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A study from Harvard’s Decision Science Laboratory uses brain science to explain why we prefer certain types of presentations over others.
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Learn how to create professional PowerPoint Templates using Slide Master in PowerPoint. Use these PPT templates for business presentations or personal use.
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Jeff Domansky
January 14, 2017 11:53 PM
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According to one recent survey, the top two reasons why people loathe PowerPoint presentations so march are that "the speaker reads the slides" and uses "full sentences for text." By now everyone should know not to read whole blocks of text to audiences verbatim. But it’s not enough to just convert them to bullet points, then present slide after slide of those, either.
If you really want to engage your audience and enhance your message, you need to use PowerPoint to tell a story—and you need to tell it as visually as possible. The good news is that you don't need to be a professional graphic designer (or even necessarily hire one) in order to do that. What might not look particularly sleek or aesthetically compelling can still be effective. Here's how to use imagery to get your point across and maximize your narrative impact, even if you aren't the most visually minded person....
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Jeff Domansky
June 8, 2016 10:41 PM
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According to Buffer, visual content is more than 40X more likely to get shared on social media than other types of content. And if you need any more evidence to convince you visuals are essential to your content marketing, just consider all these stats.
But honestly ... who's got time for all that? And I don't know about you, but I don't exactly have a degree in graphic design, or the budget to hire someone who does. So, what's a design-impaired marketer to do?
Luckily, over the past couple years, we've been on a mission at HubSpot to make visual content creation much less of an obstacle for the average marketer. How, you ask? Templates, my friends ... templates. And what's great about these templates is they're all built for software you probably already have on your computer: PowerPoint.
I'm going to walk you through all the visual content marketing templates we have available for free to download, and show you how we've used them ourselves to create awesome visuals right in PowerPoint....
You don’t need to be a good designer, public speaker, or writer to design a powerful PowerPoint presentation. Here are a few helpful tips!
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Jeff Domansky
December 18, 2014 1:11 AM
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Professional PowerPoint templates are a great way to look your best and impress your audience the next time you give a presentation. Here's an excellent set of 16 PowerPoint templates to impress in your next marketing presentation.
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Jeff Domansky
September 18, 2014 11:32 PM
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Those who are experienced with some of these functions may find them a bit mundane, but I still remember how cool it was to find and use them for the first time. While many may be aware of some of these techniques, I think most readers will find something fun and new here.
Following are 10 pretty cool things you can do with the popular presentation tool. Some are really easy, others will take more time and effort to get familiar with. Just be sure not to go overboard with these – use them sparingly for emphasis and to keep it interesting, not to create a kaleidoscope of visual chaos....
We've been compiling a list of top presentation resources that will help you become a master presenter. Check out the resources below nicely divided into categories of articles, infographics, Quora and videos. There's something for every presenter!
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SlideCaptain empowers you to create and share stylish online presentations.
Insert nearly any web content. Show your work wherever you are and impress your audience. Fully responsive with touch device support.
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If you are tired of looking for great alternatives to Prezi – look no further, because I have the ultimate comprehensive list of PowerPoint alternatives right here. No more boring presentations. With this list you can pick the perfect presentation tool or software for your presentation (be it on stage in-front of an audience or online for sharing).
We tested these 10 different alternatives to Prezi and PowerPoint and summarized what we thought about each one.
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Jeff Domansky
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May 25, 2013 11:56 AM
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Highlight, focus or magnify objects in PowerPoint presentations, on the fly and with zero preperation
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Jeff Domansky
September 3, 2012 3:37 PM
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I love this article and am using its tips and outline this week for several presentations I am doing. While it is focused on sales, this post follows the same pattern I use when teaching my MBA students on business communication and influential presentations.
Keep this article/outline handy because it works!!
This review was written by Karen Dietz for her curated content on business storytelling at www.scoop.it/t/just-story/it [A must read for storytellers and content pros - JD]
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Free pattern backgrounds that you can create yourself in PowerPoint. Use geometric pattern background and abstract pattern backgrounds for amazing designs!
