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Build Beautiful Charts & Graphs with Data Visualization on EveryAction

Everyaction

, or relying on (pretty ugly) charts with data estimates made in Excel or Powerpoint. Built on top of EveryAction's unparalleled reporting functionality, users can easily create pie charts, donut charts, bar graphs, line graphs, and area charts based on any criteria for data in their database.

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Death By PowerPoint? Three Ways to Revive Your Presentations!

Tech Soup

The slides serve as the anchor, but all the details can happen outside the slides, such as on the flip chart, through your own storytelling, and interactions with the audience. Third: Add charts, graphics, and animations that are relevant, and omit the gimmicky stuff. Reduce the number of slides and increase the number of interactions.

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Pecha Kucha

NCE Social Media

Pecha Kucha is a variation on your typical PowerPoint presentation. How it differs from your traditional PowerPoint presentation is that the speaker uses 20 slides and has 20 seconds per slide to speak. I gave a talk yesterday explaining Pecha Kucha to a group of nonprofit executives.

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No Sweat DIY Infographics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Microsoft PowerPoint or Publisher: Both of these old standards have layout tools that make it easy to compose your infographic (and export the final product as a graphic image). I like the Smart Art templates to help me see patterns in my data. Hubspot just published this awesome collection of infographic templates for Powerpoint.

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RESULTS: An Acronym For Nonprofit Success

Bloomerang

An acronym is a much beloved tool of English teachers and PowerPoint presenters all over the world. Few would set off blindly and chart as they go, but we refer to the hard work done by others to map the world before us and then we create our strategies from that sound foundation. R ead up on the latest research.

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How To Get Insight From Data Visualization: SHUT UP and SLOW DOWN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use survey monkey and grab the visual chart for each question and dumping each chart into its own Powerpoint slide. You have to slow down to create the charts and you really how to think about the “show step.” .” Understanding this, I can adjust and customize the curriculum level and content.

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Does Microsoft Office SmartArt Make You Smarter?

Tech Soup

I'll be speaking in a webinar, Creating Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint , on May 24 at 11 a.m. And it's brought me to a startling realization: over the course of my career, I've wasted a lot of time building visual aids for my PowerPoint presentations. As PowerPoint Ninja bluntly put it, SmartArt is dumb.