Everyone uses
PowerPoint, but how effective is your presentation at meeting
the goals you’ve outlined? A great presentation is more than
just a slideshow–it’s about using PowerPoint to its maximum
potential to get your message across to your audience. That’s
the PowerPoint Predicament. Tom Bunzel reveals how to conceive,
plan, develop, and deliver truly effective business, academic,
and inspirational communications, not just PowerPoint
slideshows. Discover how to motivate your audience by:
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Getting beyond bullet points to tell a story that touches
your audience at the deepest levels
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Mastering proven principles of effective communication
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Planning, organizing, and designing every presentation for
maximum impact
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Making sure every word, image, effect, and slide exists for
a good reason
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Creating charts and diagrams that instantly make your point
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Using animation, navigation, video, and audio to drive home
your message, not distract from it
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Avoiding mistakes that lead to boring presentations: no more
“death by PowerPoint”
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Building Web and self-running kiosk presentations that
really work
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Leveraging the rest of Microsoft Office to create even
better presentations
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Using third-party add-ons to communicate with PowerPoint
even more effectively: video capture, flowcharting, DVD
authoring, rehearsal, and more
When you present, you’re on the line:
your credibility, your career, your future as a leader. Use your
software and imagination to its full potential–with this book!
Covers PowerPoint 2007, 2003, XP, 2000,
99, and 97– for Windows or Mac PowerPoint users
Tom Bunzel is a leading presentation
expert. He has appeared on Tech TV’s “Call for Help,” was a
featured speaker at InfoComm and PowerPoint LIVE, and has served
as a technology coach for companies ranging from Iomega to the
Neuroscience Education Institute, where he provided personal
PowerPoint instruction to physicians. He offers live seminars
via streaming media, and he has been published in Presentations
Magazine. His books include Sams Teach Yourself PowerPoint 2003
in 24 Hours and Digital Video on the PC. He updated the Visual
QuickStart Guide to PowerPoint 2002/2001 for Windows and Mac.
The book companion CD-ROM contains
numerous PowerPoint presentations and other examples from the
book, two sample chapters from Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond
Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create
Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire, and trial
software from Instant Effects (OfficeFX), Serious Magic (Ovation
and Vlog It!), and TechSmith (Camtasia and Snag It).