Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

Questions: So many presenters default to PowerPoint as their presentation tool. What are the pros and cons of using PowerPoint? Start by addressing the mistakes that are most pertinent for that situation and focus on improving in those areas. Sjodin: Visual aids can significantly enhance a presentation when used effectively.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2021

The anonymized survey data can be easily downloaded into Excel, PowerPoint, a PDF, and/or Word. Please help promote the 2021 Global NGO Technology Survey in your country. How to Use the Data. As open data, it can be used and republished by any person or organization worldwide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 15, 2024

However, if we look at Microsoft, applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, each has features like predictive text, grammar and style suggestions, and even data insights. You’ve probably seen the design ideas sidebar pop up in PowerPoint. It gives you ready-to-use slide templates based on the content you’re laying out.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2012

Pacific, we will be holding a live webinar that will be covering SmartArt, Creating Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint. We will then discuss PowerPoint's broadcast function , which allows you to virtually share your presentation with clients or colleagues throughout the world. , you are in for a treat.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2024

Questions: So many presenters default to PowerPoint as their presentation tool. What are the pros and cons of using PowerPoint? Start by addressing the mistakes that are most pertinent for that situation and focus on improving in those areas. Sjodin: Visual aids can significantly enhance a presentation when used effectively.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2011

It's time to add Microsoft's PowerPoint to the list. This post originally appeared on the Microsoft Unlimited Potential Blog and was written by Erica Lorraine Scheidt, TechSoup Global's Director of Marketing Communications. Typically, helmets, riding suits, gloves, and goggles are the best way to keep motorcyclists safe on the road.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

SlideShare :: slideshare.net SlideShare is ideal for featuring PowerPoint presentations about your organization’s work. Postable :: postable.com Postable allows users to easily send print cards and postcards through the postal service. Ideal for thanking donors, volunteers, and supporters.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2011

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. You can do Pecha Kucha with a live audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2013

1) PowerPoint: Yes, I know, PowerPoint is a presentation tool. But it is the quickest and easiest way to create text overlay images because you can easily compose one in PowerPoint and export this single slide as a jpg image. Make sure your text does not occupy more than five of the boxes.

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NCE Social Media

MAY 18, 2010

It includes great videos, PowerPoint files and infographics that are worth your while. Tags: Education and Training Tools hubspot infographics powerpoint slides statistics Video. Hubspot has an incredible list of social media statistics resources that you must see. Image source: Hubspot. If so please share them in our comments section.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

For teams that need precision and compliance, it’s a tool worth considering despite its steeper learning curve.     G2 Reviews     Capterra Reviews iSpring Suite iSpring Suite takes the power of PowerPoint and amplifies it for eLearning. iSpring integrates well with many LMS platforms, and its customer service is widely praised.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Microsoft PowerPoint is your program. Here are 6 tools that your nonprofit is already using that can be optimized through the cloud. >. Need to write up some website copy? Fire up Microsoft Word. Want to create a presentation for a donor meeting?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

SlideShare is a social networking site that lets you share Powerpoint presentations. My wildest dream would be for many nonprofits to upload and share powerpoint presentation (and screencasts) and we could remix each other's work - it would save us time and help build knowledge. I've been using now for six months and I'm an addict.

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.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

Make it easy for committees and leaders to access resources like PowerPoint templates. Technology puts the brand in too many people’s hands, and there is the danger they will take it in multiple directions. “Do Do a brand audit and review everything that you’re currently producing.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2013

But through creative use of PowerPoint , the deck became a three-second. President, admits he;s somewhat of a PowerPoint whiz. PowerPoint’s tools to design the animations. " Familiarity with the tool, he explained, made PowerPoint the obvious. PowerPoint file and accompanying music into a video.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When presenting , slim down to 10 PowerPoint slides or less. Provide the headline news first, with details later, and only give details if asked. You'll be surprised by how much you can say in 30 seconds. And, if you really want to Own the Room when presenting , Hellman recommends you: Avoid the podium.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

A title group contains products that serve essentially the same purpose, like PowerPoint and PowerPoint for Mac. Outlook and PowerPoint are both title groups. The Microsoft Donation Program divides products into categories called title groups. See the current list of 37. When does this two-year cycle start and end?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 12, 2021

When presenting , slim down to 10 PowerPoint slides or less. Provide the headline news first, with details later, and only give details if asked. You'll be surprised by how much you can say in 30 seconds. And, if you really want to Own the Room when presenting , Hellman recommends you: Avoid the podium.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Start with a diagram using one of many templates available online, such as this one from Figma or any one of Microsoft’s PowerPoint templates. This means identifying each component, its purpose, and how it interacts with your other tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I'm also trying to move from powerpoint to wikitation. I'm not the only one who is making the shift from solitary powerpoint to the more social wikitations. Community groups, nonprofits and other entities are embracing Web 2.0 Let me define the term: Alan Levine, CogdogBlog, invented the term and also has some excellent examples here.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2020

