Even if it’s a cute pig, it’s still a pig. Isn’t it? So let’s cut the crap about Prezi – Which I like and have reviewed here– saving the world from PowerPoint, and realise that drafting a decent speech with no pictures and delivering it competently, will be much better received than a poor…
I’m a great admirer of Cliff Atkinson, Author of ‘Beyond Bullet Points’- So I’m delighted to point out a brief article by the great Cliff on how to use PowerPoint well. 5 Essentials for an Effective PowerPoint – FoxNews.com If you missed it, you might like to read my review of this excellent book here.
Here’s another funny piece to make you think, from Ed Reid, a brilliant independent consultant based in the UK . How Microsoft killed the art of public speaking « EdReidYork’s Blog. I’m not soooo likely to blame Microsoft. I’d rather have Bill Gates’s rampant commercialism that Steve Jobs’ hippy schtick any day. And we punish the guy that…
In the fusty old world of presentation software there’s a new kid on the block claiming to be a PowerPoint ‘Killer’. Is it any good, or just another loudmouth looking for a lucky break? Here are a few answers to your questions… What is Prezi? In a nutshell, Prezi is a ‘Flash’-based presentation software that allows…
Remember that great visuals support the spoken words and the speaker. They are there to emphasise your key points, not to make them. Such visual emphasis will help the audience understand what you mean, not just what you say. Here’s 10 tips from all of our years of helping the message get through. Do the visuals only after…
What is Prezi? In a nutshell, Prezi is a Flash-based presentation system that allows users to create incredibly dynamic presentations. Presentations where you can zoom in and out across a large area (no slides), create motion paths, embed images and video and do things that previously needed a pretty competent Flash developer and a whole…
I know it’s not the thing, but the way you use the thing that’s really the most important thing (With me so far?) But sometimeas a thing comes along that makes you want to dance and sing with joy. Prezi is that thing. What is it? It’s just a presentation software package It’s very good value…
I started flicking through the book and read a few parts of it and I was overtaken by an awful sense of dread. A light went out forever for me, and it’s all Cliff’s fault. Beyond Bullet Points (BBP) is a REALLY GOOD BOOK. In my mind, it was me who was going to write…