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"These tools and generators are free tools that may help you to find the perfect color scheme and combination to use in your slides... These tools may help to choose the right background color but also the color scheme to use for text and graphics and keep a good color contrast in your slides..."

 

Many of my MBA students have a hard time choosing colors for their PowerPoint presentations -- even with the templates provided. As a result, they visually ugly. You can imagine how difficult it is then to really appreciate the stories and information you are sharing in your presentation. The rotten color combos are a huge distraction and we can't listen well.

 

So don't let this happen to you! Fellow curator Baiba Svenca @baibbb found this article and tools and I'm delighted to be able to share it with you -- and all my MBA students, too!

 

Thanks Baiba :) 

This review was written by Karen Dietz for her curated content on business storytelling at www.scoop.it/t/just-story-it ;

Via Baiba Svenca, Karen Dietz

We have just updated our popular editable PowerPoint newspapers. With these you can create your own news headlines, articles and insert your own pictures.

Following a couple of requests we have updated these so that you can now add in your own newspaper name.

A few different types of newspapers are included in the template.

These spoof newspaper templates could have many uses, including college and school projects and fun cards to send news to your friends and family. You could make a nice news magazine using the template.

The template is also available in portrait (vertical) format and our latest template in the series the Magazine PowerPoint

 

Read more:

http://www.presentationmagazine.com/editable-powerpoint-newspapers-407.htm

Via Gust MEES, Baiba Svenca, R.Conrath, Ed.D.

MakeUseOf: Have you ever done a PowerPoint presentation? Of course you have. If you said “no,” I’d call you a liar. Alright, that may be extreme. But most of us have, right? I’d say so. So, what’s my point?

Via Baiba Svenca, Cristina Reyes