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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 So slides essentially were an outdated formation.”

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The Social Life of PowerPoint Presentations (or why I really love SlideShare)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Prezi is releasing new video features to make virtual teaching more exciting

The Verge

You may know Prezi as an innovative PowerPoint-esque software that lays information out as an animated map rather than sequential slides. But the company has expanded in the past year, with a new focus on incorporating both live and recorded video into presentations.

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Making Data Visualizations: A Survival Guide And Other Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

1) Data Visualization Survival Guide : This resource (including the 176 slides powerpoint deck) was suggested by Devon Smith. 2) The Functional Art : This is the title of a book by Alberto Cairo who also teaches infographics at the University of Miami. Here’s what I discovered. (1)

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Free Webinar: Sharing Trainer's Social Media Bag of Tricks and Secrets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I was immediately thrown into a situation of dynamic teaching and learning. Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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8 Seconds To Be Meaningful

Eric Jacobsen Blog

He teaches you three key ingredients: Focus : How to say less with more meaning. When presenting , slim down to 10 PowerPoint slides or less. Paul Hellman answers these questions and gives you 100 fast and actionable tactics to make your eights seconds meaningful. It's all in his new book, You've Got 00:00:08 Seconds.

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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SXSW Poetry Slam Slides View more presentations from kanter. Can teach field to use. Teach chapters to document their own disasters on their own newsrooms so we can aggregate a national picture of data of how much the org does in a day when you won’t hear a word about it. The panel will be in room 18BCD at 5: 00 PM.

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