TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

In my teardown for Encore’s pitch deck this week, for example (TechCrunch+ subscription required), the company starts with a team slide — that’s bold, and it works for some companies, but not for others. Many, probably most, of the people I work with haven’t given enough thought to the order of the slides.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

We’ll show you how to add notes to PowerPoint so that you have your talking points at your fingertips. You don’t have to wing it when presenting a slideshow.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 15, 2022

Adding videos to PowerPoint presentations can really help to enhance the slides. Keep reading to learn how to embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

But that’s just the start: the real power of Mmhmm comes in the way it lets you easily manipulate slides, backgrounds, and your own image — either for fun or for business reasons. You can post slides that appear over your shoulder and advance them with a tap. For people who want to stream Powerpoint instead of Fortnite.

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Tech Soup

JULY 3, 2012

During our webinar on May 24, Creating Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint , we covered key points on effective presentations in PowerPoint. One of my favorite pieces of advice is to remember that your economy of language is incredibly important when creating your slides. Meredith Farkas, Avoiding the Idea Graveyard.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

Lastly, check out the various applications that LinkedIn integrates with – for example, you can pull in RSS feeds from your blog or the organization’s website, have your slide shows appear on your profile, and more. View more PowerPoint from Amy Sample Ward. Mastering social networking as a volunteer. What do you think?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Some investors say you should always put the Team slide first, while others say you should save it until the end. Some say you need to include a slide about the problem you’re solving, while others say there are no such things as problems, only opportunities. Work from big to small. no images or pretty typefaces yet.

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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. it has definitely improved my slide shows.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

You would expect the co-founder of a startup that improves on traditional slide presentations to hate tools like PowerPoint. The first is that creating slides is time consuming because many presentation tools expect users to be visual designers, and most are not. So slides essentially were an outdated formation.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

Now, this was ten years ago, so he used Kodak slides (remember those) as his visuals. Of course, he gave attribution to all his funders, showing a slide of the project they funded and often including a logo. He mentioned that at one point he was getting calls from funders asking, "Bill, how can I get into your slide show?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

I just discovered a way to embed the video directly in a slide. You need Powerpoint 2007 and a live Internet connection in order to make it work. This trick, along with being able to Tweet from Powerpoint is definitely going into my Trainer's Bag of Social Media Tricks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

A Slide From Downes Presentation Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. I downloaded the powerpoint and browsed it quickly. This slide caught my attention and I took a screen capture. I'm assuming that Stephen Downeshas licensed this presentation under CC by NC and that extends to screen captures from Powerpoint?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I'm focusing on these areas now: The presentation itself - the slides, the storytelling, the content. I used to have a phobia about remote control slide clickers because the first time I used one I didn't notice that the button was on the bottom. I wave my hands when I talk and I was advancing slides when I wasn't suppose to.

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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. I got about 3 slides in when I realized that my brain no longer operates that way. Community groups, nonprofits and other entities are embracing Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

I use survey monkey and grab the visual chart for each question and dumping each chart into its own Powerpoint slide. Old Way – Not Visual Thinking – Automatically Create Visual for Every Survey Question on Separate Powerpoint Slide. I thought was done!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Include Only One Key Point per Slide. Here's why: Slides with too much verbiage will decrease the interest of your audience. List ye ol' bullet points on separate slides like Damon Nofar does here: 2. Have a Bold Opening Slide to Get the Audience's Interest Early. Pay Attention to the 3-Second Rule!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

These are my powerpoint slides from the Screencasting Session at NTC. I've put the presentation (and almost all my other presentations) into Slide Share. If you didn't write down the wiki, it's here and if you didn't get a hard copy of the Idealware article, it's here. no more than 3.5 There's some execellent content there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

1) Data Visualization Survival Guide : This resource (including the 176 slides powerpoint deck) was suggested by Devon Smith. The slides that resonated with me were the principles (slides 19-29), but especially like the advice in Slide 26 (above) about “sexy charts.”

