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Death By PowerPoint? Three Ways to Revive Your Presentations!

Tech Soup

Here's something we all dread: Slide after slide loaded with text that is being "read" by the presenter. Or we go to the other extreme and create a presentation full of images, animations, and more information than any human mind can handle. Reduce the number of slides and increase the number of interactions.

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5 Tips For Making An Effective Presentation

Eric Jacobsen Blog

It's not enough to review your notecards and double-check your PowerPoint. Give yourself time to get your body and mind ready for peak performance. You are not bound by slides. Your slides are there to support you, not vice versa. Kulhan recommends you follow these five tips : Warm Up. Be Yourself.

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Guest Post: Maintaining a connection with pandemic-inactive volunteers

Twenty Hats

This addition is a slide show of photographs that the volunteers email to me. My favorite addition was a film clip I used as the finale for the first slide show — a 70ish volunteer tap dancing! For both shows, I used PowerPoint to create the slides and captions. Each presentation was about 8 minutes long.

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7 Tips on Asking for Donations — It’s Intimidating, We Get It [Updated]

NonProfit Hub

Research Your Donors to Read Their Minds. The words you want them to say: “ Wow, it’s like he read my mind! ”. In other words, understand your donor base so well it’s like you’ve read their minds. Then you won’t need slides, and you can focus instead on not being boring. How do you get to that point? Boring feels safe.

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Five Tips For Making A Presentation

Eric Jacobsen Blog

It's not enough to review your notecards and double-check your PowerPoint. Give yourself time to get your body and mind ready for peak performance. You are not bound by slides. Your slides are there to support you, not vice versa. Kulhan recommends you follow these five tips : Warm Up. Be Yourself.

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A Slide From Downes Recognition Factor Presentation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A Slide From Downes Presentation Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. I downloaded the powerpoint and browsed it quickly. This slide caught my attention and I took a screen capture. I'm assuming that Stephen Downeshas licensed this presentation under CC by NC and that extends to screen captures from Powerpoint?

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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. Old Way – Not Visual Thinking – Automatically Create Visual for Every Survey Question on Separate Powerpoint Slide. I thought was done!

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