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Do You Tell Stories Like You Sing Karaoke? Here Are Three Things to Save You

Karl Gude | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Photography, Photos, Story, Slides, Writing, Lesbian, Narrative, Storytelling, Journalism, Presentations, Video, Powerpoint, Filmmaking, Campfire, Advertising, Narrate, Public Relations, Keynote, Media Narratives, Culture News

That's me, at left, listening to campfire stories long ago. "Was your grandmother a lesbian?" I asked. I was responding to a student's question ab...

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Obama's State of the Union Speech: Enhanced By PowerPoint?

Max Atkinson | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Obama, State of the Union 2012, Powerpoint, Video, Media News

Obama's a good enough communicator to know that the words in his speeches and the way he delivers them are enough on their own to get his messages across.

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About Leadership: The Use and Abuse of PowerPoint

Bernie Bulkin | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Executive Leadership, Effective Presentations, Powerpoint, Small Business America, Business News

Today we can show charts and graphs, photographs, interactive spreadsheets, and animation. Great. So how do most presenters use this new facility? By making the most boring slides imaginable.

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Great Board Meetings

Brad Feld | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Startup Investors, Startup Board, Startups, Small Business, Venture Capital, Powerpoint, Board Meetings, Small Business News

I've had a string of great board meetings lately. They all had several similar attributes.

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Political Party Has One Goal: Ban PowerPoint

The Huffington Post | Simon McCormack | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Swiss Powerpoint Party, Powerpoint Party, Anti-Powerpoint Party, Powerpoint, Powerpoint Presentation, Swiss Anti-Powerpoint Party, Video, Technology News

One political party in Switzerland thinks PowerPoint presentations are actually costing the country billions of dollars. The Anti-PowerPoint Party ...

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Lay Off the Laptop

xxxDan Treadwayxxx | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Distraction, Laptop, Education, Learning, Macbook, Powerpoint, Mulan, Farmville, Espn, George Washington University, Facebook, Diane Sieber, College News

Recently, while taking notes in class, I peered forward and saw the student in front of me playing a game on his MacBook. But something about this game was particularly peculiar.

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The Hazards Of Duke

The Atlantic | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Duke, The Atlantic, Powerpoint, Karen Owen, Caitlin Flanagan, College News

No matter what your opinion of the now notorious online "thesis" of the recent Duke graduate Karen Owen--a comprehensive and often pornographic report...

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PHOTOS: Banker Lands Interviews With Overzealous PowerPoint Presentation

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investment Banks, Business News, Citibank, Powerpoint, Analyst, Citigroup, Slidepollajax, Business News

Writing cover letters in PowerPoint apparently works wonders. An applicant for an analyst job at Citigroup scored an interview after submitting an 11...

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How to Boost Productivity Instantly, by Cutting the Crap from Presentations (Template Included) (SLIDESHOW)

Spencer Critchley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Apple Keynote, Powerpoint, Productivity, Information Design, Graphic Design, Presentations, Slidepollajax, Business News

Has anyone done a good estimate of the number of hours per year we spend applying fancy formatting to presentations? I'm willing to bet it's a terrify...

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Conference Speakers: I Can Read. Now Make Me Laugh.

Michael N. Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Youtube, Powerpoint, Presenters, Carrot Top, School Administrators, Education News

The best conference speakers aren't the ones with a ground-breaking message. The ones you remember are funny.

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Viral Video PowerPoints-Out That Ireland Means Business

John Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economy, Irish Economy, Cheese, Youtube, Global Financial Crisis, Ireland, Irish, Powerpoint, Recession, Bric, World News

After reading of a Irish government response to its financial crisis that involves free cheese (though probably better cheese the US distributed in a ...

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Anti-PowerPoint Rant Gets Colonel Kicked Out of Afghanistan

wired.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Powerpoint Rant, Afghanistan War, Powerpoint Sucks, Powerpoint, I Hate Powerpoint, Powerpoint Rant, Afghanistan, World News

Consider it a new version of death by PowerPoint. The NATO command in Afghanistan has fired a staff officer who publicly criticized its interminable b...

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Duke Student's Sex-Rating PowerPoint Goes Viral

Posted 05.25.2011

A Duke student's risque PowerPoint has firmly implanted itself in the annals of legendary internet stories for generations to come. Karen F. Owen, ...

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Army Brains: Kill PowerPoint

Wired.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unified Quest, Powerpoint, US Army Powerpoint, Internet Explorer, Power Point, Army Powerpoint, Technology News

Get us off Internet Explorer. Give us back our reconnaissance squads. Stop saying "Counterinsurgency." And enough with the PowerPoint. Hear that, Amer...

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How to Avoid Death by Presentation

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Presentation, Powerpoint, Presentation Skills, Thought-Leadership, Thought Leaders, Corporate Culture, Presentations, Afghanistan War, Business News

If you are suffering from death by PowerPoint -- or presentations in general -- here are several ways that you can simplify and improve your communications.

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PowerPoint

switched.com | By Matthew Zuras — Apr 27th 2010 at 2:30PM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Powerpoint Army, Powerpoint Military, Powerpoint, Power Point Military, Powerpoint Military Strategy, Powerpoint Nytimes Article, Power Point Army, Technology News

Of course, memos and briefings existed well before the advent of PowerPoint, or even the personal computer. But the underlying issue is not necessaril...

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Technology in the Classroom Should Inspire Students, Not Put Them to Sleep

Hillary Reinsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Powerpoint, Technology, College, Classroom, Universities, College News

The lights go dim, eyes begin to shut and the room gets quiet. Sorry kids, if you're looking for a story about the bedroom, you'll have to go elsewhere. Welcome to a college lecture hall in 2010.

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SXSWi: Will Publishers Miss The Chance To Connect With Digital Audience

Los Angeles Times | Peter Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hachette, Book Publishing, Used Books, Bloomsbury, Penguin, Bookseller, Sxsw, Ces, Internet, Swsx, Powerpoint, Las Vegas, Digital Publishing, Reading Online, Marketing, Publishers, Editorial, Ebooks, Books News

Last year I was invited to join a discussion at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival about the future of book publishing. An offshoot of the mo...

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