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Death By PowerPoint? Three Ways to Revive Your Presentations!

Tech Soup

The slides serve as the anchor, but all the details can happen outside the slides, such as on the flip chart, through your own storytelling, and interactions with the audience. Third: Add charts, graphics, and animations that are relevant, and omit the gimmicky stuff. Reduce the number of slides and increase the number of interactions.

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Office for iPad now has mouse and trackpad support

The Verge

The software maker promised it would update its Office iPadOS apps earlier this year, and the updates are now live in the App Store for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Office for iPad now lets you use the built-in trackpad on Apple’s Magic Keyboard to navigate around text, photos, and other objects in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

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No Sweat DIY Infographics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Microsoft PowerPoint or Publisher: Both of these old standards have layout tools that make it easy to compose your infographic (and export the final product as a graphic image). I like the Smart Art templates to help me see patterns in my data. Hubspot just published this awesome collection of infographic templates for Powerpoint.

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Toxic Powerpoint

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A great article on SociableMedia about how to address the symptoms of toxic powerpoint which include: * Bullet point asphyxiation that suffocates dialogue with an endless stream of text read off a screen. Chart attack numbs its victims with numbers at the expense of narrative.

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Pecha Kucha

NCE Social Media

Pecha Kucha is a variation on your typical PowerPoint presentation. How it differs from your traditional PowerPoint presentation is that the speaker uses 20 slides and has 20 seconds per slide to speak. I gave a talk yesterday explaining Pecha Kucha to a group of nonprofit executives.

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Making Data Visualizations: A Survival Guide And Other Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I did a quick scan of data visualization resources to look for practical advice on the process of thinking visually and some technical information on what chart to select and data storytelling. 1) Data Visualization Survival Guide : This resource (including the 176 slides powerpoint deck) was suggested by Devon Smith.

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How To Get Insight From Data Visualization: SHUT UP and SLOW DOWN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use survey monkey and grab the visual chart for each question and dumping each chart into its own Powerpoint slide. You have to slow down to create the charts and you really how to think about the “show step.” .” Understanding this, I can adjust and customize the curriculum level and content.

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