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Death By PowerPoint? Three Ways to Revive Your Presentations!

Tech Soup

Here's something we all dread: Slide after slide loaded with text that is being "read" by the presenter. Reduce the number of slides and increase the number of interactions. Second: Edit each slide so it is easy on the eye and on the brain.

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Accel, Square Peg back Chronicle’s tool for presentations that won’t put you to sleep

TechCrunch

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 So slides essentially were an outdated formation.”

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Demystifying Artificial Intelligence for Nonprofits: Why You Should Care About AI Right Now, Not Later

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Data-Driven Storytelling : AI can analyze large datasets to identify trends and patterns, helping nonprofits craft compelling stories that highlight their impact. 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.

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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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The Openness of Slides

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The theme was about storytelling and one of the cool things we did was create a storytelling assessment rubric. Bill is an incredible storyteller and that has been the key to his fundraising success. Now, this was ten years ago, so he used Kodak slides (remember those) as his visuals. ve selected with the presentation.

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A Really Cool Thing I learned from Reading Scott Berkun's Confessions of a Public Speaker

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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7 Easy Ideas to Give Your Next Presentation Oomph

Tech Soup

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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