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

New Cameo feature in PowerPoint. Microsoft is also bringing a new Cameo feature to PowerPoint that lets you integrate a Teams camera into your presentation slide deck. Image: Microsoft. Microsoft is also bringing Microsoft Teams to Apple CarPlay this month, so you can be part of Teams calls while driving.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Google Workplace (the recently rebranded G Suite, which encompasses Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, and Calendar) has offered compatibility with Office files from Word, PowerPoint, and Excel for some time.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

PowerPoint may still dominate the landscape for presentations in many people’s minds, but some might say that legacy status also makes Microsoft’s software ripe for disruption. Pitch, a presentation startup from Wunderlist’s founders, raises $30M more to take on PowerPoint. Slides just happens to be one format.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

SXSW Poetry Slam Slides View more presentations from kanter. Today, I am moderating a panel at SXSW about Social Media Nonprofit ROI in the format of a poetry slam. The panel will be in room 18BCD at 5: 00 PM. The description: What works and rhymes? Introduction by Beth Kanter Poem Welcome!

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

In a lot of the pitch deck teardowns , I get stumped by a certain slide, even though I am 99% sure that when a founder uses it to pitch a VC, they will give a little bit of additional context that “unlocks” the slide and helps it make sense. Slide 6 from Forethought’s pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. PowerPoint has over one billion installs and 500 million users alone, thanks to Microsoft’s longtime bundling of Office with certain Windows editions. healthcare) to suggest storylines, presentations, and slides.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The company liked to dress up its own reports in pharmaceutical companies’ logos, to use the present tense when the future tense would be more appropriate, and to reiterate its favorite buzzwords in PowerPoint slide after PowerPoint slide. Runs” is present tense and indicates that the tests are currently happening.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

delivers the best of both worlds, offering great keynote sessions led by Amanda Rose, Founder of Twestival, but in an unconference way with no PowerPoint, 15 minute leads, and open questions and dialogue for fantastic conversations. Photos of any whiteboards are also important along with any slides that were presented. NonProfit 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations. It also offers groups where members can share slide decks. Be sure to check out slide 13 that answers the question, What Can We Measure for Web2.0?" There's even an NpTech group that has to date 115 slideshows and 31 members.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Helpful Pressbook for Google Slides. Accessibility guidelines for PowerPoint (this information is also very useful and applicable to all presentation formats). Include your speaking points on a slide so people can choose to read or listen. Describe the visuals on your slide. Include key takeaways as text on a slide.

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The Verge

APRIL 23, 2021

Record a slide show with narration in PowerPoint. XLOOKUP, an Excel feature that lets you find things in a table or range by row. Dynamic array support in Excel, which has new functions for dynamic arrays in spreadsheets.

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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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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

Based on the spirit of the German industrial standard, Grandview looks like it would work well in PowerPoint slides in particular. Much like the signs, this font is designed to be highly legible, with some tweaks to make it more comfortable for long-form reading.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

But Lance Wade, defense attorney for Elizabeth Holmes, was able to produce minutes from a meeting, a Powerpoint presentation, and old emails that made Rosendorff look less reliable. What does seem more questionable is a Powerpoint deck from April 2014 that Rosendorff approved. But not a lot less reliable. Wade asked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2006

In a post titled " How To Manage The PowerPoint Presentation Process From Conception to Rehearsal To Handouts " Ellen Finkelstein, author of How To Do Anything With PowerPoint stresses that "Your PowerPoint file is not your presentation; what you say before an audience is your presentation."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2006

All we need are the PowerPoint slides to complete our virtual experience. Update: Nancy reports that she didn't wear the purple PJs and here PPT slides can be found here. There was a tip in the comments on how to compress PPT slides. I think she is wearing her purple pajamas, but not sure. Here's Nick Noake's remix.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2012

Watch the video here or download Marnie Webb and Paul van Haver's PowerPoint presentation, We are “Big Data” (and so can you!). Their slides are also available via SlideShare here. Watch the video here or download Dave Coplin's PowerPoint presentation, Big Data, Machine Learning and You. the privacy issues.

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