. So when Microsoft asked us to use latest version of PowerPoint to create a cinematic presentation, we couldn’t wait to show off our skills. (Our excitement, Exhibit A: We used PowerPoint 2010–and only PowerPoint 2010–to create a short trailer sharing “5 Rules for Creating Great Presentations.” Nancy recently took a turn as a guest writer on The PowerPoint Team Blog, to expand on the process, and outline the top “5 tips for Getting PowerPoint to Sing!”
12 Top Notch Online Presentation Tools With more long-distance meetings going on due to increasing travel costs and decreasing expense accounts, you need to be able to show your work to clients and co-workers so they can easily see your point. These 12 tools will help you create all of the online presentations you need, set them to music, add links and videos and then embed them or share them as you see fit. authorSTREAM: authorSTREAM allows you to upload your PowerPoint presentations to unique URLs that can be shared with others. BrinkPad: BrinkPad is a Java-based presentation creator that allows you to save your finished work to the Web, save to disk, save as JPGs and more. Empressr: Empressr bills itself as making rich media presentations. Google Docs Presentation: The Google Docs suite of office products includes a presentation tool that will allow you to collaborate with others just as you do with any of its other products. What are some of your favorite presentation tools?
Preparation- Reynolds Before you even open up PowerPoint, sit down and really think about the day of your presentation. What is the real purpose of your talk? Why is it that you were asked to speak? What does the audience expect? In your opinion, what are the most important parts of your topic for the audience to take away from your, say, 50-minute presentation? Remember, even if you’ve been asked to share information, rarely is the mere transfer of information a satisfactory objective from the point of view of the audience. Before you begin to formulate the content of your presentation, you need to ask yourself many basic questions with an eye to becoming the best possible presenter for that particular audience. Who is the audience? What are their backgrounds? What is the purpose of the event? Is it to inspire? Why were you asked to speak? What are their expectations of you? Where is it? Find out everything you can about the location and logistics of the venue. When is it? Do you have enough time to prepare?
Tools New Presentations From creating story and design concepts to developing entire presentation templates and systems, Duarte can make sure your presentation makes the right impact on your audience. Existing Presentations Using the building blocks you already have in place—your content, presentation system, and visual assets—Duarte can enhance, revise, or redesign your existing presentations. Device-Based Presentations Your content must be compelling on all platforms. Multimedia Sometimes your idea is best showcased and shared through multimedia, including motion graphics, videos, and animated demos. Events Duarte has been part of hundreds of company events, doing everything from creating the theme and message strategy to crafting presentations for keynotes and break-out sessions.
Presentation Tools: Keynote vs. PowerPoint When we need to make a presentation, we often think about using Microsoft Powerpoint. Whether it’s presentations for school, work, home or party, Microsoft Powerpoint seems to be the only choice. But Powerpoint’s got a whole lot of competition: Google Presentation, Impress, Symphony, and its strongest rival, Keynote. Some of you may have heard of Keynote, the Apple version equivalent of Powerpoint. Loyal Mac users have raved about it. 1. First of all, theme designs dictate the whole look of the presentation. The basic theme designs offered by Keynote are without competition–genius in design and simply gorgeous with 44 standard themes. Keynote Theme Designs Powerpoint Theme Designs Making a presentation with Keynote allows you to stand out–you’re going the extra mile, so you’re more professional and more memorable. 2. Both Powerpoint and Keynote have interesting transition effects. Sparkle Transition Effect from Keynote Dissolve Transition Effect from Powerpoint 3. 4. Graphs from Keynote 5.
Delivery - Reynolds 1. Show your passion If I had only one tip to give, it would be to be passionate about your topic and let that enthusiasm come out. Yes, you need great content. 2. You’ve heard it before: First impressions are powerful. 3. Humans have short attention spans when it comes to passively sitting and listening to a speaker. 4. Get closer to your audience by moving away from or in front of the podium. 5. To advance your slides and builds, use a small, handheld remote. 6. If you press the “B” key while your PowerPoint or Keynote slide is showing, the screen will go blank. 7. Try looking at individuals rather than scanning the group. 8. If you are speaking in a meeting room or a classroom, the temptation is to turn the lights off so that the slides look better. 9. If you are presenting to a small group, then you can connect your computer to a large TV (via the s-video line-in). 10. When audience members ask questions or give comments, you should be gracious and thank them for their input.
VUVOX - slideshows, photo, video and music sharing, Myspace codes Do Your Slides Pass the Glance Test? - Nancy Duarte by Nancy Duarte | 11:00 AM October 22, 2012 An audience can’t listen to your presentation and read detailed, text-heavy slides at the same time (not without missing key parts of your message, anyway). So make sure your slides pass what I call the glance test: People should be able to comprehend each one in about three seconds. Think of your slides as billboards. Keep It Simple Research shows that people learn more effectively from multimedia messages when they’re stripped of extraneous words, graphics, animation, and sounds. So when adding elements to your slides, have a good reason: Does the audience need to see your logo on each slide to remember who you work for? It’s also important to stick to a consistent visual style in your slide deck. Consider the “before” slide below. Instead, streamline the text and incorporate simple visual elements (and save teleprompter text for the “notes” field, which the audience can’t see). Flow. Contrast. White space. Hierarchy. Unity.
Present! - Edition #1 Rethinking Presentation Design 20 consejos para una buena presentación A lo largo de mi vida profesional he asistido a y he preparado muchas presentaciones. No me considero un ponente brillante porque creo que todavía me queda mucho por aprender de lo que veo en otras personas, pero aquí van unos consejos si algún día tenéis que presentar algo: Las ideas que pongas en las diapositivas deben ser breves y concisas. No conviene que una diapositiva tenga más de 4 ó 5 líneas porque sino, la gente leerá la diapositiva en vez de hacerte caso a ti. Lo que expongas de viva voz debe ser claro. No des vueltas ni cuentes batallitas: ve al grano. Por supuesto, espero vuestras opiniones para mejorar esta lista... Actualizado (04/02/2008 8:22): Como era de esperar, se me han olvidado unos cuantos consejos más: preséntate en 30 segundos (o incluso a tu empresa), por ejemplo o pon en la última diapositiva tu e-mail y agrega notas a la presentación para que la gente las tenga cuando se la descargue. Ya os decía que me quedaba mucho por aprender :-)