When presenting , slim down to 10 PowerPoint slides or less. Provide the headline news first, with details later, and only give details if asked. You'll be surprised by how much you can say in 30 seconds. And, if you really want to Own the Room when presenting , Hellman recommends you: Avoid the podium.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

View more PowerPoint from Amy Sample Ward. Tool-Specific tools: Twitalyzer. Low-Cost tools: Hootsuite Pro. Small Act’s Thrive. Sprout Social. DIY Social Media Management.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 25, 2021

This isn’t a powerpoint presentation—it’s a dialogue between you and the prospect. Speaking too fast gives your listener whiplash, and can come across as manufactured rather than personal. Try to think of your pitch as a conversation with a friend. It’s inherently personal, and that’s good.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 20, 2020

When presenting , slim down to 10 PowerPoint slides or less. Provide the headline news first, with details later, and only give details if asked. You'll be surprised by how much you can say in 30 seconds. And, if you really want to Own the Room when presenting , Hellman recommends you: Avoid the podium.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Most offices uses Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Exchange, and Outlook, why not reap the benefits of those services in the cloud and cut IT costs? Lync 2013 is included in Office 365 , Microsoft’s cloud-based software and storage, which was recently made FREE to nonprofits worldwide. Administrative Monitoring.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

It's not enough to review your notecards and double-check your PowerPoint. There is lots of good advice in Bob Kulhan 's book, Getting To Yes And , One of my favorites is his tips for making a presentation. Kulhan recommends you follow these five tips : Warm Up. Give yourself time to get your body and mind ready for peak performance.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 29, 2021

An acronym is a much beloved tool of English teachers and PowerPoint presenters all over the world. They cancel down core ideas and are remarkably useful aids to recall advice. So here’s why reflecting on the acronym “RESULTS” is so worthwhile in our efforts to achieve nonprofit success! R ead up on the latest research.

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Candid

JUNE 20, 2023

Download or export your search results as an image, PowerPoint deck, or PDF file to use in presentations or to create a snapshot in time for later reference. View the overall demographic makeup of employees in the social sector, including leaders, co-leaders, board members, senior staff, and staff.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 24, 2022

No presenter who just reads bullet points off a PowerPoint instead does it because they want their audience to eagerly contemplate running from the room. Reading a PowerPoint feels like an easy way to tell your audience all the info they want and be sure not to forget anything important. Stop Being Boring (It Isn’t Worth It).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Here's one of my absolute favorite-of-all-time slideshows that does this effectively: it's called You Suck at PowerPoint. presentations microsoft digital storytelling Powerpoint Slideshare' To do this, you'll want to use the same or related fonts, colors, and imagery across all your slides. Image 1 : Damon Nofar.

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The MatrixFiles

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This could be a template for your: newsletter, PowerPoint presentations, meeting pages, PDFs, press releases, or social media posts. We live in an era where new and fresh is not just preferred but expected. Keep your brand and assets fresh by auditing and updating one or more of your most-used templates.

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2012

I'll be speaking in a webinar, Creating Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint , on May 24 at 11 a.m. And it's brought me to a startling realization: over the course of my career, I've wasted a lot of time building visual aids for my PowerPoint presentations. As PowerPoint Ninja bluntly put it, SmartArt is dumb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2013

For many of your text overlay needs, you can easily create them in PowerPoint and save as a jpg. You will also need to resize your image depending on what channel and how you plan to use it. You could compose the text overlay using PicMonkey if you want more elaborate design and graphic elements than PowerPoint).

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TechImpact

AUGUST 19, 2014

A CRM is not intuitive like a mobile app, and is not as familiar as Microsoft Word, Excel, or Powerpoint. A CRM is a large and robust piece of software that has the potential to run an entire business off of. And there are some nonprofits that do!

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

No one wants to sit through an hour-long PowerPoint presentation! Encourage them to try starting their PowerPoint or run any supporting video they may be using. The more information they try to pack into their sessions, the less the audience can absorb and process. Not Managing Attendee Expectations.

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fusionSpan

OCTOBER 30, 2024

PJ Sawchuk advised creating rubrics, scorecards, or collaborative PowerPoints that digest user conversations into reusable resources for communicating with broader teams. Artifacts like these ensure the message remains consistent, helping leaders understand, communicate, and evangelize the technology’s value.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Accessibility guidelines for PowerPoint (this information is also very useful and applicable to all presentation formats). Familiarize yourself with preparing presentation decks optimized for accessibility. Tips for making documents more accessible. Helpful Pressbook for Google Slides. Use plain language. Use inclusive language.

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