Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Harry's Powerpoint

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I showed him the basics of how to extract the photos from the camera, how to insert them into PowerPoint, and some basic instruction on PowerPoint. He has been taking photos and then using them to illustrate a digital diary. Harry is 8 years old). I walked away from him for about 15 minutes.

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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. I've been using now for six months and I'm an addict.

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It is difficult to let go of the old ways. from powerpoint to wikitation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm also trying to move from powerpoint to wikitation. I'm not the only one who is making the shift from solitary powerpoint to the more social wikitations. Community groups, nonprofits and other entities are embracing Web 2.0 Let me define the term: Alan Levine, CogdogBlog, invented the term and also has some excellent examples here.

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Toxic Powerpoint

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A great article on SociableMedia about how to address the symptoms of toxic powerpoint which include: * Bullet point asphyxiation that suffocates dialogue with an endless stream of text read off a screen. Chart attack numbs its victims with numbers at the expense of narrative.

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An Easy Recipe for Making Text Overlay Images

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For many of your text overlay needs, you can easily create them in PowerPoint and save as a jpg. You will also need to resize your image depending on what channel and how you plan to use it. You could compose the text overlay using PicMonkey if you want more elaborate design and graphic elements than PowerPoint).

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Embedding A YouTube Video in Power Point

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You need Powerpoint 2007 and a live Internet connection in order to make it work. This trick, along with being able to Tweet from Powerpoint is definitely going into my Trainer's Bag of Social Media Tricks. I just discovered a way to embed the video directly in a slide. I'm knee deep in creating some new workshop curriculum.

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The Visual Language of PowerPoint

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My strongest learning style is visual and perhaps that why I've always been attracted to using images to make a point in powerpoint and graphjc organizers.