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Slide Presentation Contest

There is a new Slide Presentation Content - the “SlideBoom Presentation Contest 2009″
To enter, you have to create an involving presentation of 15+ slides, taking full advantage of PowerPoint animations and effects.
Contest entries are judged by a panel of industry professionals including Simon Morton of Eyeful Presentations, Geetesh Bajaj of Indezine and Shawn Toh [...]

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Five things to do when the PPT projector fails

So you’ve loaded up your killer presentation. You’ve rehearsed it. You’ve even videoed yourself, found those irritating quirks and ironed them out. You’re all ready to wow your audience, in fact. Then you press the button to start your presentation – and nothing happens. The equipment’s not working and no one knows how to fix [...]

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Props Away!

Imagine this: you go to see a play, and the actors just stand in place for the whole evening. When the big murder in the second act happens, one actor says, “Now I shoot the victim”, and another actor says, “Arrgh.”
Not very engaging, right? In fact, you’d probably leave pretty early into the “performance” – [...]

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Using PowerPoint to raise money

When you want to raise money for a good cause, how do you go about it? There are the well-worn routes such as applying to the Lottery Fund, writing begging letters to millionaires and asking for a loan from your bank (although lots of banks seem to be needing loans themselves these days).
But there is another [...]

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See yourself on camera before making a big presentation

Let’s suppose you’re a pianist. You’re booked to give a concert of a great but challenging piano piece. You show up on time, you’re immaculately dressed, and you look the part. Unfortunately, you haven’t practised that piece. You plan to play it straight from the score.

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Too much presentation pressure?

Many people dread giving a presentation. The reason is not hard to find; presentations require skill sets that many of us just haven’t built up in our day-to-day work.

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Kill your fillers – before they kill your presentation

All of us have done it at some time – and some of us do it far too often. The sad thing is, we may be unaware that we’re doing it.
I’m talking about the space filler: ‘um’, ‘er’, ‘you know’, and the like. These are like verbal crutches: they can help you out of an [...]

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PowerPoint in the Courtroom

Technology is invading the hallowed courts of law. This is particularly true in the USA, where PowerPoint is fast becoming the software of choice for the courtroom.

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Making a Presentation - Part Three

Once you have the words written and have sussed out the best way of making the presentation more interesting in the visual sense, and have assessed what facilities are available to you such as power sockets for CD players, computers for PowerPoint shows, whiteboard and so on, it is time to put together the visual [...]

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