Using PowerPoint

Sele Training shares PowerPoint tips .

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PowerPoint Designer

Blair Frank explains how to use Microsoft's new PowerPoint Designer feature.

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PowerPoint URLs for Cooperation

Michael Ricnas reports that Microsoft has purchased LiveLoop to add its web retrieval technology to PowerPoint. It will allow presenters to distribute a URL with a presentation to remote collaborators, allowing them to edit video presentations remotely.

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Technology for Public Talks

Brian Croxall shares his tools for public talks .

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Prezi

Don Butterworth, a tech savvy librarian, recommends Prezi as an alternative to PowerPoint. I have been amazed by dynamic Prezi presentations. I have also attended workshops that were complete failures because the presenter relied on their Web-based Prezi. As the presenters discovered, if there is no Internet connectivity at the location, then the Web-based Prezi is not available. My recommendation is to base the Prezi on a PowerPoint, so that the PowerPoint is available as a backup should the Internet be unavailable.

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What follows is an example of the techniques for creating a Prezi presentation:

 

Prezi technology can be misused in the same way that PowerPoint can be misused:

PowerPoint and Presentation Skills

Stanley K. Ridgely explains the importance of mastering PowerPoint for those doing frequent business presentations.

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Slideshare

SlideShare.net is a presentation and document sharing online environment for distributing information.
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Flickr As A Source Of Creative Commons Photos

Jason B. Jones shares Five Ways to Use Flickr to Make Better Slides. In 2009 he had shared how Flickr can searched for photos which have been released to the Creative Commons, allowing them to be used without copyright royalties as long as each photo received appropriate attribution.

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