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These 10 PowerPoint tips will save you time and have you creating presentations faster. These PowerPoint time-saving tips will cut your presentation design time
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Jeff Domansky
November 15, 2016 10:15 PM
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AA voice narration in a PowerPoint 2016 presentation is sophisticated indeed. A self-playing, kiosk-style presentation can be accompanied by a human voice such that the narrator gives the presentation without actually being there.
To narrate a presentation, a working microphone must be attached or built in to your computer. You record the narration for slides one slide at a time or all at one time, and the recording is stored in the PowerPoint file, not in a separate audio file.
The best way to record voice narrations is to do it on a slide-by-slide basis. You can record across several slides, but getting your voice narration and slides to be in sync with one another can be a lot of trouble....
Bullet Points is just pure laziness. Lists are not meant for a slide. 2 minutes are all you need to transform a list to a creative slide!
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Jeff Domansky
February 6, 2016 11:50 PM
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Why do some presentations and speeches rock, while some others suck? We set out to find the answer
PresentiGo is a lightweight, effective tool for marketing and sales people that enhances your PowerPoint presentations with features like 3D, interactivity, animations and improves the team’s productivity and slides performance, based on real-time data and user feedback.
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Jeff Domansky
November 30, 2014 11:47 PM
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Aside from being time-saving, using PowerPoint for infographics is easy. To start with, you can create infographics using hundreds of readily available PowerPoint templates and infographic templates from our website. All you have to do is look for a template that best matches your theme, subject, topic or idea and you can easily work around that template. For more specific needs, you can read on and follow the instructions on how to create infographics using PowerPoint....
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Jeff Domansky
September 11, 2014 10:26 AM
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Most 16-year-olds are focused on sports or cars or maybe even the SATs. For Tyler Millis and Arjit Kansal, two teens from Fort Meyers, Florida and New Delhi, India, respectively, their passion is PowerPoint. Yep, you read that right: PowerPoint.
The two 16-year-olds beat out 400,000 candidates from 130 countries to be named Microsoft Office Specialist World Champions— Millis in PowerPoint 2007, and Kansal in PowerPoint 2010. The 13th annual competition, sponsored by Certiport, holds a series of tests and interviews for students to show off their knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Only 123 students made it to the final round, with Millis and Kansal taking home the PowerPoint titles and $5,000 scholarships....
You don't have to have an art degree to make a beautiful Ebook! Here's how to do it in four, simple steps. You spend a lot of time making sure the content that goes into your Ebooks is unique and of high quality, right? So why wouldn’t you do the same with your Ebook design?
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Are you hankering to give your PowerPoint presentations a visual boost? Do you want to get away from the "I did this in PowerPoint look" that you (and everyone else) get from using PowerPoint's built in templates? Do you need a timeline slide or help finding graphics to illustrate your slide content?
If you answer yes to any of these questions, then take a look at these five great—and free—design tools. They can help you enhance your PowerPoint presentations and speed up the design process.
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Jeff Domansky
January 31, 2014 9:50 AM
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..While Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Google+ dominate the social landscape, Slideshare is a platform that I believe has a lot of benefits and is being underutilized by many companies.
Here are eight reasons why your company should be using Slideshare as a part of your social media marketing....
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Jeff Domansky
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September 12, 2012 10:11 PM
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Robin Good: If you are looking for a tool or service that would allow you to sync up the video of you speaking at an event with the slides that were being projected, into a seamsless, web-shareable presentation, I have put together this small collection of ten tools designed just for this. I have noted for each one whether there is a free account and how much does it cost the lowest "pro" version. Tools to synchronize your slides to your speaker video: http://pinterest.com/robingood/synchronize-slides-with-speaker-video-best-tools/ [Really good list of tools - JD]
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It's not the powerpoint, it's you. OR Rather, your graphic design skillz.